Yearly recap and wine resolutions thread

[dananne]

I would love to hear from the folks on this board on the following topics:

1. Favorite wine of the year?
2. What special bottle was finally opened this year?
3. Your favorite "value" or "house" wine this year?
4. Your "wine discovery" of the year?
5. Wine-related resolutions for 2008?

I'll start:
Favorite wine this year was probably the 2005 Ken Wright Elton Vineyard Pinot Noir or the 2005 Harvest Moon RRV Pinot Noir. Anne would probably toss in the Acacia Beckstoffer Vineyard Pinot Noir for a 3-way tie.

A "special bottle" we finally opened this year was the '98 Beaux Freres Pinot Noir, which we bought on our 7th anniversary back in 2002 and opened last week on Christmas Eve.

Favorite "value/house" wine might actually be an '05 Fleurie Beaujolais from Duboeuf, though (as always) we drank a lot of Vina Alarba. Also on the value list this year might be the '04 CMS red from Hedges.

Best "wine discovery" this year was the iconoclastic stuff from Harvest Moon. Also had a blast "discovering" some neat Austrian reds.

My/our wine resolution is to get better versed in Italian wines, though we say that every year and never end up doing it. Also I would like to resolve to drink more Cab. We hardly ever drink Cab, mainly because the nicer ones we started buying as we got more into wines just haven't gotten around to maturity yet, nor have the ones we bought on our '05 and '06 trips to WA or the trip this year to Sonapanoma. So, hopefully a few Cabs will start to find their way into my glass.

[This message has been edited by dananne (edited 01-01-2008).]