Posted by Jack Keller's WineBlog in General, OtherMar 12th, 2009 | No Comments
Some years back Tom Asp was good enough not only to share his golden chanterelle mushroom wine recipe, but also to send me some dried golden chanterelle mushrooms so I could make the wine myself. I not only made the wine, but relished it so much I would not waste any by entering it in competitions.... I recently found some dried golden chanterelle mushrooms at a specialty market in San Antonio and decided to make the wine again. It smells wonderful fermenting. With eternal thanks to Tom, I'll share the further tweaked recipe. Read more....An additional 124 songs have been added to the list, these starting with letters N through T. The next entry should finish off the alphabet. Read more....
Posted by Ben in 2004, General, Other, petite sirahMar 6th, 2009 | No Comments
Review: The 2004 Chez Ray Petit Sirah comes from Lodi, CA, fresh grapes. In the glass, it is a deep red, almost opaque in the middle, moving to medium red at the edges. Quite unusual for such color after a few years in the bottle.
Aroma is oddly piquant, bringing your nose into what seems like a massive explosion at a perfume factory housed in a barnyard. Weird stuff indeed. The perfume is flowery and violet, but like you're actually inside the flower, not smelling its aroma.
On the palate, this is a rounder, richer, gentler version of the aromas, rolling and gliding along your tongue. Few acids; fewer tannins. But the pure concentration causes this to linger.
I want to try it again, so that is three stars on the
Spirit of Wine scale. A plus is added for its exquisite oddity.
Posted by Ben in 2008, General, Other, malolacticMar 5th, 2009 | No Comments
All in carboy, the 2008 vintage is sitting at room temperature for a few weeks, letting
malolactic fermentation take hold.
