I hope everyone here in the U.S. had a great Thanksgiving; I thought I would share my tasting notes from our feast:
Mommessin, Beaujolais Nouveau 2005 ($10) – Ruby in color with a purple rim, black cherry and strawberry aromas; strawberry and cherry fruit flavors with soft tannins and good acidity. A very good nouveau that portends an excellent Beaujolais vintage. Enjoy until the end of the year. Score: 8.5/10
Ponzi, Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley, Oregon 2002 ($30) – Ruby color with powerful raspberry and plum aromas; raspberry and black cherry fruit flavors with a nice cinnamon note on the finish. Excellent concentration of fruit and pleasing acidity. Delicious now and will continue to please for another year or two. Score: 9/10
Now back to my turkey coma and the rest of the 4th quarter of the Cowboys game – Go Broncos! 🙂
Tim–
Happy Thanksgiving. Thanks for all the work you do to make this site & podcast so enjoyable and informative. I have been a regular visitor since July and you have really opened my eyes and challenged me to try some new wines. As far as Thanksgiving, it was a 2003 Hartley Ostini – Highliner and a 2003 Ridge Lytton Springs. Both were wonderful. Now it’s on to pairing wines for our Christmas feast! Again, thanks.
Pat,
Great choices for Thanksgiving… I was at the Hitching Post II for dinner this summer and had a glass of the Highliner. Excellent Pinot and it was too bad that they were in such short supply that I could not buy a bottle to take home. I will be doing a Christmas wine podcast soon, but will probably serve my favorite Ridge bottling: Geyserville from either 2002 or 03.
Thanks for your support and cheers!
I tried the Georges Dubeouf and Louis Tete Beauolais Nouveau last weekend…..both very good though very primary and elemental wines….good fun stuff…not something to contemplate in the glass…but enjoyed it very much on a hot Sydney afternoon with friends
Cheers
Dave