Lump Of Coal

Mastroberardino

Radici Taurasi Aglianico 2008

A very exciting example of Campania. Tomato pasta, black earth, leather, tobacco and coal. Acidity is medium high, tannins are round, but still fully present — 7 years ago

Larkmead Vineyards

LMV Salon Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Blend 2010

Hot tar bouquet and coal black in the glass. 4 hour decant. Rich and brawny with loads of blackberry, blueberry and dark chocolate. Bordeaux blend but domestic style. — 8 years ago

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No it isn’t @Phil A happy Boxing Day sir!!
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Agree @David L Larkmead is one of the oldest...
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@Bill Bender Bill thanks we had a great Boxing Day Cheers 🍷🎿

Rainer Sauer

Escherndorfer Lump Erste Lage Silvaner 2015

Very good. Can't say I've had much Silvaner, so I reckon I would have guessed this as a wooded chard (old oak prolly) if blinded. Excellent interplay of richness (texture, fruit, and oak) and acidity. — 8 years ago

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Bersano

Barolo Nebbiolo 1977

Birth year wine for me opened on Dad's 70th birthday. Double magnum. Cork intact. Great nose. Taste of coal tar, cola. Tannins totally resolved. 40 years in a bottle, opened nicely over the night. — 8 years ago

Hanssens Artisanaal bvba

Oudbeitje Strawberry Lambic Ale

DeRat is an amazing bar in Utrecht. Vast selection of sours. This one is quite peculiar. Get strawberry and burnt wood on the nose, then it hits you with powerful sourness that burns in the aftertaste, and finished with an interesting oak+butter taste. The guy pouring it separated the sediment, which surprisingly smells like char coal. Too many compounds here. — 9 years ago

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Kusuda

Martinborough Riesling 2012

Good Riesling, reminds me of Tasmanian coal river valley wines . Nice texture and fruit — 10 years ago

Mazzoni

Piemonte Barbera 2009

Definitely in the top third of Barbera's I've had. Nice fruit that would have gone well with salametto and parmigiano reggiano. Instead, we were grilling flank steak and chicken and thinking about the ones who left their blood and breath on foreign soil so that we could have the freedoms we enjoy. If that doesn't put a lump in your throat, then you have some reading to do. — 10 years ago

Arnaldo-Caprai

Collepiano Sagrantino di Montefalco 2011

Very dense color from ruby to violet. Nose is full of jam blueberries, tobacco, coal, fig, silicon, balsamic. Acidity is still pretty high, tannins are plenty! — 7 years ago

Bay of Fires

Tasmania Pinot Noir 2013

Medium crimson in colour. Notes of savoury oak - a trifle overdone but not unpleasant. A blend of fruit from several of Tassies Pinot regions including Derwent River, Coal River and the East Coast. A well blended Pinot showing why Tasmania is the go to area for Aussie winemakers to grow Pinot Noir. — 8 years ago

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Château Léoville Barton

Saint-Julien Red Bordeaux Blend 2001

Earthy funk quickly evolved into pencil & cigar box followed by cassis & a lovely faint floral perfume ~ still fairly tannic but showing solid underlying array of dark fruits ~ lovely anniversary wine enjoyed w boiled peanut & wild mushroom pate, butterbean hummus, creamy lump blue crab& artichoke dip, followed by slow roasted NC Duck and Heritage Pork Chop — 8 years ago

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Looks tasty 😋

Domaine de Chevalier

Clos des Lunes Lune d'Argent Bordeaux Blanc Sec Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend

Love their red wine & this £65 white is quite unique showing the unique terroir of this region 👍

🍇 80% Sauv Blanc & 20% Semillon

🍷 Golden yellow straw

👃 Smokey melon butter, smashed flint rock, charred orange zest, coal & burnt ash w/ dried pineapple, apple, citrus, banana & refined oil - quite unusual

👄 Med+ body of creamy flinty mineral & ash driven light tropical, young green fruit & citrus in med acidity

🎯 Long, touch dry, ash, flinty mineral & soft tropics, fine citrus & green fruit finale
— 8 years ago

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Uh oh no hiding anywhere now 😁

Pressing Matters

R0 Coal River Valley Riesling 2014

Some of Tassie's finest fruit, a splash of botrytis with searing acidity — 9 years ago

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Michael Fröhlich

Escherndorfer Lump Grosses Gewächs Riesling 2011

A hint of petrol on the nose with hyacinth flowers. Dried apricots, and orange cream on the palate. Richer than 2010, but nicely balanced. — 10 years ago

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC)

Montrachet Chardonnay

if you or someone you know hates Chardonnay, as I sometimes hear, this little number - 2011 DRC #Montrachet 💥- will effect an instant conversion. It is inconvertibly beautiful and pure, with a lemon-mineral core, joined by shades of tangerine and salted caramel balanced by an invigorating citric minerality, and a golden, silky persistence that stretches out like a cheetah's paw. 🐾 🐅 Even the residue of the empty glass seduces the sniff 👃. This is a more elegant and balanced style, not the creamy honeycomb voluptuousness of 2005 or 2000 DRC Montrachet, which are also sublime. Only 3,178 bottles on Earth. Perfect with Galatorie's jumbo lump crab salad. 🦀 #Burgundy #wine
— 8 years ago

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Barnett Vineyards

Spring Mountain District Cabernet Sauvignon 2005

Decanted, and opened nicely, lots of minerals, fruity nose, burnt wood, coal, smooth a little spice on the finish, great wine! — 8 years ago

Bodegas Izadi

Reserva Rioja Tempranillo 2013

Extra 0.1 for the company, tastes great with a lump of ice! X — 8 years ago

Antoine Sanzay

Les Salles Martin Saumur Chenin Blanc 2014

Beautiful minerality. The pairing with a full jumbo lump crab cake is one of the best marriages of food and wine I've ever had. — 8 years ago

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Horst Sauer

Escherndorfer Lump GG trocken Silvaner 2008

Vintage 2008 - amazing fine Silvaner lots of minerals pleasurewine — 9 years ago

Berry, Daniel P. and 10 others liked this

Horst Sauer

Escherndorfer Lump Riesling 2013

Slightly spritzy. Could crush gallons of this! Delish (albeit like the Muller Thurgau a bit more) — 10 years ago

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Very territorial to write your name on all your wine
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@Bill Bender ha! Didn't realize that made it into the picture, it was a gift!
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Right...right....HNY I hope ur enjoying NC

Lump of Coal

Dark Holiday Stout

Classic stout without any cloying sweetness. I totally deserve this lump of coal — 12 years ago