[jbo_c]

Let's help WineExpert and ourselves by suggesting to Tim what winemakers(from this forum at least) would most like to have from a Crushendo kit.

For the record, this post is not necessarily authorized, promoted, or necessarily even read by Tim Vandergrift or anyone else at WineExpert. I just thought it would be a good way to give feedback to them if they do read it and also to learn of each other's style preferences.

Jbo

[MedPretzel]

I'm still voting for a Dornfelder. I know, I know, it ain't gonna happen, but I'm still voting for it!

[Tim Vandergrift]

Ain't enough Dornfelder planted on the planet, I don't think.

Interesting poll! I'll bring a copy of it to the next product development meeting.

[c_fusion]

...what winemakers(from this forum at least) would most like to have from a Crushendo kit.

just voted.

How about a Nebbiolo?

[Joel]

Tim, perhaps at the meeting someone could bring up the opportunity to advertise on the WinePress.US site to help cover some of my ongoing costs of running the largest wine making & grape growing discussion forum on the entire Internet...... :rolleyes:

[rrs18]

  TimV. Oct 5 2004, 11:35 PM Ain't enough Dornfelder planted on the planet, I don't think.

Presently there exist 2600 hectares of Dornfelder in Wurttemberg, in Palatinate and Hessia in Germany.

Is that enough?

[Tim Vandergrift]

Joel, I'm doing my best to support this site--it surely is the best.

I happen to know as well that many of the manufacturers and players in the industry read it pretty closely. Time to put a hammerlock on the money people!

rrs, those recalcitrant Germans won't sell. I can get a dribble of Dornfelder out of northern Italy (of all places) but not enough to make a decent run of kits.

But, all things seem to come around.

[rrs18]

I guess 2600 hectares is a little over 6400 acres. This has absolutly no meaning to me or what the yield would be, in any event. And Germans, and those of German heritage, like me, are in general, recalcitrant. Just ask my wife. Or my former employers.

[MedPretzel]

Uh, I had to look recalcitrant up..... Here's what Webster's says:

Main Entry: re·cal·ci·trant
Pronunciation: -tr&nt
Function: adjective
Etymology: Late Latin recalcitrant-, recalcitrans, present participle of recalcitrare to be stubbornly disobedient, from Latin, to kick back, from re- + calcitrare to kick, from calc-, calx heel
1 : obstinately defiant of authority or restraint
2 a : difficult to manage or operate b : not responsive to treatment c : RESISTANT <this subject is recalcitrant both to observation and to experiment -- G. G. Simpson>
3 : Martina
synonym see UNRULY
- recalcitrant noun


Okay, okay, I added #3...... Too bad we can't vote a million times for Dornfelder!! Oh, am I being recalcitrant again?!?

[slonaker]

You're just being your typical, audacious self. Which is why we all think so highly of you...

[P Cuthbert]

Tim;

I know how to get the Germans to let loose some of the Dornfelder. Quit buying their Reisling.

You and I both know how well trade tactics like that work right? (Think softwood lumber/ oil)

Pat

[TimApNy]

Ain't enough Dornfelder planted on the planet, I don't think.

Interesting poll! I'll bring a copy of it to the next product development meeting.

Hijack = ON

Are any of these wines imported to the US? I just search the grape type and it sounds like a great wine for me! Any chance vines are available to the US also? Might be a great NY wine.


Hijack = OFF

[MedPretzel]

I bought a Dornfelder recently at my wine-store. 12.99 a bottle but certainly worth it. (Boo hoo, I spent about 4 bucks in Germany for it...)



Martina

[TimApNy]

Thanks
I'll be looking for it


Tim

[ronmar1]

I would love to have a premium kit Of Riesling Spatlese from the Rheingau. Really kind of partial to the Rheingau wines. Just finished a bottle of Shuman Nagler 2002, excellant!!!!!! $15.99 a bottle and well worth it.
IMHO
Ron