View Full Version : Choose my wine tonight.
I have 4 bottles. Pick one.
I am cooking Veal Bolongnese.
I will chose by non-scientific stoner logic from the replies in this thread.
2003 Bogle Cabernet Sauvignon
2004 Trinity Oaks Pinot Noir
2004 Peachy Canyon Zinfandel Incerdibly Red Bin119
2003 Estrella Pinot Noir (1.75l :D)
voting starts....now.
LordOpie
03-14-2006, 02:41 PM
I refuse to vote as I cannot support eating veal.
Yes, I eat meat, yes, I know cows aren't treated as well as I would prefer, but I cannot support eating an animal treated as badly as veal.
Sorry.
Don't apologize Mr. Sensitivity. :D
My Mother refuses to eat anything with a face or a mother. Get your chicks opinion if she is around, that is...if she is more of a man than you are!!!:rofl:
narlus
03-14-2006, 02:52 PM
drink the 1.75L bottle.
more wine, duh.
:D
btw, i'd say the cab and zin might be too much for the taste of veal.
narlus
03-14-2006, 02:53 PM
oh, and when LordOpie comes to my house, i am serving foie gras.
:D
Nobody
03-14-2006, 03:38 PM
The Zin.
Veal is a lightly flavored beef, basically, and the Pinot's are the boldest flavors i see there.
I think the Cab would work best for a Rib-Eye, personally.
SkaredShtles
03-14-2006, 03:49 PM
Go get a Barbera. :p
I'd recommend the Pico Maccario.
LordOpie
03-14-2006, 03:51 PM
oh, and when LordOpie comes to my house, i am serving foie gras.
:D
when?
Cool!
And foie gras is just evil.
ironically, I used to think hunting was wrong, but now I realize it's the only true and honest way to be a carnivore.
SkaredShtles
03-14-2006, 04:11 PM
<snip>
ironically, I used to think hunting was wrong, but now I realize it's the only true and honest way to be a carnivore.
Hogwash. You could raise your stock and then ruthlessly slaughter them when the time comes. :p
Mmmm........ dead animal flesh. :drool:
LordOpie
03-14-2006, 04:18 PM
Hogwash. You could raise your stock and then ruthlessly slaughter them when the time comes. :p
Mmmm........ dead animal flesh. :drool:
as long as the stock you raise is free range, cool.
I'm all for eating animals, I just think we should treat them better while they're alive.
LordOpie
03-14-2006, 04:22 PM
And Fred, yeah, I'll ask my woman when I get home, uhh, but that'll be like 8pmEST, so maybe too late for your dinner.
And Fred, yeah, I'll ask my woman when I get home, uhh, but that'll be like 8pmEST, so maybe too late for your dinner.
yeah, that is close to my bedtime.
SS-thanks, for playing!
LordOpie
03-14-2006, 04:32 PM
8pm is your bedtime?
8pm is your bedtime?
yeah, I go to work at 3am.
LordOpie
03-14-2006, 04:52 PM
:eek:
SkaredShtles
03-14-2006, 04:52 PM
as long as the stock you raise is free range, cool.
I'm all for eating animals, I just think we should treat them better while they're alive.
Ours always got to run around at will. Well, within reason. We did have a fence. Then we'd kill 'em and eat 'em. :drool:
SkaredShtles
03-14-2006, 04:53 PM
yeah, that is close to my bedtime.
SS-thanks, for playing!
Seriously. Go get a Barbera. :)
Seriously. Go get a Barbera. :)
I am not leaving the house tonight...plus, I spent my weekly wine allowance today. :mumble:
OGRipper
03-14-2006, 05:29 PM
The Zin.
Veal is a lightly flavored beef, basically, and the Pinot's are the boldest flavors i see there.
I think the Cab would work best for a Rib-Eye, personally.
Funny, I generally find Zin to be more bold than Pinot Noir, at least to my palate.
Do we have to pick just one? I would drink the Trinity Oaks Pinot while cooking and the Zin with dinner. :)
^:mumble:
yeah, I go to work at 3am.
OGRipper
03-14-2006, 06:41 PM
^:mumble:
Ok, ok. :) If you are making a full-flavored bolognese (lots of aromatics, spices, etc.) or a heavy one on the creamy side I would go with the Zin because I think it will cut through a little better. But if you are doing a less assertive sauce with a focus on the veal, drink the Trinity Pinot.
I should have gone with the Zin. I opened both Pinots & both are like sucking on a jolly rancher, but the Trinity is like sucking on a jolly rancher & a rind of grapefruit. better luck next time. :dead:
laura
03-14-2006, 06:53 PM
I refuse to vote as I cannot support eating veal.
Yes, I eat meat, yes, I know cows aren't treated as well as I would prefer, but I cannot support eating an animal treated as badly as veal.
Sorry.
well good for you and your morals. I was a vegetarian, but veal is too good to pass up. I'd eat baby if it tasted as good as my dinner tonight.
the sauce was definitely less assertive & the recipe had no dairy. does that sound odd to you?
OGRipper
03-14-2006, 07:14 PM
the sauce was definitely less assertive & the recipe had no dairy. does that sound odd to you?
Well the recipes I see usually have some 1/2 & 1/2 or cream added in at some point (as in Nobody's recipe) but I guess it's open to interpretation. Sorry the wines didn't work out so well.
I refuse to vote as I cannot support eating veal.
Yes, I eat meat, yes, I know cows aren't treated as well as I would prefer, but I cannot support eating an animal treated as badly as veal.
Sorry.
But the meat is so tender when they kill them before they can walk.....
Go with the Cab Sav.
Nobody
03-14-2006, 08:24 PM
I should have gone with the Zin. I opened both Pinots & both are like sucking on a jolly rancher, but the Trinity is like sucking on a jolly rancher & a rind of grapefruit. better luck next time. :dead:
I was right about the Zin.
I knew it.
I'm god.
okay, kidding.
just a lucky stab in the dark.
mostly, i had just made a damn fine bolognese last Saturday and had the leftovers on Monday and the wine we had with it was a Zin.
partly, i just love real red zin.
Nobody
03-14-2006, 08:27 PM
the sauce was definitely less assertive & the recipe had no dairy. does that sound odd to you?
Yes. Check my own version to see if there's significant variance.
blah blah blah, me me me, i i i, yadda yadda.
Fact is, i'm trying to pin down the best of the best, so that's why i post my own recipes. Where they have flaws, i rely on others to help 'fix' them...
SkaredShtles
03-14-2006, 09:09 PM
Funny, I generally find Zin to be more bold than Pinot Noir, at least to my palate.
:stupid:
Do we have to pick just one? I would drink the Trinity Oaks Pinot while cooking and the Zin with dinner. :)
:stupid: :stupid:
SkaredShtles
03-14-2006, 09:10 PM
the sauce was definitely less assertive & the recipe had no dairy. does that sound odd to you?
Nope. My classic bolognese doesn't have any dairy.
But cream makes it better.
Should've blown your wad and gotten a Barbera. ;)
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