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Patty Collins in VT

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I have always been a bit on the fence about Pinot Noir. Yes it is good with food, yes it is popular and unoffensive as wines go, but never have I sipped a PN that made me say. YES YES YES this is what I want in a Pinot Noir. This wine is a lovely medium to light garnet color. It smells of raspberry and blueberry and tastes of both (but more rasp than blue thank goddess). What makes this wine exceptional is that it is so smooth you think you are sipping silk. The tannins are mellow from beginning to end and there is no pucker at any point. Satin sheets aren't this sexy. I sleep in 900 thread count Egyptian cotton sheets every night and this wine beats that hands down. I do not know what else I can say. A Pinot Noir that is not dominated by Blueberry and is so smooth that it puts Egyptian cotton to shame. No high pitched middle of the mouth puckers and everything everything everything that Pinot Noirs from everyone and everywhere else try to aspire too. The cat on the label doesn't hurt either.

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There has been a thought floating in my head every evening when I eat dinner. The place that wine plays in a meal. I did not web search what others would consider this nectar of the gods and how it fits into a meal and I did not actively consider it. Instead I let my soul do the deciphering and placing of where wine fits in a meal when properly paired. It is not a beverage one sips to enhance the meal, No. Is asparagus a vegetable you add to enhance a meal? Or sauted mushrooms with your steak? No. Wine is nothing more nor less than an additional course to the symphony that we wish we could all achieve at every meal. Tonight I opened a bottle of 2015 BX even though I have a bottle of 99 Barrels Pinot open. It just seemed to be the right time. I like to open a wine and test it without alteration (aerating or decanting) on the first sip. When first opened I smelled Earthy Cave and mushrooms, to me a sign of a wine I am going to go head over teakettle for. Color is dark garnet and when first poured into a glass I smelled Black Cherry and Plumbs. My first sip had even tannins and a medium to long finish with Dark Cherry and Tannins. Not surprising considering this wine is young and I had not been aerated or decanted. So I decanted a glass and sipped 99 Barrels Pinot while making my NY Sirloin and homemade potato chips (using purple meat potatoes). This full bodied wine with it's mouth full of flavor was the absolutely perfect combination with my dinner. The silky smooth sipping that I get from the older brother (2014 BX) is present when paired with a good heavy meal that puts the tannins in their place. I could not be happier, well okay I could be happier, it could be 6 months from now or 3 years from now when this wine will drink smoothly straight out of the bottle. But then that is what decanting an aerators are for. LOVE ME MY BX!!!!!!!

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$18.99

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$10.99

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I generally don't rate a bottle until I have consumed the entire thing. Well okay sometimes I wait. This bottle... This bottle... I keep seeing it referred to as a Merlot. But it is a blend and I love Blends. It is a dark garnet color and the smell out of the bottle is cherry and pleasant. A smidge tight at first but letting it sit in the glass while talking with a friend on the phone fixed that. I taste cherry and raspberry and black berry and maybe blueberry but I couldn't swear to that. I can't stop sipping. Even tannins and flavor that lingers for a good long while. Some day I will remember all the proper wine terminology but today was a rough day at work. This wine has made the some come out on a day where I have my heat on in June. Yes it is 6/9/16 and I turned the heat on because it is 48 degrees outside and rainy. This wine ... This wine... Like curling up in your Grandfather's lap when you are a small child. Warm, delightful, and comforting. I would name this wine after my grandfather but Waldo Rumpus might not work since Grandpa Waldo was not very Rumpus. But this wine is very Grandpa Waldo, And that is the biggest compliment I can give Anything.

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$19.99

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Sharon Weeks Cattoo Lodi Pinot Noir 2015

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I have always been a bit on the fence about Pinot Noir. Yes it is good with food, yes it is popular and unoffensive as wines go, but never have I sipped a PN that made me say. YES YES YES this is what I want in a Pinot Noir. This wine is a lovely medium to light garnet color. It smells of raspberry and blueberry and tastes of both (but more rasp than blue thank goddess). What makes this wine exceptional is that it is so smooth you think you are sipping silk. The tannins are mellow from beginning to end and there is no pucker at any point. Satin sheets aren't this sexy. I sleep in 900 thread count Egyptian cotton sheets every night and this wine beats that hands down. I do not know what else I can say. A Pinot Noir that is not dominated by Blueberry and is so smooth that it puts Egyptian cotton to shame. No high pitched middle of the mouth puckers and everything everything everything that Pinot Noirs from everyone and everywhere else try to aspire too. The cat on the label doesn't hurt either.

Price:

$19.99

Angels:

$10.99

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Jim Olsen BX California 2015

$18.99

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There has been a thought floating in my head every evening when I eat dinner. The place that wine plays in a meal. I did not web search what others would consider this nectar of the gods and how it fits into a meal and I did not actively consider it. Instead I let my soul do the deciphering and placing of where wine fits in a meal when properly paired. It is not a beverage one sips to enhance the meal, No. Is asparagus a vegetable you add to enhance a meal? Or sauted mushrooms with your steak? No. Wine is nothing more nor less than an additional course to the symphony that we wish we could all achieve at every meal. Tonight I opened a bottle of 2015 BX even though I have a bottle of 99 Barrels Pinot open. It just seemed to be the right time. I like to open a wine and test it without alteration (aerating or decanting) on the first sip. When first opened I smelled Earthy Cave and mushrooms, to me a sign of a wine I am going to go head over teakettle for. Color is dark garnet and when first poured into a glass I smelled Black Cherry and Plumbs. My first sip had even tannins and a medium to long finish with Dark Cherry and Tannins. Not surprising considering this wine is young and I had not been aerated or decanted. So I decanted a glass and sipped 99 Barrels Pinot while making my NY Sirloin and homemade potato chips (using purple meat potatoes). This full bodied wine with it's mouth full of flavor was the absolutely perfect combination with my dinner. The silky smooth sipping that I get from the older brother (2014 BX) is present when paired with a good heavy meal that puts the tannins in their place. I could not be happier, well okay I could be happier, it could be 6 months from now or 3 years from now when this wine will drink smoothly straight out of the bottle. But then that is what decanting an aerators are for. LOVE ME MY BX!!!!!!!

Price:

$18.99

Angels:

$10.99

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Scott Peterson Rumpus Chaos 2014

$19.99

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I generally don't rate a bottle until I have consumed the entire thing. Well okay sometimes I wait. This bottle... This bottle... I keep seeing it referred to as a Merlot. But it is a blend and I love Blends. It is a dark garnet color and the smell out of the bottle is cherry and pleasant. A smidge tight at first but letting it sit in the glass while talking with a friend on the phone fixed that. I taste cherry and raspberry and black berry and maybe blueberry but I couldn't swear to that. I can't stop sipping. Even tannins and flavor that lingers for a good long while. Some day I will remember all the proper wine terminology but today was a rough day at work. This wine has made the some come out on a day where I have my heat on in June. Yes it is 6/9/16 and I turned the heat on because it is 48 degrees outside and rainy. This wine ... This wine... Like curling up in your Grandfather's lap when you are a small child. Warm, delightful, and comforting. I would name this wine after my grandfather but Waldo Rumpus might not work since Grandpa Waldo was not very Rumpus. But this wine is very Grandpa Waldo, And that is the biggest compliment I can give Anything.

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$19.99

Angels:

$11.99

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Jarvis Tomei Coloma Zinfandel 2014

$23.99

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Anson Mount. This wine is complex as promised. As Big as any Cab as tasty as any zin. If I didn't know better I would call it a blend. It is well balanced and smooth and going down way to easily. We need more. Much more.

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$23.99

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$13.99

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Richard Bruno Viognier Paso Robles 2014

$21.99

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Fresh unsweetened Chilled Pear. I warmed it in my hand and was rewarded with a little bite at the back of the mouth. This wine is light in the mouth but the fragrance is full. I took my first sip and then my second to be sure that I really was seeing that big tree with the tire swing on a beautiful summer day with blue sky and sunshine all the way to the horizon. I suspect this is a childhood memory from my time in the Midwest. Thank you Richard Bruno for expanding my horizons and giving me reflections of a simpler time. I doubt this bottle is going to make it to day two. The sun is out and it is Friday afternoon. This is my first Viognier and I don't even know how to pronounce it correctly but I can tell you it will not be my last.

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$21.99

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$12.99

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Scott Peterson ROX Sonoma White Blend 2014

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2016.03.10 Yesterday when I opened this bottle the first words out of my mouth were, "This is LOVELY!" I could smell pear and white grapes and it was so smooth I had a hard time noticing anything except the sunlight, minerals and slight hint of butter that hit the middle of my tongue. I had taco meat with monterey jack cheese for dinner (work day and they were leftovers) and the pairing brought forth a bit of oaky bite. It was a good match. The bottle has been in the Fridge for a day now and I just had a glass with my beef tenderloin cooked in Lemon Garlic Sriracha marinade and my crispy fried potatoes (coconut oil with olive oil is the key to do this properly if you are wondering) and the wine during the meal was clean and a bit more buttery than the day before but the minerals held up so sunshine was still present. Desert was a Butterfinger peanut butter cup and the wine liked that too. I am sorry I did not remember to take notes I was too enthralled with the moment. I smell minerals today (but I am recovering from a sinus infection) the flavor is buttery with minerals. It is smooth and refreshing and there is a crispness to the wine. So I will end as I began. This is LOVELY!!!! There are three more bottles in my basket and if you all buy it up before I get more I will be sad as this is my penultimate bottle. 8/11/16 This wine is refreshing and crisp while chilled but warms on a hot day to a mouth full of delicious wine. I still rate this as my favorite white of all time and hope that there is another vintage headed my way. I was not able to get more than the first two bottles and that is just a sad state of affairs. I had this bottle with BBQ Pork Ribs and Asparagus. I could smell and taste grapefruit, pear and honeysuckle. The color was golden yellow with a hint of spring green. Legs were fast and finish was medium. I just had to finish the bottle.

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$26.99

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$14.99

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David Akiyoshi Reserve Chardonnay Clarksburg 2014

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If I am remembering the quote correctly Gallileo had it right on the money. Sunlight on water. Crisp, clean, a hint of citrus, exceedingly drinkable. A chardonnay to love, and I have never loved chardonnays until recently. This one tops the list. No butter no oak to speak of. Just refreshing. I could drink this all day long 24/7/52 it is that good. On a side note, I had it with my left over meatloaf which I always smother in Ketchup (don't judge). This wine went superbly with my meal, nothing else has ever complimented my meatloaf a la ketchup at all and this wine did it superiorly.

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$21.99

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$11.99

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Jacqueline Bahue Pinot Noir Sta. Rita Hills 2014

$33.49

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Decanted and then made a pizza, poured a glass once the pizza was in the oven. Fruity goodness was what I smelled. It is definitely a pinot. It has high notes that are so smooth it makes me think of a Stratovarius. I can never quite figure out the words to describe that particular flavor that is Pinot Noir but this wine does it spectacularly. Smooth all the way across the tongue. Clean Tannins, berry flavor and the back of the throat has a very subtle note of .. I want to say Oak. Love it.

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$33.49

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$19.99

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Ken and Derek Dry Creek Valley Sonoma County Zinfandel 2014

$29.99

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Since becoming an Naked Angel I have learned that I was selling myself short. I did not think I would like Zinfandel but apparently I was wrong. Once again NW winemakers ( Ken and Derek in this instance) have out done themselves with an extremely drinkable and delicious fruity smooth wine.

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$29.99

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$14.99

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Jacqueline Bahue Cabernet Franc Lodi 2014

$17.99

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Exceptional. I had it for the first time with spaghetti and meatballs as recommended. Smooth full of flavor but not over powering. Just delicious.

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$17.99

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$9.99

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DRG Daryl Rex Groom Highmark Ridge Russian River Pinot Noir 2014

$39.99

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12/10/16 A year later.... I opened this bottle and smelled earth and berries. I took a quick sip while cooking dinner and it was marvelous. I took a second quick sip and it tasted a bit "high noted" so Ieft the top off and finished making dinner. Rib eye is my go to meal especially with a great red. Tonight was no exception. I noticed that this pinot was after aging for a year predominantly earthy. I LOVE the earthy. It was not what I expected from a Pinot Noir the blueberry raspberry where there but the earthy was predominant and oh am I a glad I waited that year to drink this second bottle. So worth the wait. And I had given it 5 stars to begin with. Open the bottle and smell the oak. Take a sip and taste the oak and then a dry fruity sensation that rolls across the tonque. Can't quite place the fruity sensation, memories hovering at the edge of my sight. Another sip just as yummy but the memory is elusive. Full Bodied complex wine. Can't ask for more than that. 4/7/16 it is now at least 6 months later. I smelled raspberry and forrest on the first sniff and tasted raspberry and cherry on the first sip. the oaky taste is hiding in the back This wine is so smooth and delicious. A little age has gone a very long way. I may be opening the remaining bottle in May with a friend, or I might be selfish and make it wait until I can have it all to myself.

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$39.99

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$18.99

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Matt Parish Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 2013

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I was lucky enough to receive a bottle in my introductory case. I did not want to open it or drink it because it was already out of stock. It has been six months according to what Matt Parish wrote since this wine was bottled ( have had it for 1 month ) and I am delighted. It is a marvelous wine full of fruit and wood all in a good way. smooth and belly warming. I can't wait for the 2014 sign me up for a case.

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$34.99

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$16.99

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