September 2007: Red Wine
A quick recap:
Wine 1 Cusumano Nero D'avola 2005 Sicily, Italy $13.39
Wine 2 Chateau Greysac 2003 Medoc (Gironde) France $20.00
Wine 3 Ecco Domani 2004 Chianti Tuscany region, Italy $12.25
Wine 4 Wrongo Dongo 2005 Jumilla Red wine, Spain $11.99
Wine 5 Vega Sindoa 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon-Tempranillo; Navarra, Spain $13.90
Wines 4 and 5 tied for first place with 6 votes. Wine 3 finished in third place with 5 votes. Wine 2 finished in second place. Wine 1 brought up the rear.
Memorable quotes from the evening:
Wine 1 Cusumano Nero D'avola 2005 Sicily, Italy $13.39
1. Serve with a cheap spaghetti dinner
2. Lots of tannins and peppery
3. Fruity
4. Makes me cough
5. Serve with chocolate, not cheese
6. Light with a slight alcohol scent
7. Serve when not trying to impress
8. Buy when I only have $5 to get my drink on.
9. Get’s ‘r done
Wine 2 Chateau Greysac 2003 Medoc (Gironde) France $20.00
1. I would drink this if “I had hippies over.”
2. It smells earthy, like Boulder, CO
3. Dark burgundy in color
4. Serve if hunting with Dick Cheney
5. Smells like grandma’s house
6. Nutty
Wine 3 Ecco Domani 2004 Chianti Tuscany region, Italy $12.25
1. Too smooth
2. Nice and light
3. Almost no smell
4. Layered and complex
5. Soapy
6. Serve with dinner when having friends over
7. Serve after everyone is already drunk
Wine 4 Wrongo Dongo 2005 Jumilla Red wine, Spain $11.99
1. Burns like cinnamon
2. Smells like a pugilist
3. Warrior-like
4. Smell is non-existent
5. Pungent
6. Something somebody at my stage in their career would buy
7. Naïve, innocent
8. Serve at a frat party
9. Gets you drunk real fast
10. Serve with breakfast, lunch and dinner
11. Not a sipping wine, serve with food
12. Earthy, dry, gritty
Wine 5 Vega Sindoa 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon-Tempranillo; Navarra, Spain $13.90
1. Dark red in color
2. Tobacco tasting
3. Serve with beef
4. Smoking loonish
5. Thick w/a long life on the tongue
6. Smells like some sense of motion
7. Smooth, deep and balanced
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Monday, July 9, 2007
July 07 Celebrating America with Lagers Foreign and Otherwise
Bavaria Holland (Netherlands): The favorite
Old Scratch (Colorado)
Asahi Super Dry (Japan):
Stella Artois (Belgium)
Grolsch (Netherlands)
Molson Canadian Lager (Canada)
Kingfisher (India)
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
March 2007 - Cheese
1. Chauvre de Wal-Mart
a. Best thing ever from Wal-Mart
b. Touched by hands of sweat shop workers
c. Tangy
d. Well-cut and minty
2. Camembert
a. Better texture than brie
b. Not distinctive
3. Goat Gouda (Dutch)
a. First place w/6 votes
b. Ummmm
c. Creamy
d. Awesome
e. Tremendous
f. Buttery
g. Nutty
4. Smoked Gouda
a. It’s very creamy
b. “It’s good, not as good as last one.”
5. Cheddar something or other
a. About 3.5 votes
b. Cheddar, as cheddar should be
c. Good w/apples
d. Powerful
e. Full-bodied
6. Spanish Manchego
a. No comments, but good for 3 first place votes
7. Royal Stinky Butt
a. 2nd Place
b. It’s like the plate farted
c. Potent
d. An athletic cheese
e. Make out before you eat this cheese
f. Like licking the inside of a locker room
a. Best thing ever from Wal-Mart
b. Touched by hands of sweat shop workers
c. Tangy
d. Well-cut and minty
2. Camembert
a. Better texture than brie
b. Not distinctive
3. Goat Gouda (Dutch)
a. First place w/6 votes
b. Ummmm
c. Creamy
d. Awesome
e. Tremendous
f. Buttery
g. Nutty
4. Smoked Gouda
a. It’s very creamy
b. “It’s good, not as good as last one.”
5. Cheddar something or other
a. About 3.5 votes
b. Cheddar, as cheddar should be
c. Good w/apples
d. Powerful
e. Full-bodied
6. Spanish Manchego
a. No comments, but good for 3 first place votes
7. Royal Stinky Butt
a. 2nd Place
b. It’s like the plate farted
c. Potent
d. An athletic cheese
e. Make out before you eat this cheese
f. Like licking the inside of a locker room
February 2007 - Tequila
1st Place w/9 votes: Don Eduardo Anejo (our most expensive bottle):
“Aged in a godly-bourbon barrel”
2nd Place w/3 votes: Patron Anejo (second-most expensive bottle):
“Peppery w/out bourbon-ickiness”
“Naked and arrested”
“Less of an alcohol flavor”
3rd Place: Two-Finger Silver (second-cheapest bottle)
“Aged in bottom of a purse”
“Aged in orange plastic jack-o-lantern “
“Candycorn, butterscotch tasting”
4th Pace: Jose Cuervo: (cheapest)
“Tastes like a Saturday night”
“Smoother than expectations”
“Not as cheap as expected”
5th Place: Sauza Reporado Hornitos (median in price)
“With a name like Hornitos, it should have been better”
“Awful”
“Terrible”
“Wet sock”
“Disgusting”
“Blend of beer and tequila”
“Alcohol abuse”
“Aged in a godly-bourbon barrel”
2nd Place w/3 votes: Patron Anejo (second-most expensive bottle):
“Peppery w/out bourbon-ickiness”
“Naked and arrested”
“Less of an alcohol flavor”
3rd Place: Two-Finger Silver (second-cheapest bottle)
“Aged in bottom of a purse”
“Aged in orange plastic jack-o-lantern “
“Candycorn, butterscotch tasting”
4th Pace: Jose Cuervo: (cheapest)
“Tastes like a Saturday night”
“Smoother than expectations”
“Not as cheap as expected”
5th Place: Sauza Reporado Hornitos (median in price)
“With a name like Hornitos, it should have been better”
“Awful”
“Terrible”
“Wet sock”
“Disgusting”
“Blend of beer and tequila”
“Alcohol abuse”
November 2006 - Champagne
1. Segura Viudas, Brut Reserva (Spain), about $25
a. Multi-layered, not too sweet, right amount of bubbles
b. Yeasty, bubbly, tastes expensive
c. Smooth & nicely dry
d. Miller High Life that’s gone stale
2. Tott’s Extra Dry (California), about
a. Sweet, clean-tasitng
b. Too sweet, not so bubbly
c. Ephemeral, Is it a diet champagne?
3. Domaine Ste. Michelle, Blanc de Blancs (Washington State), about $10-12
a. Taste is subtle and backloaded, a bit underwhelming
b. Extra-dry and crisp
c. Like Woodchuck Draft Cider/dentist-like
a. Multi-layered, not too sweet, right amount of bubbles
b. Yeasty, bubbly, tastes expensive
c. Smooth & nicely dry
d. Miller High Life that’s gone stale
2. Tott’s Extra Dry (California), about
a. Sweet, clean-tasitng
b. Too sweet, not so bubbly
c. Ephemeral, Is it a diet champagne?
3. Domaine Ste. Michelle, Blanc de Blancs (Washington State), about $10-12
a. Taste is subtle and backloaded, a bit underwhelming
b. Extra-dry and crisp
c. Like Woodchuck Draft Cider/dentist-like
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