Luck By Design

Toshimori SAKE Brewery

'Good Luck' Unfiltered Akaiwa Omachi Oibara

Always I came here, when I came back from outside of Japan:) Very tasty for good fortune!! — 9 years ago

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Soshi Takao

Soshi Takao

Kaiun is not brewed by Toshimori Shuzo, by Doi Shuzo.
Yuri

Yuri

OMG!! I didn't recognized it...

Duval-Leroy

Cuvée Design Paris Brut Champagne Blend

Christopher Bates
9.4

Fantastic bottle! I love the creamy ripe autalitic character of this! What is this wine? — 10 years ago

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Michael Descamps

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Haven't seen the Cuvée Paris bottle in a good 6 or 7 years in the States. Neat find, @Christopher Bates

Cullen Wines

Reserve Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot Blend 1991

60% CS 30% Merlot 10% CF, 1991 was hot and dry summer in margs, perfect for design an outstanding red wine!
Beautiful nose : plum notes
Awesome palate : fresh red fruit, cassis, strawberry, # long finish! Nice acidity ;)
Good experience!!!
— 11 years ago

Bodega Maetierra

Libalis Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains Blend 2013

Delicious white wine from Spain. This mellow, slightly fruity wine pairs surprisingly well with spicy Indian food. Love the funky design of the packaging too! #Libalis#datenight — 11 years ago

Domaine Valette

Vieilles Vignes Pouilly-Vinzelles Chardonnay 2009

The owner has no internet connection, no phone, nada! Good luck buying from the source unless you make the journey! — 12 years ago

Dirty & Rowdy

Shake Ridge Ranch Mourvedre 2011

CS
9.3

THIS... is... Seriously. Good. Phucking. shtuff. Surprisingly good...? Maybe. Luckily good..? Perhaps. Unless you've met Dirty: Which most of the wine drinking USA has -but, rather, intentionally fucking good. AND -possibly luckily too -as long as luck has something to do with exceptionally talented farming combined with tremendous desire(s) to make vibrant and ridiculously love-able fermented grape juice of pure integrity and a casually particular design. This wine is that friend you only get to see once a year, that one you cannot wait to see again. The wine is too young to rate with any opinion other than Rawesome, and while I've only had one bottle, I've certainly not had enough to offer an opinion against Rawsome -therefore tasting notes be damned -yet, this can be said: here is a clean wine, lacking brett or VA or other 'flaws'; a bright, refreshing jubilant anthem of untainted wine, an ode to a grape that will likely become California's bastard child once popularity hits and Dirty & Rowdy prices climb to astronomical, near Tempier-like pricing and ficcichlty to come by. (I liked ficcichlty over difficulty since spellcheck kept it purposely so did I.). Oh wait, they're already ficcichlt to come by. Damn it. — 13 years ago

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Anita und Hans Nittnaus

Pannobile Red Blend 2013

Finally some good luck with Austrian reds in Vienna this weekend. Good balance overall, with black pepper and dark red fruit prominent. Pretty tannic still, yet also juicy and fairly persistent. Half bottle. — 10 years ago

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Riddley Walker

Riddley Walker

I like the concept behind Pannobile wines. Maybe it's used as a marketing tool, but at its core the approach is very interesting and kind of noble.
Chris MacLean

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I had no idea. Thanks for pointing that out @Riddley Walker . Need to try a few more examples.

Cigar City Brewing

Jai Alai India Pale Ale

Easy drinking on its own, but I imagine it being amazing with some fried food goodness. Malty with young pine notes. Cool design — 11 years ago

Stag's Leap Wine Cellars

Fay-Fifty 50th Anniversary Cabernet Sauvignon 2011

Well balanced delicious cab. Enjoyed it to the last drop. Good luck trying to find it. — 11 years ago

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Shypoke Cellars

Olivias Block Calistoga Sangiovese 2007

I'm partial to this winery, as Peter Heitz is a friend and I helped design the label, but this vintage is probably better now than it was after first bottled. Above & beyond any Sangio. that I've ever had. — 11 years ago

Jamsheed

Warner Beechworth Syrah 2012

Louis Schofield
9.3

Juicy and supple with a touch of graphite for good luck — 12 years ago

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Corvus Cellars

Cuvée Cabernet Sauvignon Blend 2010

Good luck finding this... Surprised the people at Delectable could identify it... Small, small winery in Washington State... Turned on to it by some of my brothers friends in Seattle... May not be Quiceda Creek, but very good. Bought two cases myself, LOL — 12 years ago

Randall Hopkins

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Have you tried the 2011?

C'est la vie

Vin de Pays d'Oc Syrah 2010

Light, floral, cool packaging design — 13 years ago

Jean Claude Mas

Le Pioch Viognier 2014

@ 5 euro an incredible value - if you live in Montpellier and buy it at the local store! Here In the US, good luck finding something comparable. — 10 years ago

Cedar Knoll Vineyard Co (Palmaz)

Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2012

Meg
9.3

As I put my sweet baby girl to bed after a looong day, snuggling with her in her new "big girl bed", I found a stray eyelash on her cheek. Maybe I'm alone in this, but for as long as I can remember I have been superstitiously transferring these from one finger to another...and if I blow the lash off while making a wish, "they" say it will come true. I tried wishing this was a 2007 Screaming Eagle - or that I could magically be beamed onto David Lentine's Napa trip for the night (ha!). Alas, no such luck. Seriously thou, with my kids' lashes, I have always wished the same thing: "may you have a wonderful life." But I made this addition: "may you always have the courage to be yourself." #inthistogether #overturnHB2 #onlylove — 10 years ago

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Meg

Meg

Hahaha, luvvvv it! I was living vicariously through you last week!
Mike R

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Me too Meg
Yancey King

Yancey King

Love this post :) will Def try the wine

Domaine de Tamary

Côtes de Provence Rosé Blend 2014

Light, crisp and delicious! The label design leaves something to be desired but the wine makes up for it. — 11 years ago

Château Phélan Ségur

Saint-Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend 2003

Juicy plum, serious but lyrical. Wish I had some steak frites right now. A heaping plate of porky lentils for good luck will do! Happy NYE 2014! — 11 years ago

Heitz Cellar

Martha's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 1985

Very memorable wine, you can really taste the age of this one and the classic mint/eucalyptus. Good luck getting the cork out too! — 12 years ago

Casa Nuestra

Dorado Late Harvest White Blend 2010

An awesome winery my brother-in-law found by luck, this place had a very hippie vibe. The wines were delicious. Although I bought a dessert wine the day before at another vineyard, this one was too good to pass up. — 13 years ago