Nice wine

I once saw a bottle of "Benitoite wine" from California with a nice specimen on the label. I do not have a photo or any information on the vinyard. Pretty sure it was a small run.

Since Ice is a mineral to: iceberg Vodka :)

"Amethyst-Sekt" - Sparkling wine from Maissau, Lower Austria.
"THE" Amethyst village!
[www.amethystwelt.at]

A friend of mine owns a vineyard in California, they make fantastic wines all of which are named after minerals. The specimens used for their labels are all from their personal collection. Enjoy!

[www.coghlanvineyard.com]

How about the range of Stone Hammer beers (pilsener to stout) from the F&M craft brewery in Guelph, Ontario?

Stone Hammer was one of the beers on offer at the 11th International Platinum Symposium in Sudbury in 2010.

The company also brews a Nickel Brook Ale.

Benitoite wine: [mineral-wines.com]. I have no connection; just wanted to follow up on Michael Cline's recollection and tried Google.

I have a couple of beers with minerals and miners from Bohemia:

The first is here - Granát - as Garnet - this one from Budweiss has the best etiquette.... otherwise there is at least 10 beers with name Granát (Garnet) in Czech republic (because of red color and favourite Czech gem stone pyrope) ...




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In Dutch the word for Garnet is the same as the word for Grenade (Granaat),
so talking about looking for garnets with friends in a bar can result in some very confused people :)

Hello friends of a nice wine,

here is another one. I hope nobody will suffer a plumbism.

Cheers
Joachim

Somebody wrote an article in Lapis a few years back with illustration of wine labels with mineralogical themes. Last year we had several
bottles of an excellent Italian wine called Aragonite with an aragonite collector friend, but I did not keep the label. Of course in the US everybody knows the cheap Australian wines labelled Black Opal. I am still waiting for somebody to name a wine Eudialyte. I did have quite a few bottles of Domaine Saint-Hilaire when it was avilable in Ontario, but I have not seen it lately.

Does anybody collect crystals growing on wine corks? We have been doing that for about 30 years and have quite a collection.

>Does anybody collect crystals growing on wine corks?<

No, but I have quite few that are moldy (that's mouldy, to you brits).

Any mycologists in the group?

This is one of the greatest sauvignons of the world

Made by a great person

Didier Dagueneau

Thanks all for the mouth-watering input
Here's Chateau Roubine (Chateau Ruby), bought a box the other day. Very nice wine, very nice label lay-out!!

Interesting that you mentioned the Rolling Rock Beer. Back in 1971 a friend of mine and myself left Concord,NC to go to the Franklin, NC show via South Carolina. (This is before Interstate 40 was completed.) On the way back we had a blow out and took out two reflectors on the side of the highway. Within minutes a South Carolina Cop who looked like an extra from the movie Cool Hand Luke -Complete with mirrored sunglasses asked us what we were doing on the side of the road. I carefully tried not to state the obvious. Then he noticed the Rolling Rock Club sticker on our rear window (Some of you old timers probably remember the Rolling Rock Club. It was an attempt to have a national club with no real rules and no membership requirements. The meetings were usually held at rock shows throughout the country. More fun that decorum. With all due respect this reject from the Dukes of Hazard movie shades of Boss Hawg could not wrap his head around the fact that we were not drinking that old Rolling Rock Beer. When we explained to him that we were rock collectors and this was a club of people who liked to collect rocks he muttered something to the effect that that was the stupidest damn thing he had ever heard of and left us to change our tire. I feel sure he went back to the station house and had a good time telling his fellow officers about those strange non beer drinking fools that collect rocks. I am glad I didn't tell him "What we have here is a failure to communicate."