Recent content by Sharon Bowman

It is such a treat to have you here, Steve.

And here we are debating about the Oxford comma.

Racy + Chassagne = wut?

Oh, I've so wanted to go to that restaurant, but every time I've been to Chicago it's been on relatively short notice and there were no reservations to be had.

It is such a delight to read you, and I agree with the sentiments on Bea, as well as on the small chainlet of Maison Keyser USA. There's one adjacent to my work, and its quiche fulfills a strangely missing need.

This is possibly the best thread on WD in some time. By the way, that '01 Bassetti is a killer.

Was you ever bit by a dead bee?

I see chickens eating a carrot.

Thank god it was only a half-bottle.

A lurker writes to inform me that there is as much as 25% new oak on Clos Floridène (though generally ca. 15%), and that it is raised in old oak. Interesting, because it seemed much more "digeste" than that would indicate. Or maybe the other white Bordeaux I've had have just been really...

2004 LdH? ETA: And holy shit, who knew the Hamptons-based Wölffer Estate had a South American concern?

Paging Kirk Wallace...

Yesterday, I met the esteemed Mister Coad at a local watering hole for some wine. Surprising me right off the bat, he expressed a yen for a light red. To start! So start we did, with: 2013 Occhipinti Il Frappato - Bingo. This did the trick. A lovely wine. A little bit hard, a little bit tart...

Which? And wow, still torn up? How's the weather? I'm still a week and a half out, but wonder what to expect.

My friend Hal, who doesn't speak French, once watched an interview with Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre and said it was fantastic, because it sounded just like "The Sabre Dance." This reads, tonally, a bit like that.