Recent content by kirk wallace

Ah, alas. We need to get back north soon. Been spending all our Italy time in Rome, Naples and Sicily, for the most part. Glad to hear Ratana survives. Hope you are thriving. -K

Manual search proves you correct! May 13, 2020. From the early depths of the pandemic: “Not everyday need be Riesling or rosé day. Chenin comes to the rescue. It is staggeringly delicous. Minerality, salinity and with fruit just ripe enough. Impressive in ‘15.” I must have picked it up at one...

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News to me! I met Thierry Germain (and the Vacheron cousins — they were there celebrating some award Thierry had just received) years ago sitting at the counter at a Paris restaurant, but I’d be surprised if I’ve tried his wines more than 5 or 6 times. I have pleasant, generic memories of them...

Does this count? I first came across it at Oltre, one of my favorite restaurants in Bologna.

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grazie! I will keep an eye out!

I think you explained this a while back -- something about UK saran still being made from polyvinylidene chloride as opposed to the US stuff being polyethylene?

Thanks for letting us know, Mark. It is sad news, but that is also a lovely tribute, Brad. It was my great fortune to get to know Bill in the mid-90s. Later, I was lucky to be among the small band he escorted to his favorite German growers for a week in 2004 (He and the others continued on...

Andrew/Kay Bixler, I think, but I too didn’t attempt the search feature. Sorry to hear about the ‘18 Baudry rosé. Had a bottle of the ‘17 over the last two nights. Perfection for slightly cooler, but also slightly more humid than typical PDX August eves.

LOL. Well, always when in good company, I hope. Thanks for coming out, Otto. Nice notes and very good to see you. I thought those wines were really showing well, although the Bout du Clos is at about my outer limit of oxidative for Champagne. I hadn’t had one in about 4 years and back then...

i agree, generally. And maybe we each have our own breaking point and persuasive ability. For me, if I've tried the talking 2 or 3 times and don't get the sense i'm doing (or receiving) any persuading, I accept the L and just don't show up next time.

I think you've put at least one finger on what some folks (at least me and, if I read him right, O) are getting at: you get to choose your defriending threshold. Jonathan seems to be defending the idea that one might still willingly (or even with mixed emotions) drink or eat with folks who have...

not sure most of us are being specific about Leo any more. i wasn't anyway. I thought we were talking about the notion of one shunning a person that one knows to hold one or more abhorrent views; abhorrent enough to have an impact outside your specific friendship (e.g., he likes yellow shoes v...

Fair distinction. Those who advocate for anti-vaxing may indeed be protected from Government action by the 1st Amendment --assuming they're not found to be advocating for immediate, or imminent intent, to do violence, which, maybe, could be a separate inquiry in the case of speech attempting to...