Well, the time has finally arrived – the spark that lit this wine club and website nearly a year ago has culminated in The Royal’s 2008 Tier I Merlot tasting.
Drum roll please…
And the nominees are:
Duckhorn Vineyards, 2004 Napa Valley Estate Grown Merlot, 14.5% $85
Leonetti Cellars, 2006 Columbia Valley Merlot, 14.3% $80
Luna Vineyards, 2004 Napa Valley [...]
Well, he’s a blast from Bad Man’s past – now announcing the newest Royal Tannin Bomb member: Pimp Daddy!!!.
Now let’s all play nice and extend him a warm smelly middle finger… wait, no, I mean a big sloppy warm hug!!
Good to have you on board to liven up the harem action, my good pimply man. [...]
There are many great wineries I’ve enjoyed over the last 20 years. We all know companies open and just as surely close, but it is sometimes surprising to me how a winery – one that owns the vines (“Produced and bottled by…” on the label indicates that the winery owns at least 85% of the [...]
The Royal Tannin Bomb’s Petite Sirah tasting is now up for your perusal.
The Contenders:
Ridge 2002 California Lytton Estate Petite Sirah Dry Creek Valley 14.7% alcohol, 84% Petite Sirah, 16% Zinfandel, $35
Christopher Creek 2006 Estate Bottled Reserve Petite Sirah Russian River Valley 14.9% alcohol, $35
Anderson’s Conn Valley Vineyards 2005 Black Label Green Valley Petite Sirah 15.5% [...]
Despite what I said before, I’ll go ahead and enlighten you all with the Top 10 all-time greatest albums. If you don’t have all of these and absolutely adore them, you (a) don’t like music and (b) I can’t say this or I’ll offend all of you.
Here they are, in descending order [...]
Despite what I said before, to focus on the absolute best records we can further trim the list to this:
Bauhaus – In the Flat Field (1980)
Bjork – Vespertine (2001)
Cocteau Twins – Garlands/Peel Sessions (1983)
The Cure – [...]
Okay, well, if I’m forced to only take 1 album (well, for the most part) from each band, the list could be further trimmed to resemble something like this:
Bauhaus – In the Flat Field (1980)
Bjork – Vespertine (2001)
The Clash – London Calling (1979)
Cocteau Twins – [...]
This is it, the final, tightest, list of greatest albums of all time. There’s no such thing as a top 10 – that is too limiting.
Bauhaus – In the Flat Field (1980)
Bauhaus – Mask (1981)
Bauhaus – [...]
To continue with the previous two posts, this is about as consolidated a list as can be made, without serious sacrifices. There are 85 records here.
Bauhaus – In the Flat Field (1980)
Bauhaus – Mask (1981)
Bauhaus – [...]
Since we’re on a music bender, here are the best 133 albums of all time, in alphabetical order by artists, and then chronologically within artist.
Bauhaus – In the Flat Field (1980)
Bauhaus – Mask (1981)
Bauhaus – [...]
