2010-02-23 1:18 pm cabernet, red, wine and cakebread
This was a gift from a friend and co-worker, perhaps 6 or 7 years ago. We had been saving it specifically for our 2010 New Years dinner, and that happy event was postponed a few weeks due to scheduling conflicts, but finally came around.
This wine was truly wonderful. A nose almost like bourbon in its intensity. Peat and fresh cut pine, mint and vanilla. A real treat just to sniff. Big jammy flavors, but very soft, with the enormous tannins from several years back all melted away. Lovely long silky finish. Deep red and gold color.
I'm awfully glad we saved it, and glad we picked this moment to open it. It was just about perfect, and, sharing it with dear friends made it even better. A truly remarkable wine, and a huge encouragement to hold on to some of my more precious bottles a few years longer. This earns the very rare 40 bottles of ring-bo-ree, and wish that you, too, may go to sea in a sieve, to the hills of the Chankly Bore.
2010-02-11 12:06 pm red, wine and pinot
Last night we had the 2007 Castillo de Molina Pinot Noir Reserva with spaghetti. I tasted it first with a Double Gloucester, which it stood up very well to. It was fairly tannic, but they softened very quickly, so perhaps this is made to drink pretty young. Strawberries and mineral aromas. Soft red berries in the mouth.
I'll give this one 28 bottles of Ringboree. At $9, a great buy. I expect we'll be getting this one again.
2010-01-14 12:50 pm red, wine and zinfandel
Very simple at first but developed into licorice and fresh baked bread in the nose. Jammy, strawberry taste and long fruity finish. Few of the expected zin flavors but still very yummy. Had with pasta with red sauce. Better after dinner by itself. 35 bottles of Ringboree.
2009-10-23 1:45 am beer, ale and IPA
La Fin Du Monde, triple fermentation ale. 9% alc.
I expected something more like the Sam's triple bock, and it was very much not like that at all. Although very high in alcohol content, it tasted pretty much like a IPA, and so a 750ml of it was a bit on the dangerous side.
I have no idea where they came up with the name. I'm sure it seemed terribly clever at the time. That sort of thing always does.
As I said to my Beloved when I was done with it, I enjoyed it, but it's not the sort of thing that I'm likely to buy again. At $7 for a 750, it's not exactly cheap. And since one got dropped in the driveway, it ended up being twice that price. Sort of.
Anyways, it's worth trying, but it's not going to be a regular.
22 bottles of ring-bo-ree.