Old Anjou red drinking well . . .

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Kay Bixler

Kay Bixler
Sometimes it works out with this wine, 1996 Clos de Coulaine Anjou Villages, a lot of them were corked, others were closed so impossibly tight, but this bottle is wonderful. Green in the nose, red in the mouth with a deep tannic, mineral warmth all around. Seamless. There must be some cabernet sauvignon in here. Anyway a beautiful bottle at it's peak and among the best Anjou rouge I've ever enjoyed. Drunk with a hearty chick pea, onion, kale and chorizo stew the tannic wine easily held its ground.

Also, ps: for those who want to get this partita started right, the annual Bach festival commenced today at 3 pm. Stream it here: http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/wkcr/

Happy Christmas everybody!

Best,
Kay
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
originally posted by Yixin:
"Green in the nose, red in the mouth"

That's a lovely phrase.
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The colors of Christmas.
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Coulaine, the green nosed Anjou
Had a deeply tannic mouth
And if you ever drank it
You would be transported south.

All of the other bottles
Used to laugh and call it cheap
They claimed the poor old Anjou
Was either corked or not too deep.

Then one just pre-Christmas day
Bixler came to say
Coulaine with your mouth so red
We'll drink until the bottle's dead.

Then all the other bottles loved him
as they shouted out with glee,
Coulaine, the green nosed Anjou
Got drunk up instead of me!
 
originally posted by Jay Miller:
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
originally posted by Yixin:
"Green in the nose, red in the mouth"

That's a lovely phrase.
Click to expand...

The colors of Christmas.
Click to expand...

Coulaine, the green nosed Anjou
Had a deeply tannic mouth
And if you ever drank it
You would be transported south.

All of the other bottles
Used to laugh and call it cheap
They claimed the poor old Anjou
Was either corked or not too deep.

Then one just pre-Christmas day
Bixler came to say
Coulaine with your mouth so red
We'll drink until the bottle's dead.

Then all the other bottles loved him
as they shouted out with glee,
Coulaine, the green nosed Anjou
Got drunk up instead of me!
Click to expand...
That makes a lot more sense than that Christmas thing Ben Sherwin came up with a couple of years ago.
 
originally posted by Brad Kane:
originally posted by Jay Miller:
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
originally posted by Yixin:
"Green in the nose, red in the mouth"

That's a lovely phrase.
Click to expand...

The colors of Christmas.
Click to expand...

Coulaine, the green nosed Anjou
Had a deeply tannic mouth
And if you ever drank it
You would be transported south.

All of the other bottles
Used to laugh and call it cheap
They claimed the poor old Anjou
Was either corked or not too deep.

Then one just pre-Christmas day
Bixler came to say
Coulaine with your mouth so red
We'll drink until the bottle's dead.

Then all the other bottles loved him
as they shouted out with glee,
Coulaine, the green nosed Anjou
Got drunk up instead of me!
Click to expand...
That makes a lot more sense than that Christmas thing Ben Sherwin came up with a couple of years ago.
Click to expand...
Ah, if only Jay was born earlier, to be a writer of Xmas Carols and a buyer of cheap French Cru.
 
originally posted by Jay Miller:
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
originally posted by Yixin:
"Green in the nose, red in the mouth"

That's a lovely phrase.
Click to expand...

The colors of Christmas.
Click to expand...

Coulaine, the green nosed Anjou
Had a deeply tannic mouth
And if you ever drank it
You would be transported south.

All of the other bottles
Used to laugh and call it cheap
They claimed the poor old Anjou
Was either corked or not too deep.

Then one just pre-Christmas day
Bixler came to say
Coulaine with your mouth so red
We'll drink until the bottle's dead.

Then all the other bottles loved him
as they shouted out with glee,
Coulaine, the green nosed Anjou
Got drunk up instead of me!
Click to expand...

Huzzah and bravo.
 
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