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wrxgal · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 2:56 am

Fearless wrote:

Galicia!

I was at a wedding there early August last year, just after my own in Gibraltar! Unfortunately they served us Portugese wine, the 10th bottom from the left in the line :-)

I met a young guy with a turbocharged Ford Sierra - Tell him that I said hi if you see it fly past :-)

The trouble with places with good wine, is that they mostly sell only their own. If you go into a supermarket in NZ you find HEAPS of ozzy and kiwi wines and maybe half a dozen foreign ones, max. Likewise here, there are very few non-Spanish wines floating around in a typical supermarket. Contrast this with the US (which does have nice wines) and they have acres from everywhere :-)

England is good like that, too, decent kiwi, ozzy, spain, italy, cali, etc sections. Of course, I doubt the English make much wine, and if they do, I wonder who would buy it LOL.

Usually , weddings are not the best place to drink a good wine...but there a lot of restaurants to taste good wines. I coul recomend you a lot of wines but my favorite ones are:
- Pago de Carroviejas Reserva 2004
- Aalto Reserva 2004 or 2005
- Matarromera Reserva 2005 or 2006
- Dehesa de los canonigos Reserva 2004
- Protos Reserva 2004,05,06

I don´t know why is too difficult to buy spanish in the usa wine but i think there isn´t too much people there that like to drink wine in Usa.

P.D. here there are a lot of turbocharged sierra´s , also most of them are crap...

dschultz · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 9:49 am

wrxgal wrote:

I could recommend you a lot of wines but my favourite ones are:
- Pago de Carroviejas Reserva 2004
- Aalto Reserva 2004 or 2005
- Matarromera Reserva 2005 or 2006
- Dehesa de los canonigos Reserva 2004
- Protos Reserva 2004,05,06

I have to pick up some this evening. All I can find locally is:
Pago
Matarromera
Suggestions?

Fearless · **Joined:** Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:44 am **Posts:** 385

wrxgal wrote:

Usually , weddings are not the best place to drink a good wine...but there a lot of restaurants to taste good wines.

Trust me, this one was, the food and wine were simply exquisite! By the end of the night everyone had had their fill, and then some.

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I could recommend you a lot of wines but my favorite ones are:
- Pago de Carroviejas Reserva 2004
- Aalto Reserva 2004 or 2005
- Matarromera Reserva 2005 or 2006
- Dehesa de los canonigos Reserva 2004
- Protos Reserva 2004,05,06

That's funny, all reservas, no grans, no crianzas, I concur :-)

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I don´t know why is too difficult to buy spanish in the usa wine but i think there isn´t too much people there that like to drink wine in Usa.

Oh no, you must've misunderstood, it's not at all difficult there, on the contrary. It's more difficult in NZ, though, where only specialised shops carry any significant selection. The yanks seem to prefer Italian wine, but Spanish wines are everywhere there :-)

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P.D. here there are a lot of turbocharged sierra´s , also most of them are crap...

He was a young guy studying and on a budget. It was all DIY assembled from a slow car and assorted parts with a MS running it. You could call it crap, but I'd call it making the most of what he has available to him :-)

Fred.

Fearless · **Joined:** Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:44 am **Posts:** 385

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http://www.lcbo.com/lcbo-ear/lcbo/produ ... anguage=EN

The first one is a better wine than the second. The gran reserva of the second is nice too, but not listed on that site. That orange label reserva is the wine that got me into Spanish wines. I didn't even know where Spain was, then :-o Just that their wines were more consistent than the French ones (which can be amazing or awful for the same price). Now I'm married to a Spanish girl and Living in Spain! There is a lesson to be learned here, though I've not decided what it is yet LOL :-)

fastblueufo · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 9:45 pm

Vintner bro's (now krupp bro's) 2004 reserve cabernet sav lover here. Nothing like a good smooth cali cabernet. Barking dog cabernet is a good one.

nsfw · **Joined:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:23 pm **Posts:** 2565

Crazy delicious:

http://www.pasekcellars.com/scripts/win ... 8750ml%29/

It's sweet, like a dessert wine.

They also make a dessert wine version, which is overpoweringly sweet. Uncomfortably sweet, even. I have been meaning to try it over ice cream...

RomRaider

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