Lulu B Pinot Noir (oddly enough from France!)
Deep red brick color and a powerful bouquet with notes of cherry and a hint of truffle. Elegant and charming with silky tannins that lead to black cherry and ripe raspberry flavors and a long finish.
This wine has quickly found it's way into my wine staple! it's just all around an amazing find and it's under $10.00 please do not be a wine snob many great wines can be found under $10.00 and a rare one now and then for around $5.00 though not as remarkable as this gem.
Consider this my first in a series of wine posts I'll be doing!
Edward O'Rourke IV
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If you know the history of Pinot Noir.... it's the Cali version of Burgundy! from where else.... FRANCE......... so it seemed ironic to me.... A FRENCH??? Pinot Noir??? France doing what cali did to copy france???
It's well worth the $8.99 I paid i bought 5 bottles and will be buying more without a doubt!
it will still sell high end but you have so many form other regions now that they don't compete on any other market at all high end only counts for so much... But I promise you France will be the past bastion of the cork! screw caps are the future and for those of you that think only swill comes with a screw cap you are very very wrong!
But this was a mere "table wine" (even though it was some of the best wine I had ever tasted). I may be a snob about this, but for quality wines, screw seals are a no-no. Here's what I hear about them: they are not as efficient at sealing out unwanted air, or at sealing in necessary chemical reactions (during late in-bottle fermentation).
The reason is simple: 20 mils of plastic breathes far more than 2 inches of either natural or plastic composite cork. Corks (especially when one stores a wine bottle so that the cork remains wet) capture and hold the internal atmosphere of a bottle far better than screw tops can. They don't let air in, which can taint a quality wine with unwanted natural agents-- yeasts, pollens, etc. And they don't let pressurized air out, so whatever late bottle fermentation occurs is moderated by a constant atmosphere.
The wine industry (especially in the US) is really touting the screw top right now. Don't necessarily believe the hype. Taste the wines that are cork-sealed (natural or synthetic) and taste the wines that are screw-sealed. Make your own judgments.For me, cork-sealed wines are far superior.
Try Lulu B it's from southern france if you like Pinot Noir I bet you'll be happy with it.
See for me I have high end wines I drink on special occasions and then I have what I call table wine though table wine at our house is usually far nicer than the cheap stuff most would buy... since we drink wine EVERY NIGHT with everything we eat including pizza :) lol so drinking the best all the time would be a waste but we look for great buys... Like an Argentinian wine named Astica. $5.99 a bottle but that one has a cork ;) lol
any way I suppose the point of this is don't judge by a cap or by a price judge by actual taste. Lulu B is 8.99 - 10.99 it's so cheap what do you have to loose :)
Cheers!
Cork only works well if the wine has been stored properly and you can't always be sure it has especially anything that has aged in the bottle... you hope it has but you can't always know. For a cork to work the bottle has to remain on it's side so the cork stays wet... if it dries out it's letting too much air through and that wine is going to taste bad. If it's a cork with a wax seal like some do they are limiting air trasference and again you DO want SOME ever so tiny air.... this helps a wine age.
any way you'll always have the die hard cork fans :)
Cheers!
Better wines will eventually more than likely wind up using something like a zork. whatever it might be called it could be something hybrid of cork and synthetic or screwcap or something all together new though each would be engineered to allow optimal oxidization.
What amazes me is how much you can find about something that would to most people might seem so trivial. A lot of money is being spent on cork alternative research.
do a google on "zork cork" don't google just zork you'll get lots of links to the old game I used to play lol.
Cheers
I have no idea if I like Pinot Noir, but now I'm going to have to try it out of curiousity.
pinot gregio because it is yummy and doesnt stain your teeth!
I am the same with my web dev business... you shouldn't force people to learn the lingo - talk to them in a way they are comfortable with... If they want to learn more they will on their own over time.
I'm still learning every day myself - I think once you run out of things that excite and stimulate what's left? so I always look for new things to become excited about wine is just one of them.
I knew you meant buff and not naked buff lol and I also know Jamie Oliver - I love to cook and he's so excited about what he does. Not sure I'd ever do a TV show lol I don't feel I know enough to do it. But I have considered a wine website journal and forum but it's already been done so I don't know how to spin it to make it special and no I don't think people would want to see me do wine blogs naked LOL
I'll keep trying to share wines that excite me!
Thanks so much for the really nice comment though it's appreciated and makes spending the time posting them worthwhile.
Cheers!
IV
I don't think your Pinot Noir's sold here.
http://www.wine-pages.com/temp/esmer02.htm
Hey you know AdGuy always gets the last word! ;)