On Thursday, December 13, 2012 12:18:40 PM UTC-7, Bi!! wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2:03*pm, santiago > wrote:
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> > DaleW > wrote :
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> > > 2009 Wind Gap Pinot Gris
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> > > Skin contact (orange) wine I assume, looks like a rose - a darker rose
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> > > at that. I really didn t like this at first- seemed austere and overly
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> > > herby. But improved a lot with air - smoky, cranberry and red plum.
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> > > full, long. B-/C+ *day one, B on day 2.
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> > I think I had one bottle of this... but no, it was the 2008, and I found it
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> > really delicious. And I thought it would be the kind of wine to appeal you,
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> > since I found it quite loiresque.
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> > Perhaps 2008 and 2009 are different beasts! but it feels nice to have
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> > tasted one U.S. wine that shows up in the newsgroup.
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> > Regards,
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> You make a good point Santiago regarding U.S. wines. I'm always
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> surprised when I travel at the lack of U.S. wines I find outside of
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> the U.S. I wouldn't go to France or Spain or Italy, etc. and order an
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> American wine to begin with (I'm usually there in the first place to
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> taste the local wines) but when I do find American wines they usually
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> tend to be the mass produced plonk coming from wine factories and not
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> the good artisinal wines. I found very few new world wines in Europe
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> in general and what I did find tended to be Aussie shiraz so they've
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> done a good job at marketing their wines internationally. It's
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> unfortunate that more of iconic new world wines don't make it our of
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> our hemisphere as some of them are incredibly good or at least very
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> interesting.

Amazingly, I found good US wines in Japan. None in Italy.