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Last weekend I had the opportunity to purchase the Lambic beer und the Geuze beer from Lindemans. If i understand correctly, Lambic is the young beer and Geuze is made of Lambic beers from different years with additional maturing. Date of expiry, even for the Lambic, was 09/2011! Both are pretty unu...

Thanks for these very interesting information. Did not know Geuze before. Next time in Belguim I will have to look for it.

Thanks for the note, Alex. Good to know it shows that promising. Recently I purchased 6 bottles.
Michael

A simply delicious Pils I had recently is this one. Rothaus Pils Tannenzäpfle. It's from the Black Forest. "Tannenzäpfle" is Swabian and means fir cone. http://www.rothaus.de/img/02biere/02_tannenz_175.JPG http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:TpnRPDC3HF6yTM:http://ihr-getraenke-kurier.esho...

In 2006 I talked about 2003 Niepoort VP with Dirk van der Niepoort at Prowein. He said this one would go perhaps for 100.

Andy, what's that liquid in the glass? Is it matured Pink Port? Will one look like this man after weeks of abuse?

Michael

I often use a glass for white wine. It's Weissweinkelch series VINO GRANDE from Spiegelau. http://www.amazon.de/Spiegelau-Wei%C3%9Fweinkelch-Vino-Grande/dp/B001IILG2O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=kitchen&qid=1251804531&sr=1-1 I'd say this one looks like a pipe. http://www.amazon.com/Oenophilia-P...

Hi Nick, welcome aboard! Hard to fine a good wine at the german discount shops. One rare exception is the Champagne "Veuve Monsigny" from Aldi. At 14,00 EUR a decent one. If there is Aldi in your area try to find the chocolate "Moser-Roth Edel Bitter, 70% Kakao (respectively 85% Kakao...

Glen, I am not whisky geek at all because my knowledge and experience is rather limited. However I am interested in that concern and I occasionally I love that stuff- power and complexity. I remember a holiday in Burgundy. At the face normally one would go for the local wine. But one day there was t...

Interesting, Alex. Highland Park 12 yo sounds delicious. There are also some Whisky boards in this country and many geeks seem to feel for this Single Malt. At 34 EUR (1,0l) available what seems to be a decent price. Unfortunately Lagavulin is more than 40 EUR the normal bottle in Germany and even i...

Not yet RM for Richard Mayson (Dignified High Priest of Port I'd say)?

Regards,
MM (Michael Mildew)

Here's the link

I hope you will enjoy it.

Your're talking a lot about beer although best beer is made in Germany and in the Czech Republic. But there is no real passionate whisky thread. :shock: :shock: :shock: What's the reason? You are having it with your daily cereal so this matter is boring too much? Your representatives did all order o...

Axel P wrote:Lets see what relations can do

Axel

Axel, any news for that matter?

As I mentioned 3 bottles of 1995 SW LBV on the way to me. I got them on Wednesday and got (as usual) the victim of my own greedyness. A small aspect was to check at once the cork as to a decission of stocking up. So I decanted half bottle and pulled the other half into a 0,375l bottle for the next d...

Hi and welcome!
You already earned a medal for posting that link. Is that video from the naturalistic genre? A little feebleness was the Deutsche Schäferhund. Hey, we are growing B E A S T S not puppy-dogs! Harrrrrrr!!!

Michael

Kabinett Feinherb. Hey, what a name for something to drink :) . Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt is not one of the top names at Mosel-Saar-Ruwer but upper middle-sized class, I'd say. Feinherb means not dry and not sweet. I think you call it "off dry". But it is certainly more in the direction o...

Perhaps goat cheese (I do like it very much with Beaujolais Cru or Sauvignon Blanc from Loire valley) is generally not perfect with Port because of the dryness of goat cheese. Perhaps a Dry White Port would match best, e.g. Niepoort Dry White (one can drink easily too much of this one, yummy). But I...

SushiNorth wrote: We were picking up magnums of the 97... . ...it's good to know they should be drunk in 5-7 years, not 20.

This obviously does not count for 1997. I'd say it will rather peak in 10-15 years. However I will not touch my bottles for some years.

Am I right in thinking that Warre’s Warrior is one of the oldest brands of Ruby Port? (Which might excuse the horse). Is there much difference between ‟tawny-style” ruby reserves and ruby-style ones? It's a brand since 1750 http://www.warre.com/conteudos.asp?content=32&title=Warrior . Id did n...

1995 Warre Cavadinha VP is too far from its peak so as to provide full pleasure. It would not be my choice. Hence the LBVs remain. I propose to drink 1995 Smith Woodhouse LBV. It should be fully mature and I don't want to conceal that I would be particulary interested in an update of your impression...

I do know that this is not an overly exciting matter. I had so far several Reserve Rubies. Some of them like the Ramos Pinto Collector, Graham's Six Grapes or the Ferreira Dona Antonia I do really like. But LBV or Crusted Port do often offer a far better QPR. This Warre was however for less than 8 E...

Imo there is no need to puzzle out what to eat with Port. I normally do like Port on its own. But recently I had a Kletzenbread with Cambozola cheese respectively Rooijackers Overijssel cheese and I found it to be very tasty with a glass of Tawny. I found the contrast of the rather sweet (but not cl...

Here's the link.

http://www.wineanorak.com/portugal/vesuvio.htm

Hi Oscar,

welcome aboard! Very interesting contributions. Please keep on giving us opinion and insight in that and very sympatric way!

Cheers
Michael