Cahors (and a Malbec)

I feel like we're going backwards here, but I found the list of Cahors we tasted way back when.

2001 Chateau de Gaudou Cahors
2001 Chateau de Grezels Prestige
2000 Cedre Heritage Cahors
2001 Chateau du Cedre "Le Prestige"
2000 Chateau du Cedre
200x Catena Malbec

If you recall, we had a difficult time finding enough Cahors, so we added the Malbec from Argentina. These were all purchased at various places around the city -- I think mostly The Jug Shop and K&L.

Provence 8/6/05

2004 Coteaux Varois Chateau Routas Rose $9.99
2001 Les Baux de Provence Domaine des Terres Blanches $12.99
2001 Minervois Lauraire des Lys "Loriza" $12.99
2000 Bandol Chateau Pradeaux $30.99

These were purchased at K&L. There was one other we cannot remember that was purchased at Say Cheese in Cole Valley. It must not have been that good...

Cote du Rhone 9/24/2005

Bottles have all been recycled so there's a lot of info I'm probably missing that's on the labels...

Clos du Caillou Cote du Rhone $19.99
Mon Coeur $16.99
Renjarde Cote du Rhone $12.99
Dom de Mourchon Seguret $11.99
Delas Feres Cote du Ventoux $6.99

Piemonte Wines 5/28/05

Ok...the official first post to the GYWO blog. Have to start somewhere I guess.

This was actually a tasting from over four months ago...but we must have realized even then our weakness for remembering all the wines we've tried long term, since I captured them on an e-mail. These wines are all from the Piemonte region of Italy ("Piemonte" is the Italian name...it's "Piedmont" in English), and all of them save #2 were purchased at K&L Wines. I'll cover all the wines we tried that night with the price and perhaps some brief comments:

1. 2001 Paitin di Pasquero Dolcetto D'Alba Sori Paitin, $12.99
2. 2003 Castelvero Barbera (I bought this at BevMo), $7.99
3. 2003 Cascina Val del Prete Barbera d'Alba "Serra de Gatti", $15.99
4. 2003 Brovia, La Villerina Secca Freisa (this was the fizzy one), $18.99
5. 2002 Poderi Colla Nebbiolo d'Alba, $17.99
6. 2000 Produttori del Barbaresco, Barbaresco, $24.99
7. 2004 Saracco Moscato d'Asti (this was the white wine we had with dessert), $12.99

The consensus was that #6 was the best wine, and #1 was the best value (quality for the price). #4 was also interesting as it was an effervescent red wine, although that was perhaps more of a novelty than a crowd favorite.

Until next time...