ChangeMe
Grape Picker
Posts:14
 | | 07/08/2003 2:35 PM |
| Union Square Wines is offering this world-class wine for $20, which is a hard offer to pass up. A dangerous sticke. There's a rich, spicy toffee-accented depth that preludes a long, slow glow in your throat. Think of it as a designer drug wine.
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stemor
Collierville, TN
Wine Thief
Posts:2818
| | 07/08/2003 2:49 PM |
| Agreed on the quality, although I tend to go with the Chambers Tokay. When I want a sticky Muscat I go with Bullers, but the quality is there for both types from both producers. Any one of these four combinations (Chambers/Bullers + Tokay/Muscat) is a great value.
Even better value: Buy them from The Wine Club, Wine Exchange, or Sam's ... you can get them for $12 or less.
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Winetex
Austin, Texas
Master of Wine
Posts:10799
| | 07/08/2003 2:54 PM |
| I'm bringing a few of these to New Orleans this weekend for the soirees.
Stemor - it's not too late!
Moderators - you might want to move this one to the dessert wine section. | | | |
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ChangeMe
Master of Wine
Posts:11169
| | 07/08/2003 3:36 PM |
| | I prefer the Buller, but the Chambers is still an excellent wine. | | | |
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love_cab_chard
Master of Wine
Posts:12497
| | 07/08/2003 3:38 PM |
| | Winetex: that's the 1 you bought for me, correct? | | | |
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Pool Boy
Laurl, MD (DC suburb)
Master of Wine
Posts:13711
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| 07/08/2003 5:46 PM |
| | I think Dr. T brought this to DC back in May for a micro-offline, and I liked it quite a bit. I **think** I liked the Bullers just a bit better though. | |
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Winetex
Austin, Texas
Master of Wine
Posts:10799
| | 07/08/2003 6:41 PM |
| LCC - Yes indeed.
For me the main difference in these wines is the weight - the Bullers are heavyweight stickies and the Chambers' are lighter with more delicate flavors. I have all four of them (the Buller and Chambers Tokays and Muscats NV) and pick them based on what the dessert is going to be. | | | |
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Bradley Molzen
Bayonne, NJ
Wine Lover
Posts:4990
| | 07/17/2003 12:54 AM |
| Seek introduced me to the Chambers.
I'm with Stemor on this all the way. Chambers Tokay and the Buller Muscat are tops. | |
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ChangeMe
Grape Destemmer
Posts:51
| | 09/14/2003 3:56 AM |
| There are many varieties of Chambers which can be very confusing. For example there is:
-Chambers Rosewood Botrytis Tokay
-Chambers Rosewood Rutherglen Liqueur Muscat
-Chambers Rosewood Rutherglen Liqueur Tokay
-Chambers Rosewood Rutherglen Liqueur Muscadelle Tokay (the only one I've tried -- is it the same as the one above it?  )
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Seek
Upstate NY
Wine Thief
Posts:2772
| | 09/14/2003 12:45 PM |
| I do prefer the Chambers Tokay to the Buller, but the Buller Muscat to the Chambers. Both are very easy on the wallet and offer large bang for the buck.
Yes Revlis, I still remember you holding your nose in the glass of Chambers Tokay for what seemed 10 minutes or so......  | | | |
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Bradley Molzen
Bayonne, NJ
Wine Lover
Posts:4990
| | 09/14/2003 2:42 PM |
| Seek, hahahaha. Yes... i loved how many things we were able to discern in the Chambers. That was a lot of fun.
:-)
turns out, there is tons of the stuff available in NJ now. Seems like the distributor released some more.
I'm thinking of picking some more Chambers up. | |
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Dr_Tannin
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2498
| | 09/14/2003 3:50 PM |
| Actually, the confusion is that every year these wines are released and it becomes hard once in cellar to distinguish since they are all nonvintage. They differ in taste, however, though only slightly.
The penultimate release of the NV Chambers Special Muscat ($35)of 2-3 years ago remains my favorite. I had the good fortune to share one w kybo in 2001. Last year, they changed the name to Grand Muscat and to my palate it was not as tasty (3 or so pts less) despite similar RP ratings. Neither were the basic regular versions. The current release, which has just arrived here and is rated in the last WA issue, I will purchase later today. It has retained the same name but is higher in price.
I prefer Chambers Muscats to all others (Campbells, Stanton/Kileen,Bullers,Trevor Jones, Dutschke). And while I prefer Buller's Tokay to their Muscat by the slimmest of margins, neither are as good as Chambers versions, IMO.
The best Oz Muscat I have ever had was the Rare Chambers, also of 2 years ago release. If it were not so expensive, my cellar would be stocked full of those.
Despite our palatal differences among these, no one can argue that these are not high quality stickies for the price. The best thing is that few people know or buy these, so availability to the adventurous is high. In our area, I am the only person to buy these. One gentleman comes from Delaware to buy some, but that's it. | | | |
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Jeremy Matthew
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2067
| | 09/16/2003 2:27 AM |
| Bman,
The Muscadelle is the Tokay. They've started doing that to allow people the chance to work out the differance between the Muscat and thte Tokay. | | | |
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Seek
Upstate NY
Wine Thief
Posts:2772
| | 09/17/2003 1:29 AM |
| | Dr. T, you are correct, I have placed my different lots of Chambers at different sides of the cellar in order to keep track of which release is which. I am holding onto the Chambers from last year the ones in which got 96 points from RP. The Rare from 2 years ago is still available up here, but I have not brought myself to purchase one yet. | | | |
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ChangeMe
Grape Destemmer
Posts:51
| | 09/19/2003 2:21 AM |
| Thanks for the clarification  | | | |
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Bradley Molzen
Bayonne, NJ
Wine Lover
Posts:4990
| | 09/19/2003 2:48 AM |
| | Bought one, will try it this weekend. | |
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ChangeMe
Grape Destemmer
Posts:51
| | 09/20/2003 2:52 AM |
| I bet you'll soon be running out to buy 10 more! I started with 3, quickly bought 8 more (and to that date I have never bought a full case of anything!), and have bought maybe a dozen more since then. I'd probably buy even more if there was more here to buy, as everyone we serve it to loves it, it's cheap (relatively), and it will last forever, and almost forever even after opening.
Oh yeah, did I mention my new job for the Aussie Sweet Wine Federation? | | | |
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Bradley Molzen
Bayonne, NJ
Wine Lover
Posts:4990
| | 09/20/2003 3:09 AM |
| hehehe. bman, I look forward to drinking it this saturday night.... this, and the LBV.
Hopefully the pupster is working on sunday. | |
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texaswino
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2184
| | 09/20/2003 1:21 PM |
| | you will love it. One of my favorite "stickies" from down under. | | | |
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ChangeMe
Grape Destemmer
Posts:51
| | 09/20/2003 11:55 PM |
| | I think Parker just gave this 94 points. Though I say again, how can one expect a NV wine blended with many different vintages over many years to be the same year in and year out. Makes life hard for a wine critic, I guess..... | | | |
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