i feel stupid now.

January 28, 1987.

QOTD : Chateau Les Farcies Du Pech (2003) from Pecharmant in Bergerac.
(Cab sav 40%, Cab Franc 30%, Merlot 30%)
At first it smelled really gamey, and a bit sickly, which was ok. On the palate though, it was dominated by oak – and charred oak at that – old world oak monster rather than new world oak monster. It did give it an amazing frankincense type component which was new to me. Overall it was really well balanced, though was lacking in the fruit department.
On day two (I usually drink wine over 3-5 days), the stinky funk and oak had really integrated, and the fruit had emerged, making it an utter pleasure (though I do think I missed the peak, probably around 12 hours after opening).

Oh yeah – I had AJ’s birthday also – 28th Jan 1987, same as me 🙂 slightly different year though 🙁 . But there was no comment link – boo.

Oh yeah – I had AJ’s birthday also – 28th Jan 1987, same as me 🙂 slightly different year though 🙁 . But there was no comment link – boo.

Ill just pick my birthday (diff birthyear though) .. january 29th 1987 ..on a thursday

qotd: Cullen cabernet merlot

QOTD: we had a priorat the other day that changed dramatically with some airtime. When I first opened the bottle, the wine had this funky nose of spoiled-raw-meat-sitting-in-the-sun-at-the-junkyard. I couldn’t even approach the wine until that blew off a few hours later. Then the wine became all about dark chocolate and black tea. The next day, we felt the wine had notes of both dark and milk chocolate, and the tea was replaced by some notes of sweet cigar. Very interesting.

BTW, I have one of the old-school black wristbands. 🙂

QOTD: A Schild Estate Barossa Shiraz – totally obnoxiously huge when first opened, the next day much improved

I know this is unrelated, but I was wondering if you can taste the 23 flavors in Dr. Pepper (I know I can’t).

I wonder, if there was some left in those corked bottles, if they would have been between yesterday and today in development or different. . . .

Fun experiment!

Q-Not sure, it’s not often that a bottle makes it to the next day in our house.

QOTD: Definitely the 2001 Cooper-Garrod Cabernet Sauvignon Santa Cruz Mountains I had recently. Was at best a 77 on the first night and legitimately tasted like liquid oak, it was almost undrinkable. Left in decanter overnight, and the next night the oak had dissipated almost completely and it was easily a 91+ delicious, smooth cabernet. Tasted like a completely different wine.

Gary great episode…You know I got the original wristband….actually i have 3 of them 🙂 I also just got my 4th gen sniffy sniff in the mail YEAH!!!

QOTD:
-I cant remember what it was but i think it was a red bicycletta merlot. It was a lot better after sitting out over night.

Gary –

Great show today! Liked the re-taste after the 20-something hours.
QOTD: Can’t remember the year, but I believe it was a young Ridge Lytton Springs Zin. Tannic oak monster was in my face when we first opened it, but after a night of airing (too much oak to start with, so there was little pleasure in drinking it the first night) the fruit opened up, tannins were manageable and oak monster moved into the background.
BTW, The Thunder show must start with the energy that you bring with the intro! Don’t change it please!

QOTD: January 28 1987 is A J Vaynerchuks Bday!

Dude, you can’t change your into..it’s your trademark. It would be like Ric Flair changing his hair color to black…it just wouldn’t be right.

It’s Stinkor!! (not Skunkor….lol)

http://www.he-man.org/primary_sects/toys/html/collector_guides/motu_class/toy_pages/stinkor.shtml

January 28, 1987!!! AJ B-day!

AJV was born: january 28 1987. he is 21. (that wasnt in there but what the heck)

yes, definitely change the intro. The intro is beginning to grow old. That said, these wines look amazing. I’d love to try some. You should start giving away the “leftovers” to the people who leave comments!!! take note, good idea.

Skunkor! What a pull.

And yes one of the features of the Skunkor action figure toy was it smelled kind of like a nasty, rancid skunk.

Mark

QOTD: I’m generally too quick to vacuum seal wines, which I keep meaning not to do sometime to some of the better ones I open and decant. Except I got a the V1 vacuum decanter now. I’ve got to try it though.

QOTD: I’m generally too quick to vacuum seal wines, which I keep meaning not to do sometime to some of the better ones I open and decant. Except I got a the V1 vacuum decanter now. I’ve got to try it though.

’01 Baron de Ley Rioja … like a whole new wine, and a much better one too.

QOTD: One of the Pinots from a secret pack. It was good on day one, perfect on day two.