There are still four slots open for a Green Gables dinner in Beach Haven on LBI.

Dave MCI will be in town, so what does a good Vinocellar forumite do? Get together and drink wine of course....

August 16th, Green Gables, 8pm.

Going to have some Rieslings and Syrahs.

Reply here if interested. JB, DaveMCI, and myself will be hitting the links day after on Sunday morning if that strikes your fancy as well.

Attendees thus far:

Revlis (1)
JB (2)
Jazin (2)
DaveMCI (1)

Maybes:

Four others.

Sorry to miss this. Cannot find any one to do the babysitting thing.

Yeah, this killed me too. I have a house full of kids this weekend.
Otherwise, Mrs B and I would have been SO there!

See ya tonight...

Hey everyone,

Lots of great wine saturday night! Lots of people too.... 15 we had?? Great time.... glad to see you Mr. DaveMCI, Also great to see the regulars, jazins, ttepper and friend, JB's, and some newcomers that maybe jb can convince to join our site. :-)

Green Gables was very accomodating as always.. love that place.. .the goat cheese ravioli was amazing!!!!!!

Cheers everyone.... great Riesling/Syrah night....

Details? Let us live vicariously.

info.....................

Another great offliner...It was great to see you all again...Good meeting DaveMCI...After dinner, the Jazin's, DaveMCI, Braden and I went for a drink and a cigar at a local bar...got into bed at 5am...it was a good time...See you all soon...

The reds:
01 Novy Cellars Syrah
00 Columbia Crest Reserve Syrah
99 L'Aventure Optimus (52% Syrah, 44% Cabernet, and 4% Zinfandel)
01 Melville High Density Syrah
01 Pax Russian River Syrah
97 Manzano Syrah Toscana Podere il Bosco 1.5L
01 Clarendon Hills Shiraz
00 Brothers in Arms Shiraz
99 Kiona Cab

Dessert wines:
NV Hietz Inkgrade Port
Arqueso Sherry

I brought a 97 Doisy Vedrines but I dropped it when getting it out of the trunk...

My foggy recollection of the reds:

01 Novy Cellars Syrah - 88pts
00 Columbia Crest Reserve Syrah - 87 pts
99 L'Aventure Optimus (52% Syrah, 44% Cabernet, and 4% Zinfandel) - 91 pts (but I could detect the Cab in the blend)
01 Melville High Density Syrah - 92 pts
01 Pax Russian River Syrah - 89 pts
97 Manzano Syrah Toscana Podere il Bosco 1.5L - 87 pts
01 Clarendon Hills Shiraz - 88 pts
00 Brothers in Arms Shiraz - 90 pts
99 Kiona Cab - 87 pts

Dessert wines:
NV Hietz Inkgrade Port - 87 pts
Argueso Sherry Pedro Ximenez - 92 pts

jb

Sounds like another blast. Kewl.

THanks JB for another night of fine food and wine! It was great to meet DaveMCI!
I promised TTepper I would post the whites:(from my tiny wine-stained post-it notes)
Piper Heidseck Brut- a very nice sparkler
Christoffel Urziger Wurzgarten Reisling 2001- a little sweet, spritzy-really fun and enjoyable, my favorite white of the nt.
J&HA Strub Niersteiner Patenberg Reisling Spatlese 2001
Mosel Saar Ruwer Gustabfullung 2002 Ockfener Bockstein Reisling Kabinett- was a black and gold label
Donnhoff Oberhauser leistenberg Reisling Kabinett 2001
Joh Jos Prum 1999 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Spatlese(our table- DaveMCI,Revlis,TTepper,Braden,Mr Jazin said had nose of rusted septic pipe- but it tasted good)
(Sorry if any mis-spellings, those Reisling lables are quite confusing)