Down by the riverside I laid my burdens down and I'm travelin' light
Posted in Food and drink on Aug 26th, 2007
One of the Rieslings we had in GINI 11 is Domaine Weinbach Riesling Schlossberg Cuvee Sainte Catherine Riesling from Alsace. First, I want to decode the words here. Domaine Weinbach is the producer. Schlossberg is castle hill in German. Cuvée is same as the English word Reserve. In Rhone Valley, producers produce special, deluxe lots […]
Posted in Food and drink on Aug 13th, 2007
One thing I failed to mentioned in my previous post was that our 2nd bottle, Domaine Etienne Sauzet Puligny Montrachet Champ Gain, is a Chardonnay. There is two way to know this, the hard way is to do a bit of research (internet, library books), the easy way is to ask Vincent W. Well, I […]
Posted in Food and drink on Aug 12th, 2007
Since the last time I wrote, which is more than 4 months ago, we had 4 more wine tastings. So we have been consistently drinking, but I have not been consistently writing. So I have quite a bit of catching up to do here… We had GINI 11 back in May 11, at Vincent W’s […]
Posted in Food and drink on Apr 7th, 2007
Canada’s greatest pinot noir, that’s how one newspaper columnist compliments wines from Le Clos Jordanne. It just happens that first wide release of their debut vintage is on the same day as our wine tasting day. So we tasted 4 bottles of Pinot Noir from LCJ’s 3 different vineyards. Two of the bottles are from […]
Posted in Food and drink on Feb 27th, 2007
Back to my old self, next wine taste is coming in less than a week, and I have yet to write an entry for the previous wine taste. But what is worse is that I don’t remember much from GINI IX. I do remember turnout was low, so few people that we can only tried […]
Posted in Food and drink on Jan 15th, 2007
We don’t even know when our next GINI going to be, and I’m writing this blog (What’s going on??) Actually I’ve meant to write as soon as we had our last tasting, but somehow I just rather to write something else. I was more excited than usual coming to this wine taste, reason being, I […]
Posted in Food and drink on Dec 26th, 2006
In another 4 days, we’ll be having another wine taste, so again I need to do a blog for the previous one (I really should’ve gotten this done much earlier) Maybe I should simply blog while we are having the wine. But then I’m not sure if there will be space for my laptop, with […]
Posted in Food and drink on Nov 24th, 2006
Ok, a break from the Peru trip. This edition of GINI Wine Taste actually happened back in October the 21st. I “need” to blog this now because we will be having another wine taste this weekend. My memory is a little hazy on this October wine taste; I was super busy both at work […]
Posted in Food and drink on Aug 13th, 2006
Two weeks after we had our Inexpensive Bordeaux tasting, we were at it again, and this time it was all white wines. In a recent wine tastings article in WSJ, they reviewed some dressy summer whites, actually White Burgundies. We managed to find one of them at LCBO, so we decided to give it a […]
Posted in Food and drink on Jul 30th, 2006
Our fourth tasting probably has the best group of wine so far; many initial reaction from us were like, “they are all quite good!” In the end, we didn’t pick a clear winner; but there was one bottle that we unanimously rated last (not that it’s not any good) It is interesting to note that, […]
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Down by the riverside I laid my burdens down and I'm travelin' light