Hooper 206 Vintners
Ramey Wine Cellars
Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2012
“In 2011, Ramey bottled a far greater percentage of his juice into the entry-level Claret than normal, and saved only the best lots for the Cabernets, a decision that has paid off handsomely.”
- Antonio Galloni, The Wine Advocate, #206, April 2013
Our appellation Cabernet represents a combination of hillside and valley floor vineyard sites. Aging on fine lees incorporates the oak so that the 18 to 24 months spent in about 50% new barrels is barely noticeable. As with all our wines, it is fermented with native yeasts and bacteria, lightly fined with egg whites and then bottled without filtration. — 11 years ago
Valenzano
Shamong Reserve Red Blend
Delicious. Floral and on the sweet side. I pass by this vineyard on 206 all the time! — 11 years ago
Narragansett
Lager
Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got...lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces.
Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, boson's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He's a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb. — 11 years ago
Antoine Pin
Wine Buyer Kroger/QFC
Our post-wedding hotel champagne!! As good as my rel told be it would be. Just perfect. 96pts / $44 GrapeX/206 — 11 years ago