Holiday Season Feelings

i thought of my little pet project today after sipping the very best French Malbec (ah the french) at Liberty Wines.

i do still love wine very much.

i will have a lot to say this up and coming holiday season !

cheers

-BD

Just Getting My Feet Wet

Hey Folks, thanks for the invite! Great posts so far.

I'll be contributing, once I've done some more sampling.
Going to send Alyssa an invite also.
See ya on Tuesday if not before.

Jesse

What Are You Doin' Fer the Rest of Your Life?

Jean Bousquet malbec '07, 13.8% alc. Altitude: 1,200 meters.

Full rich fruity over-the-top dense plummy blackberry port-like proofing bread with chocolaty brandied cherry.

Serve this at your next job interview, or drink it when it's a boy, or heck, when it's a girl...

Rating: Single and childless.

Feels like: 4.2

-J. Floorburn

Many a Goode Olde Tyme Had By All

Nary a goode tyme wasted.  Come all ye who doth spendeth the goode tyme with thy friends and eateth all the lasagna. Cheers be to the future of our kynde, on the morrow may ye be guided by goode wine and necessary whimsy and voteth for thy mayor carefully, and with much humility and chagrin, as the Olympix cometh to towne. Not once, not twice, but thrice now hath we the opportunity to thwarth yon evil. Let us voteth and retire to breaketh a fast perhaps with pancakes?

-J. Floorburn

you still gotta pay your damn terasen bill

hardy's
riesling & gewurztraminer
australlia 2007

jumped right off the bus into the ceder cottage looking for a something to quench my working class thirst. two days before payday in the midst of a budgetary shitstorm (i.e. i blew my paycheque on bacon and shoes) and i'm thinking of wine. first the coats off then the corks out. this wine required about ten minutes to decarbonate itself, after that things got worse. the nose had hints of rising hot cross buns and a week old bouquet from a bad date. i detected koala piss and pineapple on the tongue. but after d&d was cancelled i went for it on this bottle, the buzz mellowed the flavour, but resulted with me waking up at 6:30 for work with a mid week hang over. at a mere 11.5% alcohol i won't make this mistake twice. it does however have a cute bird stamp on the bottle, foiled by curb appeal!

maiden blog voyage

dunavar "connoiseur collection"
2006 pinot gris
hungary
$13.00ish at the cedar college

this little number is an unassuming tasty wine. it calls itself fashionable and elegant. the dunavar is not as classy as audrey hepburn, but might be able to pass for bridgit bardot. the wine feels like a soft summer apricot cloud on the tongue. and a delicate fruit salad on the nose. mellow like a marshmallow. a bit caramely. it tastes just as nice the next day with an afternoon of bookbinding and talking heads. i'd probably buy it again.
3/5

Playing Catch-up

Now that Wendeep Oaksminder (pictured) is knee deep in the arduous task we all know as 'wine sampling', we seem to be sampling faster than we can post. Maybe soon you will read of her experiences first hand, but for now I'll tell you some things that were said over a special treat we specially treated ourselves with last weekend.

Dos Fincas Vina Amalia, Argentinian 60% Cab, 40% malbec, 13.5% alc. $18.99 @ Liberty wine mechant, Granville Island. (Rumour has it this can be found slightly cheaper at the Liberty on Robson? [and yet another rumour has it this can be found even slightlier cheapier at the cold b&w at oak and 25th?])

Nose: Bitter rubber, summer lily, vanilla, fresh cut red cedar, Field's shoe department in August.

Mouth: Leather shoe unworn, long finish with a hint of banane, robust as pound cake, drink it with a fork.

Palate-ball: Fresh figs (good), Aged goat gouda (pretty good), chile pepper gouda (okay), strawberries (good), applewood smoked cheddar (highlight with strawberries), french brie (with this wine is like yougurt and fruit, so really good).

Rating: 3.85 of 5



-J. Floorburn

Cono Sur Revisited and Comparerd

Here we have close friends and lasagna. (I realise the lasagna is not pictured and only one close friend is, but you'll have to take our word for it. And yes, hallowe'en was a week ago.)

Keep goin the way we're goin. bicycle schmycicle. I think we canm agree that the inorganic cono sur is inferior to the organic. A bunch of wines drank in tandem will NOT corrupt each others flavours. The next one out-does or fails against it's predecessor. LARPing. In the woods and shit. Stanley Park one afternoon. If you are a dwarf, you dress up as a dwarf. When wine's on sale, take it.

-J. Floorburn

My First Australian

Tintara Horseshoe Row. Medal winning 2006 shiraz. Monsieur d'Orange says it's "Good, really good." I say have it with halibut with lime and butter, it can satisfy a craving for fried chiggen.

Alc. 14.5%/vol.

Rating: nice, nicely done.

-J. Floorburn

The Joy of Painting

Well, it was November first, time to carve the pumpkin. Sort of a diorama, here in the photograph. The Trapiche lives over here, just nestled next to the pumpkin house. And the little gourds, they're just snuggling playfully, enjoying themselves.

Seeds roasted at three twenty five for about fifteen minutes with olive oil, seasoning salt and curry powder makes a snack not unlike popcorn.

Most of this bottle was drank over "Ironman", the movie, and good humour was sufficiently sustained.

Rating: pretty good
-J. Floorburn