Subj : Re: Help me here .. I am confused ?
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Adept
Date : Mon Jan 09 2023 16:17:24

 pF> Their Pinots noir are nice. I live on the California coast, and our
 pF> climate  is cool and moist, with lots of morning fog. All of the pinots
 pF> here have the  same presentation - lots of dark cherry. They're some of
 pF> my favorites, as I  suffer from Cabernet Sauvignon burnout - Napa Valley
 pF> and sonoma got too  oakey, too alcohol-laden.

Pinot Noir is my favorite among common reds (I really liked a Marquette (grape type) wine I tasted, once, but since then have _never_ seen the grape available elsewhere, and I've looked.), and, yeah, too oak-y, too alcohol-laden does seem to be a common problem among many wines, if less so with Pinot Noir.

And, on that note, eventually I'll get around to trying some German Pinot Noirs (I think they're normally listed as "Spaetburgunder"), as it seems plausible that some German red wine might be benefiting from climate change.

Though wine is difficult -- I don't drink very much, so it's hard to justify buying a bottle of wine when I want a quarter of a glass. So it requires a certain type of friends, in certain situations, and oftentimes a storage place is also a good idea.

I _did_ go through a wine advent calendar. But, unfortunately, the reds were almost uniformly table wines at _best_. But there were four or five Rieslings out of the 24 bottles (100ml bottles, so I didn't feel bad drinking the amount I did.), and, while I'm not a huge fan of Rieslings, they were reliably at least decent.

But, on that note, I've drunk more gin. Easier to find small bottles, and more reasonable to just close them up again to theoretically drink later.

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