September 12, 2025 • 40 mins
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SIPS – Get ready for an engaging journey through some exquisite wines from Napa Valley! In this episode, our hosts dive into a delightful lineup featuring Chandon's iconic sparkling wines, including the Chandon Brut and Brut Rosé, followed by a selection of robust reds from Post and Beam and Maris. They’ll also explore the luxurious Chappellet Pritchard Hill Cabernet Sauvignon, a true gem from the region.
With plenty of laughter, spirited discussions, and detailed tasting notes, our hosts will rate each wine on a scale from 1 to 5, sharing their impressions and perfect food pairings along the way. Whether you're a seasoned wine enthusiast or just starting your exploration, this episode promises to be both entertaining and informative!
7:35 CHANDON Brut California 3 SIPS
11:43 CHANDON Brut Rose California 4 SIPS
19:09 Post and Beam Carneros Chardonnay 2023 4 SIPS
23:44 Post and Beam Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 4 SIPS
28:27 Merus Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2019 4 SIPS
32:58 Chappellet Pritchard Hill Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 5 SIPS
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>> Announcer (00:00):
On the next episode of Sips, Suds and
Smokes.
>> Brent (00:03):
This is a wine episode. So here are the wines we're going to
be discussing today. We have the
Chandon Brut California. We have the
Chandon Brut Rose California. From
Post and Beam, we have the Post and beam Carnera
Chardonnay 2023. The post
and beam Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2022.
(00:25):
We have the Maris Napa Valley Cabernet
SauVignon 2019.
And we have the Chappellet Pritchard
Hill Cabernet Sauvignon, um,
2021.
>> Harm (00:37):
Oh, my God.
>> Brent (00:38):
Yeah.
>> Harm (00:41):
Their Pritchard Hill cab. They who's the Jefferson's used
this to age their, uh, bourbon in that.
One of the. One of the few wine finished bourbons
I love. Pritchard Hill makes good stuff, man.
>> Announcer (00:53):
We'll be right back after this break.
(01:17):
Brought to you almost live from the dude in the
basement studios. Why? Because that's where the
good stuff is. It sips, suds and
smokes with your smoke and host the good old
boys.
(01:50):
And now it's sipping.
>> Harm (01:59):
Hey.
>> Brent (01:59):
Yes. It's seven time again. Welcome to this sips episode
where everything good in life is worth discussing.
Or not really. Or maybe.
>> Harm (02:07):
You know what? I, uh, used to think we did
discuss everything. I know sexy times is off the list
for you.
>> Brent (02:14):
Yeah.
>> Harm (02:16):
But I heard a disturbing story earlier today.
>> Brent (02:19):
Yeah, so did I. From your wife. And it's just gross.
>> Harm (02:21):
It was from Justin. Just as disturbing stories. Oh, no.
>> Brent (02:23):
Justin's. Yeah, that was.
>> Harm (02:24):
Those are the worst.
>> Bob (02:25):
Well, what's wrong with pie?
>> Harm (02:26):
I'm gonna have you think
it would be an American pie situation, but it's not. It's much worse than that.
>> Brent (02:32):
Fortunately, there's a V.A. uh, medical facility right
up the street. So I think they have, you know,
practice at PTSD treatment. So, yeah, after
hearing Justin's story, I'm. I'm gonna need a really
good psychiatrist.
>> Harm (02:44):
But you know, that. That I guess, does not count as one of the good things in life.
I guess if we have need treatment after that.
Well, he.
>> Bob (02:51):
He thought it was a good thing.
>> Brent (02:53):
It was the rest of us that were just shocked and
appalled.
>> Harm (02:57):
All right, M. Well, let's move on. But what's going on?
Let's not talk about that.
>> Brent (03:01):
We were the best thing on at 2am until that. So
sorry. Well, this is Made man Bob. And joining me
today for this episode is
good old boy Justin.
>> Bob (03:11):
Pleasure to be here, Bob, in the basement, drinking wine
and good old boy Harm.
>> Harm (03:15):
Today I'M the one not wearing pants.
>> Brent (03:18):
Okay, now I really need treatment. Yeah, you do.
Well, our sip segments are about wine. Distilled, uh,
spirits, tea, coffee, anything else you can s. And this
is a wine episode. So here are the wines we're going to be
discussing today. We have the
Chandon Brut California. We have the
Chandon Brut Rose California. From
(03:39):
Post and Beam, we have the Post and beam Carnero
Chardonnay 2023. The post
and beam Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2022.
We have the Maris Napa Valley Cabernet
SauVignon 2019.
And we have the Chapel, a Pritchard
hill Cabernet Sauvignon
(03:59):
2021.
>> Harm (04:01):
Oh, my God.
>> Brent (04:02):
So.
>> Harm (04:02):
Yeah.
>> Brent (04:03):
Yeah,
exactly. Yeah, it's. It's a pretty good day in
the basement, so.
>> Harm (04:11):
Well, uh, that's not why I'm not wearing pants, though. I. I
arrived not wearing pants.
>> Brent (04:15):
Well, you just. You don't normally.
>> Harm (04:18):
We live in South Florida. I don't have pants all the time.
>> Brent (04:20):
Yeah, and you live in that nudist colony, so. Yeah.
So let's have Justin tell us about our
SIPs ratings for, uh, these wines and
our signature sounds.
>> Bob (04:34):
One sip. Give me a
glass of water to wash out my mouth.
>> Harm (04:41):
For our listeners who were wondering what voice that was. He was
trying to do Paul Giamatti. He is failing, but he's
trying miserably.
>> Brent (04:48):
Yeah.
>> Bob (04:49):
Two sips. Nice.
But what else do you have?
>> Harm (04:55):
Oh, closer. I like that. Uh, isn't that nice?
No.
>> Bob (04:59):
Three sips. H.
It's interesting, but
what was this again?
>> Harm (05:07):
Interesting? You went away from it again. Yeah.
>> Brent (05:10):
Yeah. You're losing it.
>> Bob (05:12):
Four sips.
Let's keep this secret to ourselves.
Pour me another.
>> Harm (05:21):
That's classified. He's. He's
hovering around it.
>> Brent (05:25):
He's near it, but he's not there.
>> Bob (05:27):
Five sips.
>> Harm (05:29):
Oh, my.
>> Bob (05:31):
I was unaware anything could be this
good.
>> Brent (05:36):
Honestly, uh, that sounded like Dick Van Dyke. I mean, uh, I don't
know where I failed. I failed.
>> Harm (05:44):
Yeah. I apologize.
>> Brent (05:45):
Yeah, that was that. Yeah. Yeah.
>> Bob (05:48):
Back to the drawing board.
>> Harm (05:50):
Yeah.
>> Brent (05:50):
Yeah.
Dear God help us all.
>> Harm (05:55):
Bob, you want to start us out today? All right.
>> Brent (05:57):
Yeah. Let's drink some wine and try and make that horror go.
Remember Brando and Apocalypse? The horror.
>> Harm (06:06):
The horror. Yeah. Okay.
>> Brent (06:10):
So we're going to start out with, uh, Chandon. So
Chandon is Louis vuitton, moet hennessy.
Lvmh is sparkling, uh, wine
house founded in 1959 by
Robert Jean De Vogue, a pioneer with the
vision to look beyond the vineyards of France. This
vision led Chandon eventually spanning four
continents with wineries in Argentina, California,
(06:31):
Brazil, Australia, China and India.
A chance, uh, meeting between Ravijan and
um, John Wright was the start of a journey that became
Chandon, California. Tasked with creating
a world class sparkling Rhine, uh, John Wright
established domain Chandon, which was,
is now known as Shandon California
(06:53):
in Yountville. Literally right across the street from
Yonville. Just go under the bridge and it's right there so you can walk to
it. So when we're there, um,
we sort of stagger to sideways
crab walk. Yeah, it's right next to
the VA hospital too.
>> Bob (07:09):
Yes, perfect.
>> Brent (07:11):
You know, let the old guys go drink.
Um, establishing Yardville and Napa Valley
1973. And they've been creating sparkling
wine ever since. So our first wine is The
Chandon Brute California is 12% ABV,
non vintage, 73%
Chardonnay, 26% Pinot Noir,
1% Meunier with um,
(07:32):
traditional champagne method.
And the grapes are sourced from multiple cool climate
appellations with a minimum of 12 months
of aging. So the color on this
is sort of
a bright light straw. It's got a little bit of a glow around the
edge to it.
>> Harm (07:51):
Greenish glint. Mm. Mhm.
>> Brent (07:55):
It's got a really pretty nose. I get
green apples, a little brioche.
There's a sort of
saline sort of minerality note to it.
>> Harm (08:10):
I don't know about that.
>> Brent (08:11):
Yeah, I think you're off a little today.
>> Harm (08:13):
I'm, I'm definitely off today, but still.
>> Brent (08:17):
But on the palette, boom. Green apples,
um, their tasting notes say citrus. My
tasting notes say lime, lime, lime and lime.
Um, a little bit of pear,
a little bit of, uh, a little bit of brioche, a little bit
of biscuity, yeasty on it. But
bright, Very, very bright. Very refreshing.
(08:39):
Well done, well done. What'd you think, Justin?
>> Bob (08:41):
I really like this one on the nose
had like a classic champagne
smell. Green apples, little
touch of fourth grade Elmer's glue,
tangerines and nutmeg.
>> Harm (08:55):
That's just messed up, dude. I, uh, got, I got white
flesh, stone fruit is okay.
>> Brent (09:00):
And the green, unlike you, I don't see color, sir.
Racist bastard.
>> Harm (09:04):
Well, I mean, I've married two white girls. Apparently I
don't see color at all either.
>> Bob (09:09):
On the palette I got, you know.
>> Brent (09:11):
You'Re colorblind and you put them glasses on.
>> Harm (09:14):
I m do like the blondies.
>> Bob (09:17):
On the palette I got like green apple, pear,
almond croissant.
>> Harm (09:22):
That's a good call. Almond croissant's.
>> Brent (09:24):
Good. M. Yeah.
>> Bob (09:25):
And the finish was really pleasant,
little vibrating and then faded off.
>> Brent (09:30):
And yeah, there's definitely. There's. It's not a marzipan. There's definitely
an almond note. It's not a sweet almond note. It's more of a,
like you said, like a, like an almond pastry kind of thing.
>> Harm (09:38):
Yeah, that, to me, that's sweet. Almonds.
>> Bob (09:42):
Depends on who's making it.
>> Brent (09:43):
Not well, like marzipan.
>> Harm (09:44):
Marzipan is very sugary.
>> Brent (09:46):
Sticky almonds. This is more baked
goods with almonds. Yeah.
>> Harm (09:50):
I mean, so the almond notes definitely there. The
white flowers are there. I got, like I said, white flesh, stone fruit.
The apple is definitely there. And I got a wisp
of toast. You were calling it brioche. It's not quite there for
me. Just a wisp of toast.
And, uh, I liked everything you guys said. It's got
great acidity, but I thought the finish was short.
>> Brent (10:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's. It's not.
It's not a long finish. It's definitely a little bit on the shorter
end, but it's a nice. The nice thing about it is it's very
clean, very crisp finish. It doesn't go on as
long as I'd like, but that's why we have a whole
bottle here.
>> Harm (10:26):
So.
>> Brent (10:26):
Hold on, let me.
>> Harm (10:27):
Yeah, you can always refresh that glass.
>> Bob (10:29):
Ah, it won't compete with your caviar if you pair with
that well.
>> Harm (10:33):
You want. I want to have a longer lingering finish. I want, I
want, I want the real stuff from champagne. But this is good.
>> Brent (10:38):
This is.
>> Harm (10:39):
This has gotten so much better over the years. And
I've been. I'm impressed.
>> Brent (10:43):
Well, you know, honestly, champagne, champagne,
sparkling wine in California overall has gotten
better over the last 15 or 20 years.
>> Harm (10:51):
Oh, exactly. Yeah.
>> Brent (10:52):
I mean, it can compete with damn near anywhere now,
so. But we'll be back.
Hey. And we're back. And we were just talking about the
Shandon Brute California. And we were just talking about
how sparkling wine in California overall is
just really, really coming to its own in the last
(11:13):
10 or 20 years. Definitely
10 or 15, I'd say. Yeah,
there's. There's some great stuff. And Shandon
is absolutely one of them. I mean, over the
last, I'd say probably 10, 15 years with them. There's.
Theirs has really gotten. Gotten really
tasty. So we're going to give the
Chandon Brute California a well deserved
(11:35):
three sips.
>> Harm (11:36):
Interesting.
>> Brent (11:39):
So that's going to bring us to our next wine. We're going to have Harm Tell
us about that one.
>> Harm (11:42):
Thanks, Bob. Our next wine is the Chandon brute
rose California, 12% ABV, non
vintage. It's 50, 57%
Chardonnay, 40% Pinot Noir,
3% Pinot Meunier without, uh,
traditional. Whatever. Traditional method. I can't do the French.
The grapes are sourced from multiple
(12:03):
cool climate appellations with a minimum of 12
months aging. It's got a
beautiful pink. It's. I wouldn't call this salmon. It's. It's just
more. More berry pink.
>> Brent (12:13):
Yeah.
>> Bob (12:14):
Fancy, um, pink.
>> Harm (12:15):
Fancy pink. It's not Barbie pink now.
>> Brent (12:18):
No.
>> Harm (12:19):
On the nose, this was super muted. When it's cold,
especially. I'm a little bit off today. I think my sinuses are dry.
Um, strawberries. Strawberry,
Strawberry, strawberry. And the strawberry.
>> Brent (12:30):
It was. It was the strawberry. Say, see, I did that. I taught
you, but yeah, okay. Nobody else is going to get
that. It's under our age. Yeah. Bogart. Come on. It
was a great movie.
>> Harm (12:40):
I know, but still, you can't Mutiny. Come on,
Dirty rat, you. Different.
Different movie.
>> Brent (12:46):
Different movie, different guy.
>> Harm (12:47):
Yeah.
>> Brent (12:49):
Um, that's James Cagney, and that was Wade. Never mind.
Moving on.
>> Harm (12:54):
Uh, I'm getting, like, a little bit of watermelon, but not like the
flesh, but like the rind. The rind of the
watermelon.
>> Brent (13:01):
Yeah, the watermelon is definitely there.
>> Harm (13:02):
And then on the palate,
there's. The watermelon is coming out there.
A little bit of raspberry. Um,
and I would say there's pomegranate, but it's.
It's a little bit not. You know, actually, I want to say it's closer
to pomegranate than anything else. The strawberry, raspberry,
(13:23):
pomegranate thing, um,
I really enjoyed this. It's. It's got a longer
finish than the regular one, and, um,
the flavors keep evolving. This is very nice. What
do you think, Justin?
>> Bob (13:37):
I thought that the color was really
cool. They got, like, peaches and cream on the
nose. It was a little
soapy, and that faded off. And
then after it faded off, it got, like, more
floral.
>> Harm (13:51):
I think you tasted too. Too cold. That soap, you know, it
was. That was way too cold. Yeah.
>> Bob (13:56):
On the palette, I got watermelon, uh,
cantaloupe, the finish
green, uh, raisins and, uh, pears.
And I thought it was pleasant, refreshing.
>> Harm (14:09):
I'm not getting raisin. It's close. I see what you're saying with the sweetness.
M. But it's not raisin.
It's something else. Uh, what if she said
Pear. Right. I think pear might be a good one, Bob.
>> Brent (14:21):
Uh, well, just, you know, so the listeners are
aware, whenever we do sparkling wines
or white wines, we tend to basically
chill the hell out of them.
>> Harm (14:31):
Yeah.
>> Brent (14:32):
Beyond what, you know, wine
geeks would normally chill because
the vast majority of consumers
will drink it too damn cold. Too damn cold.
So we kind of do that on purpose so we can get some
notes. And we will take notes, and as we're preparing
for each episode, we'll spend an hour, plus
(14:52):
preparing for the episode and taking tasty notes as it
slowly warms up and slowly warms up to a more
acceptable wine geek kind of temperature. Um,
so, yeah, I. I definitely picked up some of the notes. Justin
was saying, we opened it. You. You didn't even get. You got no
nose off of it all.
>> Harm (15:08):
Smell it when it's absolutely cold.
>> Brent (15:09):
And I kept telling you, let it warm, let it warm, let it warm. Now that
it's warmed up, the nose is popping. I mean, it's. This is
delicious. It's. There's.
This. The strawberries just
absolutely leap out of the glass. To me, it's.
It's more wild strawberries
picking on the side of the road. Up in the mountains where my
(15:31):
family's from, up North Carolina, the little wild strawberries,
they're much more intense. I'm getting that.
I definitely get the watermelon on it.
I think you're right. I think on the nose, it's more rind than it
is watermelon. Uh, the flesh of it. But
on the palate. Hold on.
(15:53):
On the palate. Boom. Strawberries.
I still. I do get a little bit of the watermelon on the back
palate. Um, I
got the raspberries.
I get a little bit of a sweet pastry on the back.
Just a slight little bit of the easiness. But it's. This is a.
This is delicious. It's a nice.
>> Harm (16:12):
I didn't mention the pastry in it, but you're right, it was there.
>> Brent (16:14):
Yeah, there's. There's just that slight bit of, like.
Was like a buttered croissant, maybe.
>> Harm (16:20):
No, it's not a croissant. It's something else.
>> Brent (16:22):
It's something. I can't put my finger on it, but there is a
pastry back there. Um, but
absolutely delicious. I mean, the front palate is a fruit bomb. But
this is well done. And the. The finish goes well.
>> Harm (16:33):
We call it a fruit bomb. But it's not sweet. It's
dry. Rose.
>> Brent (16:36):
No, not sweet at all.
>> Harm (16:38):
Uh, I mean, because I have. I have to Deal with the public,
general public all the time, and they always want sweet.
>> Brent (16:44):
Sorry.
>> Harm (16:44):
Yeah, I know.
>> Bob (16:45):
I am getting, like, a Cuban bread note on it.
>> Brent (16:48):
That could be it. Pan Cubano.
>> Harm (16:51):
Yeah. But it's. It's, um. It's still
dry, but you get those beautiful floral and
fruit flavors that come out and it. This
is perfectly serviceable. Food warming. I mean, I would have
this by itself, too. It's great.
>> Brent (17:04):
And again, the finish on this one is. Is
vastly better than. Than the first one.
And the first one was fine, but this one
stays with you.
>> Harm (17:13):
Uh, the thing is, you'll find that the mousse does not last. There's
not enough bubble compared to, like, real champagne from France.
But they still do a good job as you drink it
earlier. We've had this in the glass for an hour.
>> Brent (17:25):
Yeah. And. Well. And it's been open for an hour, so to be fair,
the moose is blown off a good bit off of this one.
>> Bob (17:31):
But, uh, the mousse is loose.
>> Brent (17:33):
Yeah.
>> Harm (17:33):
But it's, um. It's still got a fine.
Like those really fine bubbles, like real stuff from champagne, which is actually
great.
>> Brent (17:39):
Oh, no, that's. The mousse in there is.
>> Harm (17:42):
Is used to be very hard for them to do in California. It
was always very coarse.
>> Brent (17:46):
Yeah. See, you just poured it. Look at the mousse on
that. It's really nice.
>> Harm (17:50):
Yeah.
>> Brent (17:51):
Yeah, they do. I'm telling you, Shandon's doing some great stuff.
They have one that's only available at the winery and it's
infused with Earl Grey tea. And it sounds really weird
and messed up, and let me tell you, it's one of the most delicious things you'll
ever have.
>> Harm (18:04):
I would love to try that.
>> Brent (18:05):
I wish they sold it regularly. Every time we go, I go,
you know, I'm going to run by the gift shop and grab one and then we get busy and
I don't. It sounds odd, but they
play so well together.
>> Harm (18:16):
Are they infusing with bergamot?
That's the citrus they use.
>> Brent (18:20):
I don't think they're just using bergamot. I think they're actually using
Earl Grey tea. Yeah.
>> Harm (18:24):
That's crazy.
>> Brent (18:25):
Yeah, it is. It's weird, but it works.
>> Harm (18:27):
I love that. I love that kind of thing. I would love to try that.
>> Brent (18:29):
Why? Love Earthway? I mean, I. I have a glass
of Earl Grey every morning at work, so it's sort of
my thing. But, um. Yeah.
>> Harm (18:37):
That does not make you Picard. Stop. You are
not Captain Picard.
>> Brent (18:41):
I am not Picard. I never would Be Picard. I am
Kirk, baby.
>> Harm (18:45):
Oh, you're no Kirk.
>> Brent (18:45):
100% Kirk. All the. All the
green chicks love me. So. So we're going
to give the.
>> Harm (18:52):
That's only because they turn green after they're with you.
>> Brent (18:54):
Yes, exactly. There's a shot
for that. So we're. We're going to give the Shandon, uh,
Brute Rose, California, well deserved. Four sips.
>> Harm (19:03):
That's classified.
>> Brent (19:06):
So, Justin, tell us about the Post and Beam Chardonnay.
>> Bob (19:09):
Post and Beam is based in Napa Valley.
It's named for simple yet elegant
barns that dot the American
landscape. Established in 2020,
the winery is part of the Far Niente family of
wineries and vineyards, joining Far
Niente, Dolce Nicola
Nickel en route and Bella Union en
(19:31):
route when?
>> Brent (19:33):
Okay. And on.
>> Harm (19:34):
Um.
>> Brent (19:35):
Whatever.
>> Bob (19:36):
So it's a Carneros. The
first Post and beam Carnero Chardonnay
2023. It's, uh,
from Carneros, an Appalachian in
Napa. It's 100 Chardonnay.
It was harvested between, uh, October 11th through the
27th. And we'll be back.
(20:02):
So the Post and beam Cornero Chardonnay 2023 was
harvested October 11th through the 27th.
It was 30% aged in New French Oak
seven months. Surly. The color
was like a light gold, vibrant yellow.
On the nose. I got, like, creamy croissant, lemon
curd, and pears on the palate,
(20:23):
Melon and a prominent French oak note.
The finish was, like, soapy pears
and green raisins.
And what did you think, Harm?
>> Brent (20:33):
I think he had some green raisins for lunch. He seems to like those.
Yeah.
>> Harm (20:37):
Lemon. You said lemon curd.
>> Brent (20:39):
Yeah.
>> Harm (20:40):
Yeah, I think that's good. Lemon curd, honeysuckle.
Uh, definitely a little bit of, uh, like,
orange note. Orange blossom. Um,
there's something else there that's. It's like, the rind. It's like
orange rind. It's really great. I
love the nose on this wine. Uh, you know, these guys
make Far Niente Chardonnay, which is freaking fantastic. They
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know what they're doing. Even though this is a different winery, the, uh, grapes are
sourced a little bit differently. Um, this
is gorgeous. The
palate.
Excuse me.
Rookie mistake. Try m and talk with the still wine in your mouth.
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Yep. Um, it
has a beautiful silky entry. I love the way
this feels on the palate. It's. It's round, it's
soft. There's melon, there's pears on, um,
definitely like, Anjou pear. Like that buttery, creamy
pear. Um,
it's Just, it's a hint of oak. Do you say oak on that too? Do you get
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the oak? French? Oak French. Yeah. Yeah. I hint with it.
It's not like toasty though. It's like more spicy.
Uh, the finish has got. Doesn't have enough acid for me. A little bit
soft on the acid and a little
bit sweet, but it's very good. It's got a medium to long finish.
Bob, what do you think?
>> Brent (21:59):
I don't mind the acid. I think it's. For me, it's
fine.
>> Harm (22:02):
I like a little bit higher acidity.
>> Brent (22:04):
Yeah. And I get that some people like a little bit
more. I'm totally fine where it's at, but.
>> Harm (22:09):
Um, this would go great with Chilean sea bass. Buttery style
fish.
>> Brent (22:13):
There's lemon curd. There's, uh, orange
rind. There's a little bit of a,
like a orange blossom honey
note on the nose on the palate.
>> Harm (22:27):
M. It's not strongly honey for me, but I see what you're
saying.
>> Brent (22:31):
That's sticky. Just there's that, that, just that
hint on the palate. I'm getting melon.
I'm getting pears.
It's got a great, like you said, silky
mouthfeel. Really gorgeous. Well
made. The viscosity on this is really, really
nice. Um, it's got
a pretty good finish on it. Nice, fresh,
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clean oak, but not, you know,
California Chardonnay. Cougar juice oak.
Just, just a wisp the way it's supposed to be.
>> Harm (23:02):
Right.
>> Brent (23:02):
It's supposed to be a flavor component. It's supposed to elevate the
wine.
>> Harm (23:06):
That whole 90s cougar juice, early 2000s.
>> Brent (23:09):
California wine is finally, I think it's finally died.
>> Harm (23:12):
Yeah.
>> Brent (23:12):
Um, I mean, there's still some out there, but
the vast majority of people have gotten away from it.
>> Harm (23:17):
They're going more balanced.
>> Brent (23:19):
Yeah, I think. Yeah, it's just, it's nice fresh
sawn oak. Um, just that slight little bit of hint
to elevate it and give it that backbone. I think this
is extremely well done. I really like. I really like
this one. So. So we're going to give the Post and
beam Carnera Chardonnay 2023 a
well deserved four sips.
>> Harm (23:38):
That's classified.
>> Brent (23:42):
So that's going to bring us to our next wine from the
same folks at Post and Beam.
So this is the Post and Beam Napa Valley Cabernet
Sauvignon 2022. It
is 14.5,
14.5% ABV.
Um, Appalachian is Napa Valley. It's 91%
Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Merlot 2,
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2% Petite Verdot, 1% Cabernet Francis.
Um, harvested September 9th to October
20th in 2022 and age 10 months in
French oak. Again, 30% new. So
the color,
nice dark garnet to it.
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It's got a nice clear rim to
it
on the nose.
When we first opened it, it had a little bit of a vegetal note
that blew off almost immediately for me,
I'm getting blackberries,
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getting blueberries on the nose, on the palate.
>> Harm (24:50):
Mhm.
>> Brent (24:54):
It's got a great mouthfeel. Really
well rounded, this one. The acidity for me is a little bit
higher than it was on the shard. Definitely
getting a little bit of that mouth water to it.
Cassis, blackberries, blueberries,
dark fruit.
Um,
got a nice finish on it.
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A little bit of a cocoa note on the back palette.
>> Harm (25:19):
For me, I'm not sure your blueberry note at all. I'm gonna keep coming back to
it. I'm not coming.
>> Brent (25:23):
I'm getting very front of the tongue. I get the blueberry,
but it's more for me, it's more. There's that
hint of blueberry, but it's more BlackBerry, more dark
stewed fruit. Very pretty wine.
Very pretty wine. What do you think?
>> Harm (25:36):
Um, I don't disagree with anything you said. Um,
I got a more minerality thing going on with it.
>> Brent (25:42):
Yeah, there's definitely a mineral note to.
>> Harm (25:43):
It, almost a licorice note. I got hoisin, like that plum
sauce, A, uh, little bit of cassis,
and a hint of menthol is still there for me at that point.
That green note, it's.
>> Brent (25:54):
And it's menthol on the nose or the
palate?
>> Harm (25:57):
On the nose. Still on the nose.
>> Brent (25:59):
Yeah, I can see.
>> Harm (26:00):
And a, uh, toast, like, ah, like
toast, not like, um, like
slightly toasted bread.
>> Bob (26:07):
Does anybody in your family smoke cools?
>> Harm (26:10):
No.
>> Brent (26:11):
Okay, Just checking.
>> Harm (26:12):
I do sell them at the ghetto store. Thank you.
>> Brent (26:14):
All right, sure.
>> Bob (26:17):
Because they'll stay on your fingers for a while.
>> Harm (26:19):
Yeah.
>> Brent (26:19):
Yeah.
>> Harm (26:22):
Um, beautiful texture on the palette. Starts out
round a little bit earlier on, I thought it was. I thought
it was too light. I thought the palate was very light bodied.
But giving this time to get some air. The tannins are starting to
polymerize a little bit. I'm getting a better grip on it. I'm
getting more round palette. Um, layers of
flavor. It's. It's. The grip came
late, but it came in and it's good. And the.
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The flavors are What Bob said, but I'm not getting quite the blueberry. But
maybe like the. Yeah, it's,
it's, it's really nice and um, it
finishes pretty long. I'm enjoying this, Justin. What'd you
think?
>> Bob (26:57):
So not much to add other than you
gotta let this one open up. Yeah, there was some pretty
unpleasant things going on in the beginning which completely
disappeared an hour in.
>> Brent (27:09):
It was. There was a vegetable note on the nose. 100%.
But after about 10 minutes, gone, completely
gone.
>> Bob (27:15):
You know, I'm a steak and potato.
>> Brent (27:16):
Guys, and real pretty.
>> Bob (27:17):
Yeah, vegetals. Not um, my thing.
>> Harm (27:20):
Yeah, no, no vegetables. I've never.
>> Brent (27:22):
Yeah, I've never seen him eat a vegetable before, so. Uh. Yeah.
>> Bob (27:25):
Explains a lot.
>> Brent (27:26):
But.
>> Harm (27:26):
Yeah, I'm not going to make the joke.
>> Brent (27:29):
Yeah, don't go there. We're
on radio, remember? Yeah, you
gotta kind of try.
>> Harm (27:36):
You got, you gotta hear some of Justin stories.
>> Bob (27:41):
I do eat pie.
>> Brent (27:42):
Yeah.
>> Harm (27:42):
All right.
>> Brent (27:42):
If you.
>> Harm (27:43):
Yeah.
>> Brent (27:43):
Just. Just not vegetables. Yeah, right.
>> Harm (27:46):
Correct. That vegetable note. That or the vegetable
note I'm getting right now. For me, it's like. It's not. You said
blueberry. I'm getting like that. That, uh, the stem
part.
>> Brent (27:54):
Yeah.
>> Harm (27:55):
You know, it's, it's that woody note for the blueberry. When you eat
fresh blueberries, that's um, that's
what that is. Yeah. Yeah.
>> Brent (28:03):
Well, we're going to be giving the post and Beam Napa Valley Cabernet
Sauvignon 2022 a well deserved four sips.
>> Harm (28:10):
That's classified. Yep.
>> Brent (28:12):
So let's have Harm tell us about our next one.
>> Harm (28:15):
All right, let's. Let's get started before the next commercial here.
Okay. This, uh, is, uh, Maris.
Maris began as the quintessential garage wine. Made by
Maris founders Erica J. Goth and Mark
Harold in the two car garage behind their home
in the town of Napa. The wine won international
renown starting with their first vintage in
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1998. But the garage imposed serious
limitations. Purchased by the William Foley of Foley
Family, the wine group, uh, in
2007, one of his first goals was to find a
Napa Valley winery
site worthy of the brand. A few months later, he
acquired a historic ranch tucked into a canyon on the east side of the
valley. One of Napa's fabled ghost
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wineries, it had been abandoned in the wake of, uh,
Prohibition and only recently brought back to life.
Now fully updated, the winery includes custom made
winemaking equipment, 7,000 square feet of caves, which
is kind of small for the barrel storage along with
tasting salon and A second tasting area in
the caves. The Maris Napavelli Cabernet
Sauvignon 2019 is 15.8% ABV.
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It's from Napa Valley. 97% Cabernet Sauvignon from
Coombesville, 3% Petit Verdot from Yountville.
The grapes were cold soaked for five days prior to
inoculation and a warm fermentation
to dryness. During the fermentation, the juice
was pumped over twice daily in small capacity tanks for
nine days. The wine was pressed off of the skins
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and moved back to tank for a full malolactic
fermentation and then barreled in
100% new French oak for 24 months.
I'm kind of rushing through this because we're coming to a commercial which is starting in
three seconds. Two, one.
And we're back. So the color of this is,
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uh, gorgeous. Um, hold on, there's the. Right, there it
is. This is a gorgeous deep garnet
with violet edges. And on the nose,
earlier on I was getting a lot of cassis and BlackBerry.
Uh, right now it's going to a
subtle, um, spicy, um, hint.
A little bit of clove. I'm getting vanilla bean and
(30:24):
cedar, lots of cedar. Maybe a hint of
graphite. I'm not sure about that. And still
got that. A good mineral note to it. This one is
different from that post and beam. This is kind of a more full bodied
wine
when I first had it. And now this is big on the
palate. Very plush. The tannins are
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velvety. Those, uh, cassis
and cedar notes are coming out of the palette. Uh,
it's really got great grip. This is a definitely a steak
wine. It's, you can get the American
oak. I'm sorry, this French oak, right. You get that,
you get that oak on there and that's, I guess that's where, I guess where that,
that clove note was coming. And
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it's got a long, long finish. It's
structured, powerful.
Um, there's nothing wrong with this wine. I'm,
I'm really enjoying it, Bob.
>> Brent (31:16):
Absolutely delicious. Yeah. The cassis and the
BlackBerry on the nose are there. The cedar is 100% there.
It's like your grandmother's cedar chest. I get a
graphite mineral, mineral note on the
nose. On the palate, it's just dark
fruits, dark fruits, dark fruits.
Beautiful silky tannins. A really great
mouthfeel.
>> Harm (31:37):
Um, I don't think the tannins are silky. It's more
velvety. We tried, got rougher texture.
>> Brent (31:43):
But is this velvet? This Is beautiful. Yeah,
we tried this, uh, a while back and met.
Met some folks at a big wine event we were at. And
I said, I have to have this for the show. I reached out to them and they were
kind enough to send us a bottle. Um, and it's also a
2019, so it's got a little bit more time on it. I
knew this wine. I knew it wouldn't disappoint. It's fantastic. What do you think,
(32:03):
Justin?
>> Bob (32:04):
I'm very excited to be drinking this. This morning
I definitely got the fruit and then
half bakery, half machine shop on the nose.
And those are positive.
>> Harm (32:15):
Oh, I know you're talking about that. Minarelli is a machine shop.
>> Bob (32:18):
Yeah, it's like, oh, I'm gonna go somewhere and do a thing.
And it was plush, like it, you know, came from a
couch from the 70s, you know, on the palate.
Lots of soft fruit, uh,
berries, blackberries. The
finish was like, this is like a classy wine.
If you were hanging out in this guy's garage, he whips us out and drinks.
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You're like, oh, I must be in Napa, because this is serious wine.
>> Brent (32:41):
Yeah, I don't think I'd leave the garage if this was there. Nah.
Well, we're going to be giving the Maris Napa Valley Cabernet
Sauvignon 2019. A well deserved four
sibs.
>> Harm (32:51):
That's classified easy. It came close to a five for me.
Yeah, almost. Not almost, but not quite there.
>> Brent (32:56):
All right, Justin, tell us about, uh, Chappelle.
>> Bob (32:58):
I'm excited about this. So Chappellee,
Pritchard Hill Cabernet Sauvignon 2021.
It's 14.8% alcohol by volume, of course, from
Pritchard Hill in Napa Valley. It's
95 cabernet sauvignon, 5%
petite verdot. The color is
dark. It smells like a cigar shop
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with beautiful flowers out front. The
palette is concentrated fruit,
potpourri and dark chocolate. And the
finish is heaven in a glass. What did you think,
Bob?
>> Brent (33:32):
Well, I've got a particular affiliation with this on one. We've done
quite a bit of chapel on the show. But,
um, I was out in Napa with our
executive producer and they were very kind to have us
out and they pulled a barrel sample of the upcoming
Pritchard Hill for us, which is this very wine. So
I was adamant, I wanted to get it. Um, and
fortunately we were back again recently.
(33:55):
Um, in. Was it January?
>> Harm (33:57):
March.
>> Brent (33:57):
March. We were there in March. And,
uh, the girls actually were talking to a gentleman in the
parking lot turned out to be Cyril Chappelle. And he said, oh yeah, we'll
send you one, no problem. So thank you, Cyril.
>> Bob (34:08):
Thank you, uh, amazing wine.
>> Harm (34:10):
Thank your wives.
>> Brent (34:11):
We already knew that it was a great wine, but thank you especially
for sending this one because I got to try it from the barrel and I've got
tribe from the bottle and it is
absolutely fantastic.
Black currants, black raspberries, tobacco
notes, some graphite,
a little bit of herbal note to it, and some dark
(34:31):
chocolate. This is, this is everything you want
from, from a Pritchard Hill. I mean, this is,
it's classic amazing wine. What'd you think, Harm?
>> Harm (34:40):
I. I've been selling Pritchard Hill from
Chappellet for years and this vintage is no
different. It is freaking amazing.
Gorgeous, rich, lush wine. You're gonna
have to open up your wallet and dig in deep. Or just
use the plastic. Just use the plastic. Um, it's fine.
It. You. It's worth the every penny.
>> Brent (35:00):
Yeah, you can always file bankruptcy and wipe it.
>> Bob (35:04):
The small monthly payments for 48 months would be
nominal.
>> Harm (35:08):
Depends on your budget. But look, I've sell much more expensive.
>> Brent (35:10):
Get your priorities in order, friend. You know, spend the money on
the good wine.
>> Bob (35:13):
Yeah, it'll make that steak taste even better
than.
>> Harm (35:17):
Oh, it definitely does, but super
concentrated. Oh, so, so
ripe fruit. And, and there's that oak,
the, the.
>> Brent (35:26):
Um, that underlayment that.
>> Harm (35:28):
Yeah.
>> Brent (35:29):
Base of the oak.
>> Harm (35:31):
They say what kind of oak they use? They don't say, but I think
it's got to be a. Mostly French and American. Or mostly
French maybe, if there's any, if there's any Americans really toasted.
It's got that great nose. I love this.
And it's so rich on the palate.
Um, it's got that herbal note, it's got plenty
of spice, like anise coming out,
(35:52):
some nutmeg. Wow,
it's you. You said the chocolate notes. That's what
predominates for me.
>> Brent (36:00):
Yeah.
>> Bob (36:01):
Pretty dark chocolate.
>> Harm (36:03):
Yeah.
>> Brent (36:03):
Ah, yeah, I get the chocolate on the finish. More than
just on the initial sip.
>> Harm (36:08):
No, it smells in the back. Not even the finish. I'm talking. I
smell that dark chocol.
>> Brent (36:13):
Hold on.
>> Bob (36:15):
Yeah, Steve.
>> Harm (36:17):
On the palate. Such great grip. This,
this will, uh, cut any fat from
any great steak you're eating. Yeah. And it will just
make the next bite taste better. That's why you need these tannic
heavy wines.
>> Brent (36:30):
The, the problem is, is this isn't only an hour long show and I
could spend two hours just talking about this Particular.
>> Harm (36:36):
Oh yeah, of course.
>> Brent (36:37):
I mean because it just continues to evolve in the glass.
>> Harm (36:40):
You. So when we drink wines with heavy tannins like this
and we pair them with meats because the tannins
cut that fat. It pulls it right off your tongue.
So the next bite you taste more.
The fat's not covering your tongue
like.
>> Bob (36:55):
The first bite every time.
>> Harm (36:57):
Yeah.
>> Brent (36:57):
It awakens your palate. It allows you to taste the
meat. It allows you to also taste the wine at the same time.
>> Harm (37:03):
So such great grip on m this.
>> Brent (37:05):
Well, I mean Chaplet makes great wine. It's a
beautiful, beautiful winery. Stunning
up on top of the mountain.
>> Harm (37:12):
I don't care about the winery. I'm talking about the wine. Bob.
>> Brent (37:14):
One of the earliest wineries there. I mean it was Bob
Mondavi built his and then the Chaplet family built theirs
literally like months later. It's a pyramid on top
of the mountain. And it is like its own ecosystem up there. So
cool. Absolutely gorgeous. But the wine. I've never
had a wine from them that I didn't go. Damn.
>> Bob (37:31):
Great views from Napa. If you go to visit.
>> Brent (37:33):
Yeah, yeah.
>> Bob (37:34):
And do visit.
>> Brent (37:35):
If you are in Napa 100% you
need to put these folks on. I mean all of these
you need to visit. But yeah. Chapel a
chapel. Ah. A's other. Another order.
>> Harm (37:46):
So they're Pritchard. They're Pritchard Hill Cab. They who's uh,
Jefferson's use this to age their uh, their bourbon
in one of the. One of the
few wine finished bourbons. I love Pritchard Hill make
good stuff, man. Yeah, anything for Hill.
>> Brent (38:00):
But well, we were there, we had a great time. We saw
some turkeys wandering around. It was just cool.
And we got to meet Cyril. So
we're going to give the chapel a Pritchard Hill Cabernet
7 2021. We're
giving it five because we don't have six.
>> Harm (38:17):
Oh my goodness. There's no six.
>> Brent (38:20):
Yeah, there should be an 11, but these go to
11. So fantastic wine.
Absolutely fantastic wine. So this was. This was
a good flight guys. Really good flight. So
want to thank my co host for joining me today.
Thank you, Justin.
>> Bob (38:36):
Thank you, Bob.
>> Brent (38:38):
Don't thank me. I didn't make the wine. I just poured it
and thank you, Harm.
>> Harm (38:43):
You know, I don't often mean it, but I mean it today. Thank you, Bob.
>> Brent (38:46):
No, you never mean it. Come on.
>> Harm (38:48):
Uh, no. Not once.
>> Brent (38:49):
Not once.
>> Harm (38:49):
This. My teeth are purple and I'm m happy.
>> Brent (38:52):
Thank you. If you're not happy after this tasting good, there's
something wrong with you. Well, for Sip, Suds and Smokes, this
is made man. Bob, we thank you for joining us. And remember, life is
too short to drink bad wine. And foil boy,
today we did not drink any bad wine. So
yeah, hand me that. Hand me that.
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>> Brent (00:03):
This is a wine episode. So here are the wines we're going to
be discussing today. We have the
Chandon Brut California. We have the
Chandon Brut Rose California. From
Post and Beam, we have the Post and beam Carnera
Chardonnay 2023. The post
and beam Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2022.
(00:25):
We have the Maris Napa Valley Cabernet
SauVignon 2019.
And we have the Chappellet Pritchard
Hill Cabernet Sauvignon, um,
2021.
>> Harm (00:37):
Oh, my God.
>> Brent (00:38):
Yeah.
>> Harm (00:41):
Their Pritchard Hill cab. They who's the Jefferson's used
this to age their, uh, bourbon in that.
One of the. One of the few wine finished bourbons
I love. Pritchard Hill makes good stuff, man.
>> Announcer (00:53):
We'll be right back after this break.
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Brought to you almost live from the dude in the
basement studios. Why? Because that's where the
good stuff is. It sips, suds and
smokes with your smoke and host the good old
boys.
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And now it's sipping.
>> Harm (01:59):
Hey.
>> Brent (01:59):
Yes. It's seven time again. Welcome to this sips episode
where everything good in life is worth discussing.
Or not really. Or maybe.
>> Harm (02:07):
You know what? I, uh, used to think we did
discuss everything. I know sexy times is off the list
for you.
>> Brent (02:14):
Yeah.
>> Harm (02:16):
But I heard a disturbing story earlier today.
>> Brent (02:19):
Yeah, so did I. From your wife. And it's just gross.
>> Harm (02:21):
It was from Justin. Just as disturbing stories. Oh, no.
>> Brent (02:23):
Justin's. Yeah, that was.
>> Harm (02:24):
Those are the worst.
>> Bob (02:25):
Well, what's wrong with pie?
>> Harm (02:26):
I'm gonna have you think
it would be an American pie situation, but it's not. It's much worse than that.
>> Brent (02:32):
Fortunately, there's a V.A. uh, medical facility right
up the street. So I think they have, you know,
practice at PTSD treatment. So, yeah, after
hearing Justin's story, I'm. I'm gonna need a really
good psychiatrist.
>> Harm (02:44):
But you know, that. That I guess, does not count as one of the good things in life.
I guess if we have need treatment after that.
Well, he.
>> Bob (02:51):
He thought it was a good thing.
>> Brent (02:53):
It was the rest of us that were just shocked and
appalled.
>> Harm (02:57):
All right, M. Well, let's move on. But what's going on?
Let's not talk about that.
>> Brent (03:01):
We were the best thing on at 2am until that. So
sorry. Well, this is Made man Bob. And joining me
today for this episode is
good old boy Justin.
>> Bob (03:11):
Pleasure to be here, Bob, in the basement, drinking wine
and good old boy Harm.
>> Harm (03:15):
Today I'M the one not wearing pants.
>> Brent (03:18):
Okay, now I really need treatment. Yeah, you do.
Well, our sip segments are about wine. Distilled, uh,
spirits, tea, coffee, anything else you can s. And this
is a wine episode. So here are the wines we're going to be
discussing today. We have the
Chandon Brut California. We have the
Chandon Brut Rose California. From
(03:39):
Post and Beam, we have the Post and beam Carnero
Chardonnay 2023. The post
and beam Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2022.
We have the Maris Napa Valley Cabernet
SauVignon 2019.
And we have the Chapel, a Pritchard
hill Cabernet Sauvignon
(03:59):
2021.
>> Harm (04:01):
Oh, my God.
>> Brent (04:02):
So.
>> Harm (04:02):
Yeah.
>> Brent (04:03):
Yeah,
exactly. Yeah, it's. It's a pretty good day in
the basement, so.
>> Harm (04:11):
Well, uh, that's not why I'm not wearing pants, though. I. I
arrived not wearing pants.
>> Brent (04:15):
Well, you just. You don't normally.
>> Harm (04:18):
We live in South Florida. I don't have pants all the time.
>> Brent (04:20):
Yeah, and you live in that nudist colony, so. Yeah.
So let's have Justin tell us about our
SIPs ratings for, uh, these wines and
our signature sounds.
>> Bob (04:34):
One sip. Give me a
glass of water to wash out my mouth.
>> Harm (04:41):
For our listeners who were wondering what voice that was. He was
trying to do Paul Giamatti. He is failing, but he's
trying miserably.
>> Brent (04:48):
Yeah.
>> Bob (04:49):
Two sips. Nice.
But what else do you have?
>> Harm (04:55):
Oh, closer. I like that. Uh, isn't that nice?
No.
>> Bob (04:59):
Three sips. H.
It's interesting, but
what was this again?
>> Harm (05:07):
Interesting? You went away from it again. Yeah.
>> Brent (05:10):
Yeah. You're losing it.
>> Bob (05:12):
Four sips.
Let's keep this secret to ourselves.
Pour me another.
>> Harm (05:21):
That's classified. He's. He's
hovering around it.
>> Brent (05:25):
He's near it, but he's not there.
>> Bob (05:27):
Five sips.
>> Harm (05:29):
Oh, my.
>> Bob (05:31):
I was unaware anything could be this
good.
>> Brent (05:36):
Honestly, uh, that sounded like Dick Van Dyke. I mean, uh, I don't
know where I failed. I failed.
>> Harm (05:44):
Yeah. I apologize.
>> Brent (05:45):
Yeah, that was that. Yeah. Yeah.
>> Bob (05:48):
Back to the drawing board.
>> Harm (05:50):
Yeah.
>> Brent (05:50):
Yeah.
Dear God help us all.
>> Harm (05:55):
Bob, you want to start us out today? All right.
>> Brent (05:57):
Yeah. Let's drink some wine and try and make that horror go.
Remember Brando and Apocalypse? The horror.
>> Harm (06:06):
The horror. Yeah. Okay.
>> Brent (06:10):
So we're going to start out with, uh, Chandon. So
Chandon is Louis vuitton, moet hennessy.
Lvmh is sparkling, uh, wine
house founded in 1959 by
Robert Jean De Vogue, a pioneer with the
vision to look beyond the vineyards of France. This
vision led Chandon eventually spanning four
continents with wineries in Argentina, California,
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Brazil, Australia, China and India.
A chance, uh, meeting between Ravijan and
um, John Wright was the start of a journey that became
Chandon, California. Tasked with creating
a world class sparkling Rhine, uh, John Wright
established domain Chandon, which was,
is now known as Shandon California
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in Yountville. Literally right across the street from
Yonville. Just go under the bridge and it's right there so you can walk to
it. So when we're there, um,
we sort of stagger to sideways
crab walk. Yeah, it's right next to
the VA hospital too.
>> Bob (07:09):
Yes, perfect.
>> Brent (07:11):
You know, let the old guys go drink.
Um, establishing Yardville and Napa Valley
1973. And they've been creating sparkling
wine ever since. So our first wine is The
Chandon Brute California is 12% ABV,
non vintage, 73%
Chardonnay, 26% Pinot Noir,
1% Meunier with um,
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traditional champagne method.
And the grapes are sourced from multiple cool climate
appellations with a minimum of 12 months
of aging. So the color on this
is sort of
a bright light straw. It's got a little bit of a glow around the
edge to it.
>> Harm (07:51):
Greenish glint. Mm. Mhm.
>> Brent (07:55):
It's got a really pretty nose. I get
green apples, a little brioche.
There's a sort of
saline sort of minerality note to it.
>> Harm (08:10):
I don't know about that.
>> Brent (08:11):
Yeah, I think you're off a little today.
>> Harm (08:13):
I'm, I'm definitely off today, but still.
>> Brent (08:17):
But on the palette, boom. Green apples,
um, their tasting notes say citrus. My
tasting notes say lime, lime, lime and lime.
Um, a little bit of pear,
a little bit of, uh, a little bit of brioche, a little bit
of biscuity, yeasty on it. But
bright, Very, very bright. Very refreshing.
(08:39):
Well done, well done. What'd you think, Justin?
>> Bob (08:41):
I really like this one on the nose
had like a classic champagne
smell. Green apples, little
touch of fourth grade Elmer's glue,
tangerines and nutmeg.
>> Harm (08:55):
That's just messed up, dude. I, uh, got, I got white
flesh, stone fruit is okay.
>> Brent (09:00):
And the green, unlike you, I don't see color, sir.
Racist bastard.
>> Harm (09:04):
Well, I mean, I've married two white girls. Apparently I
don't see color at all either.
>> Bob (09:09):
On the palette I got, you know.
>> Brent (09:11):
You'Re colorblind and you put them glasses on.
>> Harm (09:14):
I m do like the blondies.
>> Bob (09:17):
On the palette I got like green apple, pear,
almond croissant.
>> Harm (09:22):
That's a good call. Almond croissant's.
>> Brent (09:24):
Good. M. Yeah.
>> Bob (09:25):
And the finish was really pleasant,
little vibrating and then faded off.
>> Brent (09:30):
And yeah, there's definitely. There's. It's not a marzipan. There's definitely
an almond note. It's not a sweet almond note. It's more of a,
like you said, like a, like an almond pastry kind of thing.
>> Harm (09:38):
Yeah, that, to me, that's sweet. Almonds.
>> Bob (09:42):
Depends on who's making it.
>> Brent (09:43):
Not well, like marzipan.
>> Harm (09:44):
Marzipan is very sugary.
>> Brent (09:46):
Sticky almonds. This is more baked
goods with almonds. Yeah.
>> Harm (09:50):
I mean, so the almond notes definitely there. The
white flowers are there. I got, like I said, white flesh, stone fruit.
The apple is definitely there. And I got a wisp
of toast. You were calling it brioche. It's not quite there for
me. Just a wisp of toast.
And, uh, I liked everything you guys said. It's got
great acidity, but I thought the finish was short.
>> Brent (10:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's. It's not.
It's not a long finish. It's definitely a little bit on the shorter
end, but it's a nice. The nice thing about it is it's very
clean, very crisp finish. It doesn't go on as
long as I'd like, but that's why we have a whole
bottle here.
>> Harm (10:26):
So.
>> Brent (10:26):
Hold on, let me.
>> Harm (10:27):
Yeah, you can always refresh that glass.
>> Bob (10:29):
Ah, it won't compete with your caviar if you pair with
that well.
>> Harm (10:33):
You want. I want to have a longer lingering finish. I want, I
want, I want the real stuff from champagne. But this is good.
>> Brent (10:38):
This is.
>> Harm (10:39):
This has gotten so much better over the years. And
I've been. I'm impressed.
>> Brent (10:43):
Well, you know, honestly, champagne, champagne,
sparkling wine in California overall has gotten
better over the last 15 or 20 years.
>> Harm (10:51):
Oh, exactly. Yeah.
>> Brent (10:52):
I mean, it can compete with damn near anywhere now,
so. But we'll be back.
Hey. And we're back. And we were just talking about the
Shandon Brute California. And we were just talking about
how sparkling wine in California overall is
just really, really coming to its own in the last
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10 or 20 years. Definitely
10 or 15, I'd say. Yeah,
there's. There's some great stuff. And Shandon
is absolutely one of them. I mean, over the
last, I'd say probably 10, 15 years with them. There's.
Theirs has really gotten. Gotten really
tasty. So we're going to give the
Chandon Brute California a well deserved
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three sips.
>> Harm (11:36):
Interesting.
>> Brent (11:39):
So that's going to bring us to our next wine. We're going to have Harm Tell
us about that one.
>> Harm (11:42):
Thanks, Bob. Our next wine is the Chandon brute
rose California, 12% ABV, non
vintage. It's 50, 57%
Chardonnay, 40% Pinot Noir,
3% Pinot Meunier without, uh,
traditional. Whatever. Traditional method. I can't do the French.
The grapes are sourced from multiple
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cool climate appellations with a minimum of 12
months aging. It's got a
beautiful pink. It's. I wouldn't call this salmon. It's. It's just
more. More berry pink.
>> Brent (12:13):
Yeah.
>> Bob (12:14):
Fancy, um, pink.
>> Harm (12:15):
Fancy pink. It's not Barbie pink now.
>> Brent (12:18):
No.
>> Harm (12:19):
On the nose, this was super muted. When it's cold,
especially. I'm a little bit off today. I think my sinuses are dry.
Um, strawberries. Strawberry,
Strawberry, strawberry. And the strawberry.
>> Brent (12:30):
It was. It was the strawberry. Say, see, I did that. I taught
you, but yeah, okay. Nobody else is going to get
that. It's under our age. Yeah. Bogart. Come on. It
was a great movie.
>> Harm (12:40):
I know, but still, you can't Mutiny. Come on,
Dirty rat, you. Different.
Different movie.
>> Brent (12:46):
Different movie, different guy.
>> Harm (12:47):
Yeah.
>> Brent (12:49):
Um, that's James Cagney, and that was Wade. Never mind.
Moving on.
>> Harm (12:54):
Uh, I'm getting, like, a little bit of watermelon, but not like the
flesh, but like the rind. The rind of the
watermelon.
>> Brent (13:01):
Yeah, the watermelon is definitely there.
>> Harm (13:02):
And then on the palate,
there's. The watermelon is coming out there.
A little bit of raspberry. Um,
and I would say there's pomegranate, but it's.
It's a little bit not. You know, actually, I want to say it's closer
to pomegranate than anything else. The strawberry, raspberry,
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pomegranate thing, um,
I really enjoyed this. It's. It's got a longer
finish than the regular one, and, um,
the flavors keep evolving. This is very nice. What
do you think, Justin?
>> Bob (13:37):
I thought that the color was really
cool. They got, like, peaches and cream on the
nose. It was a little
soapy, and that faded off. And
then after it faded off, it got, like, more
floral.
>> Harm (13:51):
I think you tasted too. Too cold. That soap, you know, it
was. That was way too cold. Yeah.
>> Bob (13:56):
On the palette, I got watermelon, uh,
cantaloupe, the finish
green, uh, raisins and, uh, pears.
And I thought it was pleasant, refreshing.
>> Harm (14:09):
I'm not getting raisin. It's close. I see what you're saying with the sweetness.
M. But it's not raisin.
It's something else. Uh, what if she said
Pear. Right. I think pear might be a good one, Bob.
>> Brent (14:21):
Uh, well, just, you know, so the listeners are
aware, whenever we do sparkling wines
or white wines, we tend to basically
chill the hell out of them.
>> Harm (14:31):
Yeah.
>> Brent (14:32):
Beyond what, you know, wine
geeks would normally chill because
the vast majority of consumers
will drink it too damn cold. Too damn cold.
So we kind of do that on purpose so we can get some
notes. And we will take notes, and as we're preparing
for each episode, we'll spend an hour, plus
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preparing for the episode and taking tasty notes as it
slowly warms up and slowly warms up to a more
acceptable wine geek kind of temperature. Um,
so, yeah, I. I definitely picked up some of the notes. Justin
was saying, we opened it. You. You didn't even get. You got no
nose off of it all.
>> Harm (15:08):
Smell it when it's absolutely cold.
>> Brent (15:09):
And I kept telling you, let it warm, let it warm, let it warm. Now that
it's warmed up, the nose is popping. I mean, it's. This is
delicious. It's. There's.
This. The strawberries just
absolutely leap out of the glass. To me, it's.
It's more wild strawberries
picking on the side of the road. Up in the mountains where my
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family's from, up North Carolina, the little wild strawberries,
they're much more intense. I'm getting that.
I definitely get the watermelon on it.
I think you're right. I think on the nose, it's more rind than it
is watermelon. Uh, the flesh of it. But
on the palate. Hold on.
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On the palate. Boom. Strawberries.
I still. I do get a little bit of the watermelon on the back
palate. Um, I
got the raspberries.
I get a little bit of a sweet pastry on the back.
Just a slight little bit of the easiness. But it's. This is a.
This is delicious. It's a nice.
>> Harm (16:12):
I didn't mention the pastry in it, but you're right, it was there.
>> Brent (16:14):
Yeah, there's. There's just that slight bit of, like.
Was like a buttered croissant, maybe.
>> Harm (16:20):
No, it's not a croissant. It's something else.
>> Brent (16:22):
It's something. I can't put my finger on it, but there is a
pastry back there. Um, but
absolutely delicious. I mean, the front palate is a fruit bomb. But
this is well done. And the. The finish goes well.
>> Harm (16:33):
We call it a fruit bomb. But it's not sweet. It's
dry. Rose.
>> Brent (16:36):
No, not sweet at all.
>> Harm (16:38):
Uh, I mean, because I have. I have to Deal with the public,
general public all the time, and they always want sweet.
>> Brent (16:44):
Sorry.
>> Harm (16:44):
Yeah, I know.
>> Bob (16:45):
I am getting, like, a Cuban bread note on it.
>> Brent (16:48):
That could be it. Pan Cubano.
>> Harm (16:51):
Yeah. But it's. It's, um. It's still
dry, but you get those beautiful floral and
fruit flavors that come out and it. This
is perfectly serviceable. Food warming. I mean, I would have
this by itself, too. It's great.
>> Brent (17:04):
And again, the finish on this one is. Is
vastly better than. Than the first one.
And the first one was fine, but this one
stays with you.
>> Harm (17:13):
Uh, the thing is, you'll find that the mousse does not last. There's
not enough bubble compared to, like, real champagne from France.
But they still do a good job as you drink it
earlier. We've had this in the glass for an hour.
>> Brent (17:25):
Yeah. And. Well. And it's been open for an hour, so to be fair,
the moose is blown off a good bit off of this one.
>> Bob (17:31):
But, uh, the mousse is loose.
>> Brent (17:33):
Yeah.
>> Harm (17:33):
But it's, um. It's still got a fine.
Like those really fine bubbles, like real stuff from champagne, which is actually
great.
>> Brent (17:39):
Oh, no, that's. The mousse in there is.
>> Harm (17:42):
Is used to be very hard for them to do in California. It
was always very coarse.
>> Brent (17:46):
Yeah. See, you just poured it. Look at the mousse on
that. It's really nice.
>> Harm (17:50):
Yeah.
>> Brent (17:51):
Yeah, they do. I'm telling you, Shandon's doing some great stuff.
They have one that's only available at the winery and it's
infused with Earl Grey tea. And it sounds really weird
and messed up, and let me tell you, it's one of the most delicious things you'll
ever have.
>> Harm (18:04):
I would love to try that.
>> Brent (18:05):
I wish they sold it regularly. Every time we go, I go,
you know, I'm going to run by the gift shop and grab one and then we get busy and
I don't. It sounds odd, but they
play so well together.
>> Harm (18:16):
Are they infusing with bergamot?
That's the citrus they use.
>> Brent (18:20):
I don't think they're just using bergamot. I think they're actually using
Earl Grey tea. Yeah.
>> Harm (18:24):
That's crazy.
>> Brent (18:25):
Yeah, it is. It's weird, but it works.
>> Harm (18:27):
I love that. I love that kind of thing. I would love to try that.
>> Brent (18:29):
Why? Love Earthway? I mean, I. I have a glass
of Earl Grey every morning at work, so it's sort of
my thing. But, um. Yeah.
>> Harm (18:37):
That does not make you Picard. Stop. You are
not Captain Picard.
>> Brent (18:41):
I am not Picard. I never would Be Picard. I am
Kirk, baby.
>> Harm (18:45):
Oh, you're no Kirk.
>> Brent (18:45):
100% Kirk. All the. All the
green chicks love me. So. So we're going
to give the.
>> Harm (18:52):
That's only because they turn green after they're with you.
>> Brent (18:54):
Yes, exactly. There's a shot
for that. So we're. We're going to give the Shandon, uh,
Brute Rose, California, well deserved. Four sips.
>> Harm (19:03):
That's classified.
>> Brent (19:06):
So, Justin, tell us about the Post and Beam Chardonnay.
>> Bob (19:09):
Post and Beam is based in Napa Valley.
It's named for simple yet elegant
barns that dot the American
landscape. Established in 2020,
the winery is part of the Far Niente family of
wineries and vineyards, joining Far
Niente, Dolce Nicola
Nickel en route and Bella Union en
(19:31):
route when?
>> Brent (19:33):
Okay. And on.
>> Harm (19:34):
Um.
>> Brent (19:35):
Whatever.
>> Bob (19:36):
So it's a Carneros. The
first Post and beam Carnero Chardonnay
2023. It's, uh,
from Carneros, an Appalachian in
Napa. It's 100 Chardonnay.
It was harvested between, uh, October 11th through the
27th. And we'll be back.
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So the Post and beam Cornero Chardonnay 2023 was
harvested October 11th through the 27th.
It was 30% aged in New French Oak
seven months. Surly. The color
was like a light gold, vibrant yellow.
On the nose. I got, like, creamy croissant, lemon
curd, and pears on the palate,
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Melon and a prominent French oak note.
The finish was, like, soapy pears
and green raisins.
And what did you think, Harm?
>> Brent (20:33):
I think he had some green raisins for lunch. He seems to like those.
Yeah.
>> Harm (20:37):
Lemon. You said lemon curd.
>> Brent (20:39):
Yeah.
>> Harm (20:40):
Yeah, I think that's good. Lemon curd, honeysuckle.
Uh, definitely a little bit of, uh, like,
orange note. Orange blossom. Um,
there's something else there that's. It's like, the rind. It's like
orange rind. It's really great. I
love the nose on this wine. Uh, you know, these guys
make Far Niente Chardonnay, which is freaking fantastic. They
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know what they're doing. Even though this is a different winery, the, uh, grapes are
sourced a little bit differently. Um, this
is gorgeous. The
palate.
Excuse me.
Rookie mistake. Try m and talk with the still wine in your mouth.
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Yep. Um, it
has a beautiful silky entry. I love the way
this feels on the palate. It's. It's round, it's
soft. There's melon, there's pears on, um,
definitely like, Anjou pear. Like that buttery, creamy
pear. Um,
it's Just, it's a hint of oak. Do you say oak on that too? Do you get
(21:42):
the oak? French? Oak French. Yeah. Yeah. I hint with it.
It's not like toasty though. It's like more spicy.
Uh, the finish has got. Doesn't have enough acid for me. A little bit
soft on the acid and a little
bit sweet, but it's very good. It's got a medium to long finish.
Bob, what do you think?
>> Brent (21:59):
I don't mind the acid. I think it's. For me, it's
fine.
>> Harm (22:02):
I like a little bit higher acidity.
>> Brent (22:04):
Yeah. And I get that some people like a little bit
more. I'm totally fine where it's at, but.
>> Harm (22:09):
Um, this would go great with Chilean sea bass. Buttery style
fish.
>> Brent (22:13):
There's lemon curd. There's, uh, orange
rind. There's a little bit of a,
like a orange blossom honey
note on the nose on the palate.
>> Harm (22:27):
M. It's not strongly honey for me, but I see what you're
saying.
>> Brent (22:31):
That's sticky. Just there's that, that, just that
hint on the palate. I'm getting melon.
I'm getting pears.
It's got a great, like you said, silky
mouthfeel. Really gorgeous. Well
made. The viscosity on this is really, really
nice. Um, it's got
a pretty good finish on it. Nice, fresh,
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clean oak, but not, you know,
California Chardonnay. Cougar juice oak.
Just, just a wisp the way it's supposed to be.
>> Harm (23:02):
Right.
>> Brent (23:02):
It's supposed to be a flavor component. It's supposed to elevate the
wine.
>> Harm (23:06):
That whole 90s cougar juice, early 2000s.
>> Brent (23:09):
California wine is finally, I think it's finally died.
>> Harm (23:12):
Yeah.
>> Brent (23:12):
Um, I mean, there's still some out there, but
the vast majority of people have gotten away from it.
>> Harm (23:17):
They're going more balanced.
>> Brent (23:19):
Yeah, I think. Yeah, it's just, it's nice fresh
sawn oak. Um, just that slight little bit of hint
to elevate it and give it that backbone. I think this
is extremely well done. I really like. I really like
this one. So. So we're going to give the Post and
beam Carnera Chardonnay 2023 a
well deserved four sips.
>> Harm (23:38):
That's classified.
>> Brent (23:42):
So that's going to bring us to our next wine from the
same folks at Post and Beam.
So this is the Post and Beam Napa Valley Cabernet
Sauvignon 2022. It
is 14.5,
14.5% ABV.
Um, Appalachian is Napa Valley. It's 91%
Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Merlot 2,
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2% Petite Verdot, 1% Cabernet Francis.
Um, harvested September 9th to October
20th in 2022 and age 10 months in
French oak. Again, 30% new. So
the color,
nice dark garnet to it.
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It's got a nice clear rim to
it
on the nose.
When we first opened it, it had a little bit of a vegetal note
that blew off almost immediately for me,
I'm getting blackberries,
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getting blueberries on the nose, on the palate.
>> Harm (24:50):
Mhm.
>> Brent (24:54):
It's got a great mouthfeel. Really
well rounded, this one. The acidity for me is a little bit
higher than it was on the shard. Definitely
getting a little bit of that mouth water to it.
Cassis, blackberries, blueberries,
dark fruit.
Um,
got a nice finish on it.
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A little bit of a cocoa note on the back palette.
>> Harm (25:19):
For me, I'm not sure your blueberry note at all. I'm gonna keep coming back to
it. I'm not coming.
>> Brent (25:23):
I'm getting very front of the tongue. I get the blueberry,
but it's more for me, it's more. There's that
hint of blueberry, but it's more BlackBerry, more dark
stewed fruit. Very pretty wine.
Very pretty wine. What do you think?
>> Harm (25:36):
Um, I don't disagree with anything you said. Um,
I got a more minerality thing going on with it.
>> Brent (25:42):
Yeah, there's definitely a mineral note to.
>> Harm (25:43):
It, almost a licorice note. I got hoisin, like that plum
sauce, A, uh, little bit of cassis,
and a hint of menthol is still there for me at that point.
That green note, it's.
>> Brent (25:54):
And it's menthol on the nose or the
palate?
>> Harm (25:57):
On the nose. Still on the nose.
>> Brent (25:59):
Yeah, I can see.
>> Harm (26:00):
And a, uh, toast, like, ah, like
toast, not like, um, like
slightly toasted bread.
>> Bob (26:07):
Does anybody in your family smoke cools?
>> Harm (26:10):
No.
>> Brent (26:11):
Okay, Just checking.
>> Harm (26:12):
I do sell them at the ghetto store. Thank you.
>> Brent (26:14):
All right, sure.
>> Bob (26:17):
Because they'll stay on your fingers for a while.
>> Harm (26:19):
Yeah.
>> Brent (26:19):
Yeah.
>> Harm (26:22):
Um, beautiful texture on the palette. Starts out
round a little bit earlier on, I thought it was. I thought
it was too light. I thought the palate was very light bodied.
But giving this time to get some air. The tannins are starting to
polymerize a little bit. I'm getting a better grip on it. I'm
getting more round palette. Um, layers of
flavor. It's. It's. The grip came
late, but it came in and it's good. And the.
(26:45):
The flavors are What Bob said, but I'm not getting quite the blueberry. But
maybe like the. Yeah, it's,
it's, it's really nice and um, it
finishes pretty long. I'm enjoying this, Justin. What'd you
think?
>> Bob (26:57):
So not much to add other than you
gotta let this one open up. Yeah, there was some pretty
unpleasant things going on in the beginning which completely
disappeared an hour in.
>> Brent (27:09):
It was. There was a vegetable note on the nose. 100%.
But after about 10 minutes, gone, completely
gone.
>> Bob (27:15):
You know, I'm a steak and potato.
>> Brent (27:16):
Guys, and real pretty.
>> Bob (27:17):
Yeah, vegetals. Not um, my thing.
>> Harm (27:20):
Yeah, no, no vegetables. I've never.
>> Brent (27:22):
Yeah, I've never seen him eat a vegetable before, so. Uh. Yeah.
>> Bob (27:25):
Explains a lot.
>> Brent (27:26):
But.
>> Harm (27:26):
Yeah, I'm not going to make the joke.
>> Brent (27:29):
Yeah, don't go there. We're
on radio, remember? Yeah, you
gotta kind of try.
>> Harm (27:36):
You got, you gotta hear some of Justin stories.
>> Bob (27:41):
I do eat pie.
>> Brent (27:42):
Yeah.
>> Harm (27:42):
All right.
>> Brent (27:42):
If you.
>> Harm (27:43):
Yeah.
>> Brent (27:43):
Just. Just not vegetables. Yeah, right.
>> Harm (27:46):
Correct. That vegetable note. That or the vegetable
note I'm getting right now. For me, it's like. It's not. You said
blueberry. I'm getting like that. That, uh, the stem
part.
>> Brent (27:54):
Yeah.
>> Harm (27:55):
You know, it's, it's that woody note for the blueberry. When you eat
fresh blueberries, that's um, that's
what that is. Yeah. Yeah.
>> Brent (28:03):
Well, we're going to be giving the post and Beam Napa Valley Cabernet
Sauvignon 2022 a well deserved four sips.
>> Harm (28:10):
That's classified. Yep.
>> Brent (28:12):
So let's have Harm tell us about our next one.
>> Harm (28:15):
All right, let's. Let's get started before the next commercial here.
Okay. This, uh, is, uh, Maris.
Maris began as the quintessential garage wine. Made by
Maris founders Erica J. Goth and Mark
Harold in the two car garage behind their home
in the town of Napa. The wine won international
renown starting with their first vintage in
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1998. But the garage imposed serious
limitations. Purchased by the William Foley of Foley
Family, the wine group, uh, in
2007, one of his first goals was to find a
Napa Valley winery
site worthy of the brand. A few months later, he
acquired a historic ranch tucked into a canyon on the east side of the
valley. One of Napa's fabled ghost
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wineries, it had been abandoned in the wake of, uh,
Prohibition and only recently brought back to life.
Now fully updated, the winery includes custom made
winemaking equipment, 7,000 square feet of caves, which
is kind of small for the barrel storage along with
tasting salon and A second tasting area in
the caves. The Maris Napavelli Cabernet
Sauvignon 2019 is 15.8% ABV.
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It's from Napa Valley. 97% Cabernet Sauvignon from
Coombesville, 3% Petit Verdot from Yountville.
The grapes were cold soaked for five days prior to
inoculation and a warm fermentation
to dryness. During the fermentation, the juice
was pumped over twice daily in small capacity tanks for
nine days. The wine was pressed off of the skins
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and moved back to tank for a full malolactic
fermentation and then barreled in
100% new French oak for 24 months.
I'm kind of rushing through this because we're coming to a commercial which is starting in
three seconds. Two, one.
And we're back. So the color of this is,
(30:04):
uh, gorgeous. Um, hold on, there's the. Right, there it
is. This is a gorgeous deep garnet
with violet edges. And on the nose,
earlier on I was getting a lot of cassis and BlackBerry.
Uh, right now it's going to a
subtle, um, spicy, um, hint.
A little bit of clove. I'm getting vanilla bean and
(30:24):
cedar, lots of cedar. Maybe a hint of
graphite. I'm not sure about that. And still
got that. A good mineral note to it. This one is
different from that post and beam. This is kind of a more full bodied
wine
when I first had it. And now this is big on the
palate. Very plush. The tannins are
(30:45):
velvety. Those, uh, cassis
and cedar notes are coming out of the palette. Uh,
it's really got great grip. This is a definitely a steak
wine. It's, you can get the American
oak. I'm sorry, this French oak, right. You get that,
you get that oak on there and that's, I guess that's where, I guess where that,
that clove note was coming. And
(31:05):
it's got a long, long finish. It's
structured, powerful.
Um, there's nothing wrong with this wine. I'm,
I'm really enjoying it, Bob.
>> Brent (31:16):
Absolutely delicious. Yeah. The cassis and the
BlackBerry on the nose are there. The cedar is 100% there.
It's like your grandmother's cedar chest. I get a
graphite mineral, mineral note on the
nose. On the palate, it's just dark
fruits, dark fruits, dark fruits.
Beautiful silky tannins. A really great
mouthfeel.
>> Harm (31:37):
Um, I don't think the tannins are silky. It's more
velvety. We tried, got rougher texture.
>> Brent (31:43):
But is this velvet? This Is beautiful. Yeah,
we tried this, uh, a while back and met.
Met some folks at a big wine event we were at. And
I said, I have to have this for the show. I reached out to them and they were
kind enough to send us a bottle. Um, and it's also a
2019, so it's got a little bit more time on it. I
knew this wine. I knew it wouldn't disappoint. It's fantastic. What do you think,
(32:03):
Justin?
>> Bob (32:04):
I'm very excited to be drinking this. This morning
I definitely got the fruit and then
half bakery, half machine shop on the nose.
And those are positive.
>> Harm (32:15):
Oh, I know you're talking about that. Minarelli is a machine shop.
>> Bob (32:18):
Yeah, it's like, oh, I'm gonna go somewhere and do a thing.
And it was plush, like it, you know, came from a
couch from the 70s, you know, on the palate.
Lots of soft fruit, uh,
berries, blackberries. The
finish was like, this is like a classy wine.
If you were hanging out in this guy's garage, he whips us out and drinks.
(32:38):
You're like, oh, I must be in Napa, because this is serious wine.
>> Brent (32:41):
Yeah, I don't think I'd leave the garage if this was there. Nah.
Well, we're going to be giving the Maris Napa Valley Cabernet
Sauvignon 2019. A well deserved four
sibs.
>> Harm (32:51):
That's classified easy. It came close to a five for me.
Yeah, almost. Not almost, but not quite there.
>> Brent (32:56):
All right, Justin, tell us about, uh, Chappelle.
>> Bob (32:58):
I'm excited about this. So Chappellee,
Pritchard Hill Cabernet Sauvignon 2021.
It's 14.8% alcohol by volume, of course, from
Pritchard Hill in Napa Valley. It's
95 cabernet sauvignon, 5%
petite verdot. The color is
dark. It smells like a cigar shop
(33:19):
with beautiful flowers out front. The
palette is concentrated fruit,
potpourri and dark chocolate. And the
finish is heaven in a glass. What did you think,
Bob?
>> Brent (33:32):
Well, I've got a particular affiliation with this on one. We've done
quite a bit of chapel on the show. But,
um, I was out in Napa with our
executive producer and they were very kind to have us
out and they pulled a barrel sample of the upcoming
Pritchard Hill for us, which is this very wine. So
I was adamant, I wanted to get it. Um, and
fortunately we were back again recently.
(33:55):
Um, in. Was it January?
>> Harm (33:57):
March.
>> Brent (33:57):
March. We were there in March. And,
uh, the girls actually were talking to a gentleman in the
parking lot turned out to be Cyril Chappelle. And he said, oh yeah, we'll
send you one, no problem. So thank you, Cyril.
>> Bob (34:08):
Thank you, uh, amazing wine.
>> Harm (34:10):
Thank your wives.
>> Brent (34:11):
We already knew that it was a great wine, but thank you especially
for sending this one because I got to try it from the barrel and I've got
tribe from the bottle and it is
absolutely fantastic.
Black currants, black raspberries, tobacco
notes, some graphite,
a little bit of herbal note to it, and some dark
(34:31):
chocolate. This is, this is everything you want
from, from a Pritchard Hill. I mean, this is,
it's classic amazing wine. What'd you think, Harm?
>> Harm (34:40):
I. I've been selling Pritchard Hill from
Chappellet for years and this vintage is no
different. It is freaking amazing.
Gorgeous, rich, lush wine. You're gonna
have to open up your wallet and dig in deep. Or just
use the plastic. Just use the plastic. Um, it's fine.
It. You. It's worth the every penny.
>> Brent (35:00):
Yeah, you can always file bankruptcy and wipe it.
>> Bob (35:04):
The small monthly payments for 48 months would be
nominal.
>> Harm (35:08):
Depends on your budget. But look, I've sell much more expensive.
>> Brent (35:10):
Get your priorities in order, friend. You know, spend the money on
the good wine.
>> Bob (35:13):
Yeah, it'll make that steak taste even better
than.
>> Harm (35:17):
Oh, it definitely does, but super
concentrated. Oh, so, so
ripe fruit. And, and there's that oak,
the, the.
>> Brent (35:26):
Um, that underlayment that.
>> Harm (35:28):
Yeah.
>> Brent (35:29):
Base of the oak.
>> Harm (35:31):
They say what kind of oak they use? They don't say, but I think
it's got to be a. Mostly French and American. Or mostly
French maybe, if there's any, if there's any Americans really toasted.
It's got that great nose. I love this.
And it's so rich on the palate.
Um, it's got that herbal note, it's got plenty
of spice, like anise coming out,
(35:52):
some nutmeg. Wow,
it's you. You said the chocolate notes. That's what
predominates for me.
>> Brent (36:00):
Yeah.
>> Bob (36:01):
Pretty dark chocolate.
>> Harm (36:03):
Yeah.
>> Brent (36:03):
Ah, yeah, I get the chocolate on the finish. More than
just on the initial sip.
>> Harm (36:08):
No, it smells in the back. Not even the finish. I'm talking. I
smell that dark chocol.
>> Brent (36:13):
Hold on.
>> Bob (36:15):
Yeah, Steve.
>> Harm (36:17):
On the palate. Such great grip. This,
this will, uh, cut any fat from
any great steak you're eating. Yeah. And it will just
make the next bite taste better. That's why you need these tannic
heavy wines.
>> Brent (36:30):
The, the problem is, is this isn't only an hour long show and I
could spend two hours just talking about this Particular.
>> Harm (36:36):
Oh yeah, of course.
>> Brent (36:37):
I mean because it just continues to evolve in the glass.
>> Harm (36:40):
You. So when we drink wines with heavy tannins like this
and we pair them with meats because the tannins
cut that fat. It pulls it right off your tongue.
So the next bite you taste more.
The fat's not covering your tongue
like.
>> Bob (36:55):
The first bite every time.
>> Harm (36:57):
Yeah.
>> Brent (36:57):
It awakens your palate. It allows you to taste the
meat. It allows you to also taste the wine at the same time.
>> Harm (37:03):
So such great grip on m this.
>> Brent (37:05):
Well, I mean Chaplet makes great wine. It's a
beautiful, beautiful winery. Stunning
up on top of the mountain.
>> Harm (37:12):
I don't care about the winery. I'm talking about the wine. Bob.
>> Brent (37:14):
One of the earliest wineries there. I mean it was Bob
Mondavi built his and then the Chaplet family built theirs
literally like months later. It's a pyramid on top
of the mountain. And it is like its own ecosystem up there. So
cool. Absolutely gorgeous. But the wine. I've never
had a wine from them that I didn't go. Damn.
>> Bob (37:31):
Great views from Napa. If you go to visit.
>> Brent (37:33):
Yeah, yeah.
>> Bob (37:34):
And do visit.
>> Brent (37:35):
If you are in Napa 100% you
need to put these folks on. I mean all of these
you need to visit. But yeah. Chapel a
chapel. Ah. A's other. Another order.
>> Harm (37:46):
So they're Pritchard. They're Pritchard Hill Cab. They who's uh,
Jefferson's use this to age their uh, their bourbon
in one of the. One of the
few wine finished bourbons. I love Pritchard Hill make
good stuff, man. Yeah, anything for Hill.
>> Brent (38:00):
But well, we were there, we had a great time. We saw
some turkeys wandering around. It was just cool.
And we got to meet Cyril. So
we're going to give the chapel a Pritchard Hill Cabernet
7 2021. We're
giving it five because we don't have six.
>> Harm (38:17):
Oh my goodness. There's no six.
>> Brent (38:20):
Yeah, there should be an 11, but these go to
11. So fantastic wine.
Absolutely fantastic wine. So this was. This was
a good flight guys. Really good flight. So
want to thank my co host for joining me today.
Thank you, Justin.
>> Bob (38:36):
Thank you, Bob.
>> Brent (38:38):
Don't thank me. I didn't make the wine. I just poured it
and thank you, Harm.
>> Harm (38:43):
You know, I don't often mean it, but I mean it today. Thank you, Bob.
>> Brent (38:46):
No, you never mean it. Come on.
>> Harm (38:48):
Uh, no. Not once.
>> Brent (38:49):
Not once.
>> Harm (38:49):
This. My teeth are purple and I'm m happy.
>> Brent (38:52):
Thank you. If you're not happy after this tasting good, there's
something wrong with you. Well, for Sip, Suds and Smokes, this
is made man. Bob, we thank you for joining us. And remember, life is
too short to drink bad wine. And foil boy,
today we did not drink any bad wine. So
yeah, hand me that. Hand me that.
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