Comments on: A 100 point moment – wine in tropics edition

By: Al

Al — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:50:55 +0000

Staying at Cain Cellars with friends drinking 85 Cain 5 while watching the sun go down behind us and the shadows lengthen below us in Napa (over 20 years ago).

By: Wine-on-the-Way

Wine-on-the-Way — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:18:20 +0000

What a great photograph. Looks like the Virgin Islands? (Rum is certainly cheaper than wine there!) If only we could close our eyes and let our imagination run free everytime when drinking wine. I recommend pairing spring barbeques and Shiraz…sublime (to quote Jack).

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:24:26 +0000

Like Lyman, my moment was also in Tuscany, in early summer of 2003. We were staying at I Parigi, a hilltop B&B overlooking the town of Florence across the road from a monastery. The sun was setting, the bells from the monastery were ringing, and we were enjoying the owner’s own Chianti with some cheese we had brought with us from Piedmont with some local bread. A sublime experience which I hope will not be a once in a life time event.

By: Carlos Silveira

Carlos Silveira — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:52:46 +0000

What about drinking local (“when in Rome do as the Romans do” etc.), what about the carbon footprint of your wines?

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:50:22 +0000

It was actually at a graduation dinner for college. I was surrounded by my own family, my closest friends and their families. There was food and wine abound, and it was excellent–a moment filled with high spirits and celebration. But, to tell the truth, any decent wine might have tasted great in that moment.

By: lars

lars — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:45:54 +0000

Peso da Regua, Portugal. On a much needed vacation, I enjoyed a simple meal with a friend at a local churasquera. Lunch was 5 euros a person and the wine was 2 Euros a bottle. I will never forget this meal for its simplicity and the friendly and helpful service. The owner pulled out a map and planned our wine tasting tour for the weekend with the help of the other servers. Probably the best wine experience of my life…at a personal cost of 7 Euros.

By: winechick

winechick — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:12:28 +0000

By: Lyman Dally

Lyman Dally — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:26:02 +0000

My wife and I took a tour thru’ Tuscany a few weeks after 9/11. We visited an old tower in a hilltop town called Radicofani. Before we explored the old ruin we stopped into a small restaurant at the foot of the ruin. There we had a simple seafood dish and the “house wine”. It was $3 a bottle (this was before the Euro). What a fantastic heavy, earthy wine it was; more like a primitivo than a standard sangiovisi. I wish I could’ave taken a case home.