Recent content by robert ames

provence?

the way this discussion keeps going around and around and bobbing back up, it has me thinking of the bunch a cave men trying to figure out how a cell phone works.

not that this is relevant to what is going on now, but back in the early 2000's Costco at that point was the single largest seller of first and second growth Bordeaux in the USA. I still have one bottle of 1999 Chateau Palmer that I paid $66 at the time.

most challenges are characteristic, eh?

most challenges are characteristic, eh?

i'm doing my best with a hirtzberger grauburgunder smaragd 2022, and it's all very pleasing and high quality, but it could shout pinot gris little more forcefully.

even in Italy that's only a little over 4 cases in a year per person.

it's behind a paywall. do youse guys pay up?

hi mark: ah, it must be that he no longer makes it for the export/u.s. market. kermit doesn't list it in the foillard that he purveys, and I remember be told the year that it would not longer be offered that the fruit would go to beaujolais villages.

so it's back, eh? a few years back he stopped making nouveau and used the fruit to make Beaujolais Villages instead.

small and briny.

as a restaurant employee working the floor as the wine guy, I don't know how many times i've had a distraught server come to me to fix things because the cork had busted off with still some in the neck. in these instances, occasionally it would have more appropriate to use a ah-so, but nearly...

where's the Bronx cheer?

one of the things that i enjoy about washed rind cheeses is the ephemeral crunch that's created in the rind.

I'm not defending, i'm commenting. what humans eat and what they don't eat is not rational. if I were in Korea i would not eat dog meat, where it is priced as a delicacy. in peru, (I think it is), I would not eat guinea pig. etc, and then there's the 'gene' thing. for example, depending...