What would Proust Drink? A WLDG survey, Part 4

[David M. Bueker]

Peter Jackson has got nothing on us. He made 3 Hobbit movies, but we have 4 parts to the Proust survey, and no Dwarf/Elf love story!

This is the last part. Five more questions. Most folks know the drill, but if this is the first time you have clicked on the series, a quick review of Part 1 will give you the background. Feel free to check in on Parts 2 and 3 as well.

As per usual, copy and paste the questions into your post, and tell us your answers:

Your wine dream is…
Your wine nightmare is…
Your favorite wine is…
Your least favorite wine is…
The very last wine you want to taste on your deathbed is…

Now if you will all excuse me, I am going to go have a cup of coffee and a madeleine.

Your wine dream is…
To wake up as owner of a beautiful and profitable fine wine growing and making estate

Your wine nightmare is…
Losing my sense of taste and appetite through a stroke (or something else). This is on my mind because our old Catalan sheepdog has been refusing all food since last Thursday as a result of a stroke.

Your favorite wine is…
A very tough one. At its best, red Burgundy is closer to my heart than anything else with my best bottle being La Tâche 1962

Your least favorite wine is…
Again lots of competition. My least favourite wine type is South Australian Shiraz but I'm open to attempts to get me to change my mind. My worst individual bottle recently was Tres Picos 2012 from Bodegas Borsao.

The very last wine you want to taste on your deathbed is…
Tokay Essence, which is said to revive the dying. Or perhaps a Tba from Prüm, Müller, Dönnhoff........Huet moelleux 1947.....

[Robin Garr]

Handy reference links for those who'd like to go straight back to any of the previous three Proust sections:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Your wine dream is...…I walk into a room and am immediately served a glass of Schloss Johannisberg 1976 TBA Riesling by a beautiful blonde Swede ( gal that is), followed by a glass of 1990 DRC La Tache. Our final shared glass of the evening is a glass of Hungarian Tokaji Essencia, and then off to bed!

Your wine nightmare is…all the wines are corked and the gal is actually a guy!

Your favorite wine is…15-20 yr. old Napa Cabernet

Your least favorite wine is…any Sauvignon Blanc followed by Pinotage

The very last wine you want to taste on your deathbed is…old vintage Krug Champagne

[David M. Bueker]

Your wine dream is…sitting with a glass of Champagne or Riesling, in the mountains with Laura...it's nice that we get to do that every once in a while

Your wine nightmare is…a life of Yellowtail

Your favorite wine is…German Riesling Auslese - I just cannot get more specific than that.

Your least favorite wine is…99.9999% of Sauvignon Blanc made in the world

The very last wine you want to taste on your deathbed is…Dönnhoff Eiswein

[Robin Garr]

Your wine dream is…
To be stuck in that glorious period (late ’70s, early ‘80s) when I was first discovering fine wine as an adult, and with the rest of the Boomers, recognizing with joy that a new world was opening between the traditional categories of rich snobs and street winos. Everything wine seemed possible then, when you could still get top Bordeaux for $25 (what an investment!), the best CalCabs for $10 or $15, and delicious Tuscans from $5 to $10. No Parker, no Spectator, to boss us around or drive the herds toward trophies, just friendly guides like Hugh Johnson, Frank Schoonmaker, Hank Rubin and more. (Even Parker was a modest, unassuming fellow when I met him in 1984, just before he rode the ’82 Bordeaux to fame.)

Your wine nightmare is…
To be stuck in that same period when we had all the Bordeaux and California goodies and Chiantis that we wanted, but almost everything else was difficult to find or even unknown. What? Australia makes wine? Ha! Next you’ll tell me that New Zealand makes wine!

Your favorite wine is…
Northern Italians and Southern Rhones. Can’t narrow it further.

Your least favorite wine is…
Horrifying industrial wine and/or Parkerized blockbusters.

The very last wine you want to taste on your deathbed is…
Puzelat-Bonhomme Pineau d’Aunis. With my dear bride if I pre-decease her; in her memory if I go last. Not for its greatness, though we do love its lean minerality, but because it’s a special wine with romantic echoes for us, and we share it on every birthday and anniversary.

Your wine dream is…

A cellar full of beautifully aged wines from all parts of the world, time to putter around in it to my heart's content, and friends coming by every evening to share it with.

Your wine nightmare is…

I am the last person left alive on Earth after a nuclear apocalypse (or some such). I stumble upon the last wine cellar left on Earth, and there is nothing in it but red wine made from overripe grapes with no abv less than 15.5%.

Your favorite wine is…

The next one I have from a grape, region, or winemaking technique that I've never run across before.

The very last wine you want to taste on your deathbed is…

Something white, sweet, and complex, with tremendous length. Could be from Germany or the Loire or maybe somewhere else. It would be nice to start whatever the next life is with a lovely flavor lingering in my mouth.

Your wine dream is… To live in one of the great wine producing regions of the world for a period of time.

Your wine nightmare is… Red wines served hot at restaurants. "Room temperature" is not 75 F.

Your favorite wine is… Favorite in terms of most memorable is red burgundy. Red burg would also lead my list of most disappointing wines.

Your least favorite wine is… Nondescript, high alcohol, overpriced goop. Also, I have not tasted an NZ pinot that has done anything for me.

The very last wine you want to taste on your deathbed is… it is tempting to go with a wine I have never tasted, but I would have to select a 2000 d' Angerville Clos des Ducs. A delicate wine, but with a finish that just did not quit. I would be guaranteed to die with its taste on my lips.

Your wine dream is… To be able to add any desired wine to my collection just by wishing it.


Your wine nightmare is… Broken bottles and/or prematurely oxidized white Burgundies.


Your favorite wine is… red Burgundy, often from Volnay or Chambolle Musigny

Your least favorite wine is… Pinotage


The very last wine you want to taste on your deathbed is… (this could also be taken as I want to taste anything BUT this)

An Eiswein from the Mosel might just be the stuff of pleasant final dreams but a great Grand Cru red Burgundy would also send me off in style.

Your wine dream is…That Jenise would get off my back about Tobin James

Your wine nightmare is…That she won't

Your favorite wine is…Tobin James Zinfandel (any of them)

Your least favorite wine is…Sauvignon Blanc

The very last wine you want to taste on your deathbed is…Don't think they will let me have any

Your wine dream is…
#1 - A perfectly prepared 7 course dinner with stunning wine pairings.
#2 - That I will be able to make a truly outstanding wine from grapes I grew myself.
Your wine nightmare is…
Having all the bottles of my home made sparkling wine explode.
Your favorite wine is…
Lafite
Your least favorite wine is…
NZ Sauvignon Blanc
The very last wine you want to taste on your deathbed is…
Yquem

Your wine dream is…
#1 - A perfectly prepared 7 course dinner with stunning wine pairings.
#2 - That I will be able to make a truly outstanding wine from grapes I grew myself.
Your wine nightmare is…
Having all the bottles of my home made sparkling wine explode.
Your favorite wine is…
Lafite
Your least favorite wine is…
NZ Sauvignon Blanc
The very last wine you want to taste on your deathbed is…
Yquem

Why not Lafite Howie?

[Jenise]

Your wine dream is…

Hmm...after very little thought, it would probably involve dinner at Domaine Romanee Conti and a meal including, but not limited to, 78 La Tache.

Your wine nightmare is…

Yellow Tail pinot grigio. Anywhere.

Your favorite wine is…

I don't think I've had it yet. The hunt continues.

Your least favorite wine is…

Most of the answers above involve a grape, or a grape as made in a certain place. I don't think that categorically as a rule, but just to annoy Carl I'll say Paso Robles Zinfandel.

The very last wine you want to taste on your deathbed is…

A well aged good vintage Petrus. Don't own any, never had one (did buy one once that was probably a Rudy Kuniawan imposter), and this would certainly be my last chance, so....

[David M. Bueker]

OK Jenise-what is currently your favorite wine?

[Jenise]

OK Jenise-what is currently your favorite wine?

This is going to sound flakey, but it's whatever I recently had that I loved and made me think "I don't have enough of this in my cellar." Bordeaux probably wins that contest most of the time, but if I owned more Burgundy it would be a tie. A great Barolo or a really well-cellared '91 Napa Cab can do it for me, too. But based on what I own the most of: Bordeaux.

[Jenise]

I'm fascinated by how many people listed Sauvignon Blanc as their least favorite wine. I know David doesn't care for it, but I'm surprised to see how many others put it dead last--whether it's NZ or from anywhere else. Definitely a favorite of mine.