Pittsburgh BYOB gathering #10

I'll take care of the tasting note sheets.

Thanks for offering ecola. BTW, I stumbled across this template on our own new "Fine Wine & Good Spirits" website. It is wine evaluation/tasting chart. You may or may not want to use.

http://www.finewineandgoodspirits.com/webapp/wcs/stores/WineandSpirits/learnentertain /PDFs/wine_evaluation_chart.pdf

Thanks ecola!!

Driving tip:

Rather than take Racetrack Road all the way to 19, and have to make the the U turn to get back to Palazzo's, look for Quail Acres Lane once you past the traffic lights at the entrance to The Meadows. Take a left there (just before the auto dealership) and follow it up to the back side of Palazzo's.

See everyone around 7:00pm Friday night!

The Mollydooker date has been set: September 23rd. Its official. Price etc when I know.

Works for me.

How casual is the dress in summer at this place? It seemed fairly nice but it is still Washington County. Are shorts OK?

I'll be bringing one (unoaked Chard).

jlburg - I think shorts are okay. We'll be upstairs by ourselves.

Mark,
Who is bringing the unoaked Chard, you or Admin? ;-)

Only 2 to attend. Me and my son.

ecola - one or two?

One

Final line up -

Bigred 2
Jonradus 2
jlburg 2
J2K 1
tonypoli 2
Mark 1
Hawk 2
dontime 2
Tantore 1
ecola 1

total 16

Wines -

2006 Two Hands Shiraz "Ares"
2006 Glaetzer "Amon Ra"
2006 Mollydooker "The Boxer"
2005 Mollydooker "Enchanted Path"
2004 Wolf Blass Platinum Label
2002 K Vintners "The Beautiful"
2002 K Vintners "Morrison Lane"
1998 Rosemount Estate Balmoral Syrah
2007 Two Hands "Bella's Garden"
2006 Glaetzer "Wallace"
2007 Mollydooker "Blue Eyed Boy"
2006 Sine Qua Non-Raven Shiraz
2004 Rustenberg Stellenbosch Syrah
2005 Colonial Estate Explorateur Old Vine Shiraz

I will have professional scores and CT averages for all wines above available if anyone is interested. It's an amazing line up!!!

There are also a few whites coming for the appetizer round.

Hey...I opened the Raven this morning and it smells and tastes great. For the purposes of CT ratings, Im also bringing a Carlisle Papas Block 08. When I pulled the cork this morning, I got a whiff of bandaid, it might be corked, but since I couldnt resist the SQN and I had to come to work, I didnt try it, I will when I get home. If its not sound, or if Im iffy on it, Ill be bringing a Carlisle 07 Cardiac Hill to replace it.

I'm bringing Chard and Two Hands Bella's, Admin is bringing a surprise!

One other thing...

Is anyone interested in splitting a bottle of Domaine Carneros Pinot Noir Famous Gate 2006 to try?

http://www.pawinetalk.com/detail/?id=1001177

http://www.cellartracker.com/wine.asp?iWine=511869

It looks good but at $38 I'm a little hesitant.

If anyone is interested (the more the merrier) I could pick up a bottle shortly and bring it this evening.

Mark

Mark, $38 is a hell of a price for that bottle. Two years ago I brought one to a pinot blind tasting and it was only beat by Walter Hansel 04 North slope. Others in the tasting included Kosta Browne 06 Russian River, Dutton Goldfield, Dumol, and a few Oregon PNs. I dont remember how much it cost at the winery (where I got it) but it was way north of that.

Mark - I'm in on the Famous Gate.

We really need another wine tonight :)

I'm going to drink an 8% Riesling today to bring down the alcohol level in my system :-)

I have a red, two bottle wine "bag" that someone left last night. Great time - looking forward to admin's article.

Don

The red wine carrier is mine. I wonder why I wasn't thinking clearly on the way out. ;)

Kudos to Palazzo for their hospitality. Exceptional experience. J2K had the right idea. I had the Murietta's Well for the first time on Sat & it was like water. It took 48 hours for the wine tasting buds to recover

I was back at Palazzo's last night and they really enjoyed hosting us. Chef Adam was especially appreciative of the round of applause he received. Good times - good friends!

We applauded? ;)
Great time guys. Thanks for the invite.
The MD thing might be a little more money and apparently the tickets are being spoken for even without a price attached to them. Im waiting to hear the final price. I know MD wont allow more than $99 per ticket, so it wont be that much higher than the $50 I was talking about, but I will post as soon as I know for sure.
Looking forwards to the next OL

Hi guys....update posted