Whattado royals; whattado? (My homage to raging crush: TV’s Craig Ferguson)! Long time no blog so let’s dive right in, shall we.
A few weeks ago, I was shopping at my neighborhood Trader Joe’s and overheard a clerk singing the praises of an unseen red wine in the Italian section. Ears pricked, I moved in to [...]
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A new red varietal assaggio minoralus
Chardonnay tasting, mk i, assaggio majoralus
The FIRST Royal Tannin Bomb Chardonnay tasting is now complete. We’ve been a club for over a year and this is our first sampling of arguably the world’s favourite white wine – Chardonnay.
Tasting Date: 08/15/2009
Tasting Geeks: Tally-Ho, The Bad Man
The Contenders:
2007 Sanford Santa Barbara County Chardonnay, 14.5% abv, $23.99
2007 MacRostie Carneros Chardonnay, 14.1% abv, $15.99
2005 [...]
Vouvray tasting, mk i – assaggio majoralus
The first major official Royal Tannin Bomb Vouvray tasting is in the can.
Tasting Date: 07/31/2009
Tasting Geeks: Tally-Ho, The Bad Man
Tasting Theme: Vouvray, mk i – assaggio majoralus
The Contenders:
2007 Francois Pinon Silex Noir Vouvray, 12.5% abv, $23
2006 Château de Montfort Vouvray, 12.0% abv, $15
2007 Vincent Raimbault “Les Terrages” Val de Loire Vouvray, 12.5% abv, $16
2006 Le [...]
A.D.D. film thoughts about Jan Svankmajer’s 1988 “Alice”
This weekend, upon recommendation from the BadMan, I watched the 1988 film “Alice” by Czech director Jan Svankmajer; a surreal, live action/stop motion retelling of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (AIW). Imagine, if you will, Peter Greenaway, Tim Burton and Veit Helmer co-directing this classic AIW tale, with Hieronymus Bosch and Salvador Dali helming the cameras as [...]
Suave Summer Sauv’s, mk iv – assaggio majoralus
We Royals did our summer kick-off Sauvignon Blanc tasting, with yeah you guessed it the usual contenders and a few new ones.
Contenders
Zuc di Volpe Sauvignon Blanc, Italy, $25
2008 Domaine Ricard Cuvee Les Trois Chenes, Touraine, France, $22
2006 Domaine Henri Bourgeois Haute-Victoire Quincy, Loire Valley, $16.99
2007 Groth Sauvignon Blanc, Napa Valley, $14
Read all about it here [...]
Zinfandel, Tier I, mk iv, affordable – assaggio majoralus
One of The Royal Tannin Bombs most intense Zinfandel tastings – this is the one you did not want to miss. The results are in – here we go.
Speak your mind below.
Killer Cabernet Sauvignon tasting (and I do mean KILLER)
Tally-Ho and I (the Bad Man) attended a local wine merchant’s Top-Flight Cabernet Sauvignon tasting the other night. It was BLIND, but you only got the typical 2 ounce pour, and it was difficult (though I of course was able to pull it off) go back and re-taste, so it wasn’t exactly an ideally thorough [...]
Zinfandel, Tier I, mk iv, affordable – assaggio majoralus (prep)
Well kids, it’s that time again. No, not to worry, it’s not bath time; rather it’s time to hit a few massive gnarlacious Zinfandels. Stay tuned for this Saturday’s (June 13, 2009, A.D.) colossal Zinfandel tasting, where we’ll be sampling the very finest from our previous efforts up against a few new contenders. Yes they’ll [...]
Bordeaux, affordable, Assaggio Minoralus
We here at The Royal Tannin Bombs are always on the prowl for cheap yet outstanding Bordeaux (an oxymoron in the best of times), and we continually revisit this pair from that most affordable of Bordeaux regions, the Côtes de Castillon:
Contenders
2005 La Fleur de Laussac Côtes de Castillon, 14% abv, $19.97
2004 Château d’Aiguilhe Comtes de [...]
WOTM – Wine of the Month [0905] – Chalone Vineyard Estate Grown Pinot Noir 2006
For the Second WOTM (Wine of the Month) we’re featuring the ever so over-esteemed varietal that we here at The Royal Tannin Bombs love to hate, and hate to love. For good reason – it tastes BAD! But we’re all about the “fair” here, so at any rate you can’t slam us for only doing [...]
