Bon Vivant. Raconteur, Sommelier
2009. Fresh from my COMA (can’t opine much anymore), I am greeted by the opulence of sauce Périgueux over smoked applewood bacon wrapped top sirloin. Four black truffles gave themselves to the dicing knives to achieve the feat. Purple Black and cloaked in sooty tar. Rings of pipe tobacco brooding. An olfactory, fungal, tor impudicus waving its spongey menace. Candied currants, bursting blackberry, dessicate plum, and dark earth beneath the litter of the fall. Braised offal. Coffee rye. Tart and black cherry punctuate the entry of swift and silken shadow overwhelming palate. One’s heart is black but this is blacker. Baked blackberry jus.
#chateaubranon #pessacléognan #graves #bordeaux #bordeauxrouge #leftbank #famillegarcin #grandvindebordeaux #misenbouteilleauchâteau #vinfrançais — a month ago
Incredible depth and breadth on this 25 year old. Still boasting tannins that are round and firm. Meaty, chewy and impeccable, with a bresaola nose, dried blackberry, cassis, chocolate, espresso, cedar and tobacco. Black cherry, graphite, maduro cigar, blackberry, and bay.
#pichonlonguevillebaron #pichonbaron #bordeaux #deuxiemescru #bordeauxrouge #paulliac — 3 months ago
Sierra Nevada Dank Little Thing hazy ipa
Pear juice colored, merengue top, stalactic, cephalopodic, surfy lacings and potato-eye dimple dinged tracings. Grapefruit tapioca nose with pink grapefruit nodal components. Lime pulped, and definitely holding. Creamier mouthfeel reveals sweet citrus tangelo, but offers hazelnut, and a certain nugginess suggesting cannabinols. The progression is lime, lemon, grapefruit, pomelo, tangelo, and you know.
#sierranevadabrewing #sierranevada #sierranevadadanklittlething #danklittlething #hazyipa #ipa #hazy #beer #indiapaleale #ale #bier #biere #birra #cerveza — 8 days ago
Served steamed at solar maximum; app inability to keep draft data; piss-poor interface results. Blonde has gone silver, toad implosion lacing to asterisks and quotations slide waxen in the angry eyes. Nose of loquat-lemon, candied grapefruit, wonder fruit, nectarine, and yellow watermelon. Creamy mouthfeel brings lemon from the shadows, sporting tangelo.
#stone #stonebrewing #stonehazyipa #hazyipa #amazinglyhazy #vabeer #cabeer #eldorado #azacca #sabro — 14 days ago
Lovely garnet-ruby color; complete. Nettle, sage, and chive nose shows some cherry and cola. Briary entry has peppercorn, raspberry, rose petal. — 3 months ago
Privatbrauerei Eibau Helles Landbier
Golden straw color. Yeast and lemon nose with a film of caperberry. Snow White corona with card suite lacing. Lemon continues through the palate with zest and oil, pith and pulp. Lime and grapefruit follow.
#eibau #privatbrauereiEibau #deutschebier #beer #bier #biere #birra #cerveza — 3 months ago
Grapefruit juice coloration with egg white foam. Shamrock to bubble font and naive gryphon lacing. Nettle and lemon nose grows sweet grapefruit-tangerine, and Meyer-key lime. Bite-y saline-citrus of lemon proper, candied grapefruit, hibiscus, white pepper and lime zest.
#sierranevadabrewing #sierranevada #hoppylittlething #hoppylittlethingipa #ipa #indiapaleale #sessionipa #beer #bier #biere #birra #cerveza — 8 days ago
Golden Tourmaline body with a frosty top of fresh mountain pow. Freckled blob monster in undulating dissolution lacing. Lemon puddings and lime leaves with a single granule of frozen white pepper whose presence informs the palate initially before your maw is awash in citrus zested pretzel bread with signature salinity. Softness and sweetness are not the centerpiece, but a nod to beer is here and I appreciate this element most of all.
#foundersbrewing #Founders #mortalbloom #foundersmortalbloom #mortalbloomhazyipa #ipa #hazy #beer #bier #birra #biere #cerveza — 10 days ago
Lovely ruby reflectives. Dried, ripe and hard red candied cherry aromas. Plummy with porcini and trumpet mushroom, sprinkles of cedar and cinnamon. Dried cranberry and cherry echo on the palate, amplified. Warm strawberry and cola complete the fruit picture, but it is not simply fruity exhibiting white pepper, soft sage and a minuscule rosemary. Generous.
#benmar #pinotnoir #pn #benmarspringbox #springbox #yamhillcarlton #oregonpinotnoir
#oregonpinot #pinot #burgundian
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David Kline
Green gold glinting diamond. Cap smoke, toasted sesame, wildflower honey crystallized, snap pea, chive, lime racing around lemon and zesty crystal droplets stratifying aromatically. Incredible lime zest and essence over lemon verbena, lemon pastry puff, and carnation petal. Amazing in every way.
#pycm #pierreyvescolinmorey #corton #cortoncharlemagne #burgundy #bourgogne #bourgogneblanc #grandcru — 4 days ago