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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 30, 2010 - 02:21pm PT
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I wish my tastes were not so expensive, but once you try the good stuff, it's hard to go back.
The thing that gets me is the value. I recently had some top end Washington wine at about fifty bucks a bottle. It was very good but typical: Lush fruit, soft tannins, lots of oak. For fifty bucks I could have gotten any number of unique, highly acclaimed Italian wines that would blow away the local stuff. This is true also on the lower end wines, with much more variety.
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Anywhere I like
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Jun 30, 2010 - 03:39pm PT
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on California wines in CA... bottle of 2005 Jordan on the Zodiac on top of the gray circle. pair that with some greenery and some sheesh and a can of Chef, and your life kicks ass.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Jun 30, 2010 - 03:52pm PT
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i had a binge a few years back where my snout was glued to the smart end of a space bag.
you see, i was denied the breast feeding opportunity in my infancy. so i could not crack my psychological connection to the wine bladder.
many hours spent on my back.
i would sort thru my vomit puddles, picking out the little pieces of hope and discarding all of the sorrow.
my favorite was cuvee blanc. the shite was so sweet. it joined me on my travels for a few years. Franzia was the vinyard, or rather the warehouse that produced this product. i not sure if it resided in california.
where did i put my thought?
if you find it, spend it well please.
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 30, 2010 - 04:59pm PT
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i disobeyed my wife and spent $50 a couple times on inexpensive sauterne. the bin next door had it for $280. product of the "noble rot" fungus.
i smuggled one into alaska to pay off my fishing guide/brother and the other was fittingly consumed at a hollywood bowl performance of the sibelius violin concerto. after mariko tasted some, the rules changed.
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nature
climber
Tucson, AZ
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Jun 30, 2010 - 05:23pm PT
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next thing you know P. Envy will be busting out freeze dried margaritas instead of the real deal.
n00b
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Babarian i like your sense!
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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based on my wine sense you gotta love the label!
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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UNDER their cabin is a cellar. you descend soft plank stairs into the earth and enter thru a wood slab door with a little stain glass window.
once in, there is a single decrepid light bulb hanging from the ceiling by a noose. pull the chain and have a seat at the small and lonely table in the middle. all the wine racks are empty. the stone foundation walls bear moss and somewhere in the corner, a drip drops.
the beams overhead are hand hewn and thus tell a thousand stories of love's hardship.
my good friend sorenson pulls a tap that sticks from the face of an old frigidaire. into two copper goblets flows his home-brewed barley wine.
we sit across the table and subtly change the coarse of mankind thru small talk.
eeking out an existence, i.
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Norwegian wrote that and I am telling him and the world right now that I'm stealing that passage for my own use, changing just enough to where people will think I wrote it and becoming all famous and sh#t in the process.
JL
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pc
climber
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I'm so lite...
I'm partial to Pinot Noir's from Santa Cruz mountain vineyards. David Bruce, et al.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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largo i would be honored by your thievery.
no doubt, according to your chivalry you would wear my thoughts much better than i.
for i am wont to fill the shoes of a socially obscure and destitute.
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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^^^ that's nice to see! now, where ever that tasting room was, it's memory will bring a smile
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mrtropy
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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Pouring for Micheal David Winery at Bear Creek with the Cliff bar girls who were next to us.
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