Slow Dance Wines
Greer
Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon 2014
Duckhorn Vineyards
Napa Valley Merlot 2011
Opening the bottle to breathe the subtle oakiness hits you with some spiciness and a hint of dark fruit. Tasting it made my mouth dance. It is smooth with very little tannins. Mind you, merlots are my last choice, however this one sat around long enough to be very good. — 7 years ago
Hartford Court
Fog Dance Vineyard Chardonnay 2013
Lovely wine, has a little salinity to it in my opinion — 7 years ago
Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande
Pauillac Red Bordeaux Blend 2000
Really well made, beautifully balanced and slow to reveal its depth. Disclaimer: it's hard for me to get past hints of Brett so the nose was a bit of a turn off, but it was not enough to make it difficult to enjoy. Fancy lil wine! — 7 years ago
Paul Jaboulet Aîné
La Chapelle Hermitage Syrah
This has beautiful aromas of plums , dark cherries and pepper plus maybe a little cedar. All of that exploded in your mouth with touches of tobacco, leather, ripe dark fruits and a bit of licorice that mix with wonderful tannins and dance a ballet in your mouth. Smooth and sexy finish. I can't wait to revisit the 2010 in five to seven years to see how it develops. — 8 years ago
Crawford Family Wines
Walk Slow Pinot Noir 2013
Classic elegance. Ultimate tranquility in a bottle with strength and substance. — 8 years ago
Brutocao
Slow Lope'n Vineyard Pinot Noir 2012
Good mid price Pinot — 8 years ago
Château Ducru-Beaucaillou
Saint-Julien Red Bordeaux Blend 1961
Ex-Chateau bottle. Testament to perfect storage. Light Amber edge with a darker core. Started off full of toast and just a whiff of brett. Slow ox for 2 hrs then poured. Amazing life for a 54yr old wine still in its stride. Light and dark fruit with seamless integrity and polish. Classic old BDX. After the initial funk blew off it kept developing in the glass. I could drink this all night long. Awesome — 9 years ago
Château Carbonnieux
Pessac-Léognan White Bordeaux Blend 2013
Opening slow but after very nice with exotic fruits — 9 years ago
Harbor Ridge Winery
Carmen's Last Dance Red Blend
This was a sweat and smooth wine. Enjoyed this a lot — 10 years ago
Dirty & Rowdy
Rosewood Vineyards Old Vine Mourvedre 2012
This is a happy dance wine, of which Hardy and I did a few today! — 10 years ago
Adega Familiar Eladio Piñeiro
Envidia Cochina Slow is Beautiful Albariño
Slow post-18.4 Saturday. First day without K (Utah spring break) — 6 years ago
Marchesi Antinori
Tignanello Toscana Super Tuscan Blend 2001
2001 SuperTuscan heavyweight match with Tignanello vs Flaccianello. This one got off to a slow start in the early rounds with a muted nose and flat palate, but after a couple hours was sparring vigorously with its dark well-extracted fruit, tobacco, and suede. Was it enough to take the title? Perhaps not, as I think the aromatics were never quite up to the task - but bravo ragazzo! — 7 years ago
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Château Margaux
Premier Grand Cru Classé Margaux Red Bordeaux Blend 1955
What a beautifully graceful wine! A bit muted on the nose (slow ox for three hours - perhaps I should have decanted) but one of the most amazingly expressive palates I have experienced for a very long time. All the elements in perfect equilibrium; one of the rare times that I would actually apply the term 'smooth' to a wine. Tannins still lightly peppery, poised acidity, and an insanely long velvety finish that kept revealing hidden layers of complexity. Like a Burgundian peacock's tail that keeps expanding, adding new layers of graceful shades and patterns to the rolling tapestry of flavour. — 7 years ago
Orin Swift Cellars
Machete Petite Sirah Blend 2014
Tonight we are drinking Machete 2014 California red wine bottled by Orin Swift Cellars. The one with the naked lady on the front of the bottle standing beside her car with the door open. Hummmmm. Well the cork was well preserved. The color is dark and the legs are long and slow. The bouquet is blackberry cobbler. The initial palate is slamming with sweet black currant - whatever that is so Im guessing because I have never tasted a currant. However, I just ordered the juice! The flavor is blackberry and cherry! The finish is very dry with a short ending of vanilla and a tart cherry pie. Simply Devine! I want another sip! It is sweet but very dry! I love it! — 8 years ago
Château Calon-Ségur
Saint-Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend 2005
Loamy earth, dusty cherries with mushrooms, spiced tobacco, underripe strawberries, smoked wood and cassis. That was just the nose. Palate is a little more unforgiving with more wood, tobacco and spice wrapped in acid and tannins. 8h slow ox and 2h decant and this barely unfurled by last glass. Either 8h decant or 10 more years in the cellar? Whose that patient when life is so short? — 8 years ago
Château Léoville Barton
Saint-Julien Red Bordeaux Blend 1998
Slow to open, but delightful when it did — 8 years ago
R. López de Heredia
Viña Tondonia Reserva Rioja Tempranillo Blend 2002
Crazy good paired with dipping into gamba al ajillo (emphasis added), at Napa's groovy/real Zuzu, catching a classic deeply dirty nose while still sporting sun-drenched fruit that initially reworks one's first blush front mouth with an iodine edge that morfs into red and black fruit edgy with acid/tannin slow dancing to the depths and begging for another pinch of broth soaked chewy freshly baked bread and the associated next swig of this sweet juice...rhythmically stellar by day or by night😎🌌👣🍷🌀🎼
PS hit Zuzu (friendly, delicious and real...
— 9 years ago
Il Palagio - Sting
When We Dance Chianti Sangiovese Blend
Sting did a really great job with creating When We Dance, it's a lovely wine. — 11 years ago
Kapcsándy Family Winery
Roberta's Reserve State Lane Vineyard Merlot Cabernet Franc 2011
Slow O for 10 hrs. Pretty Cabernet nose and delicate, elegant palate. Nice balance but feels really light. Almost no tannin. Not what I expect in a Kap GV. Vintage specific, I suppose, but the 2011 Roberta’s from last night had much more tannin. Very food friendly wine. — 6 years ago
Slow Press
Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon 2015
I snuck aboard the space station and made my way to the holding cell where I was told the princess was being held. Upon breaking down the door, I was confronted by a short person in a diaper and odd headdress who said "I'm sorry, but the princess is in another death star".
About that time all the alarms in the space station started going off.
After some brief firefights I found myself cornered, my only escape to done down a shoot into a garbage compactor. So I did. Once in the trash compactor I met a friendly monster called a Dianoga. We shared a lovely bottle of Slow Press while the walls of the compactor slowly closed in on us.
Fortunately for me, I'm the hero of this tale and, as such, made a timely escape, rescued the princess (eventually), and managed to do it all without realizing I had spilled wine on myself. — 7 years ago
Morlet Family Vineyards
Coeur de Vallée Cabernet Sauvignon
@Mike R @David L @Joe Lucca @Ron R @Paul T The WOTN was a beauty so generously given to me by my Bud Paul Treadway! Thanks Paul!!! The tasting notes between the Beau Vigne Estate and Morlet's Coeur de Vallee are eerily similar. The true differentiation between the 2 is Morlet's seem less integration at this time. My buddy Kirk @Kirk Alexander always says "The test of a great wine is when nothing jumps out at you". This particular bottle did just that. Every person this evening commented on the fact that it was such a superbly balanced wine. It was dialed back ever so slightly in all the right spots for it to dance on your palate effortlessly.
Thank you Paul for a stellar bottle!!
It was enjoyed by friends outdoors on this beautiful S FL cool night. What else could one ask for?
— 7 years ago
To Øl
Fuck Art- Let's Dance Red Wine Barrel Aged Tripel
Inviting nose of cream and citrus and dried orange peel...,refreshing yet hefty tripel comes through. Great! — 8 years ago
Taittinger
Comtes de Champagne Brut Blanc de Blancs Champagne Chardonnay 2005
Outstanding. Ethereal. Sugar plumb fairies dance in the season floating across my palate with arms full of toasted brioche, citrus zest. So light. Must drink at temp, as the fairies start falling if they warm up. That's not a pleasant experience. — 8 years ago
Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe
Télégramme Châteauneuf-du-Pape Red Rhone Blend 2013
What a great chateau9! Super texture, wonderful dance partner for all kinds of cheese and meats. Lamb, beef, Comte, bleu. Great! — 9 years ago
Emmanuel Rouget
Echézeaux Grand Cru Pinot Noir 1998
Wow. Started slow and blossomed. — 9 years ago
Château Doisy-Védrines
Sauternes Sémillon Sauvignon Blanc Blend 1996
Half-bottle. The wine was medium amber in colour and offered orange peel, apple, honeycomb, caramel, smoke, spices, sherry and a mouldy note on the nose. On the palate the wine showed orange, peach, apple, cane sugar, caramel, smoke, spices, creamy honey, some coffee, a hint of chocolate, sherry, mild black tea and a mouldy note, paired with medium-plus acidity, a creamy honey mouthfeel and very good length. Judged by this half-bottle the wine has just passed its plateau and started its slow journey on the downward slope. A good, medium-bodied Sauternes with lots of botrytis character. Drink now. 89 — 10 years ago
Justin Wittkopf
Slow O for 6 hr prior to drinking. This really great. Seems perfectly proportioned to my tastes. Not too sweet. Great frame. Not hot. Seems a bit more open than previous Greer bottlings I have had. Likely from the blend of the two clones previously split for the Pott Arsenal and Greer, but maybe vintage, too. Whatever the case, I like it. — 6 years ago