Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Congrats! What wine store did you move next to?
CWD: What did you drink last night (or whenever)?
- Thread starter Jayson Cohen
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Jayson Cohen
Jayson Cohen
I can’t find my screw pulls! They were all packed still and the boxes are everywhere in the new place. So I’m dry until I find them. It’s good motivation to unpack.
Jayson Cohen
Jayson Cohen
See for yourself:
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
OMG, someone overnight a waiter's friend to this man!
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
That's an, um, er, eclectic assortment ya got there.originally posted by Jayson Cohen:
See for yourself:
Manhattan Valley Wines doesn't seem to have an online shop, just photos.
Quality One, Riverside, Adel Wines, Martin Brothers, and Cork & Barrel are all using the same software(!), though the selections vary quite a bit: Riverside sells "Fritz De Katz" Riesling while Martin Brothers sells Diel, Urbanshof, Hexamer.
Can't make heads or tails out of Cathedral Wines: no site of their own, their Yelp page refers to how they don't have bullet-proof glass and service ratings have plummeted since 2020.
Grape Collective looks real enough but they call their stores "experiential" and it took some hunting around to actually find the online catalog.
Fun to explore.
(I also see lots of restaurants around your new place.)
Pavel Tchichikov
Pavel Tchichikov
originally posted by Jayson Cohen:
See for yourself:
a story about International, at the top of your map. Dropped by to get whisky for cooking, more precisely for pouring over a sauce on a skillet and lighting with a match, as a recipe had instructed. When asked what kind I'd like, I said just give me the cheapest, explaining the purpose. The man gave me one of those miniature flasks they have behind the counter. It would not light, after repeated attempts.
however, being what i am and where from, i was compelled to find humor in the situation and recalled Woody Allen's Love and Death: "We have to burn the food so the French don't get it. But it's tough to light borscht."
georg lauer
georg lauer
I can imagine. I stumbled upon a case of 2014 Schilfsandstein in our cellar recently and it is in a beautiful spot. If I remember correctly this was 10 Euro at the winery at the time, incredible value.
Larry Stein
Larry Stein
Yup, same here. Other than Cavarodes and Duplessis, it's a bottle or two of various things from Debize, A La Tache, Saumon, and a few Jura producers. Even then, my purchases of 2017 and 2019 Duplessis were from other sources.
Jayson Cohen
Jayson Cohen
Eric’s 2016 Pergaud Brézème has blown me away this week. Uniquely profound. I may need more. Jeff, I should not have split that six pack with you. Should have kept it all to myself. :)
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
I know a deal when I see it. Thanks for the heads up. (I recently tried a bottle I got from another source and it, too, was terrif.)originally posted by Jayson Cohen:
Eric’s 2016 Pergaud Brézème has blown me away this week. Uniquely profound. I may need more. Jeff, I should not have split that six pack with you. Should have kept it all to myself. :)
Larry Stein
Larry Stein
I recently picked up a couple of bottles each of that and ‘16 Pergaud Serine from WineBid. $25 and $30, respectively, seemed like pretty fair prices.
Jayson Cohen
Jayson Cohen
Another bottle of my favorite Italian white, Tiberio Trebbiano, here the 2021, killed it tonight with Varese-style pizzas and (corrected:)Tagliolini al Pesto! This version is more complete IMO than 2020 was, an extra gear. The food was ordered in from a relatively new Italian restaurant near our new apartment called Bosino. We now know about two delicious Italian places within 3 blocks of us that are worth regular visits.
Tristan Welles
Tristan Welles
Pizza Amériques? Peut-être?
Jayson Cohen
Jayson Cohen
You are so right. The restaurant menu had a typo and I perpetuated it through my lazy cut-and-paste copying.
I think this pizza is probably best described as Varese-style, although I was taking some license given that’s not a thing, because that is the origins of the family who runs the restaurant in NY and the family’s original restaurant in Varese. But I’d describe the pizza as sort of a cross between Neapolitan and Roman because of the crust and cheese texture and how it cooked. Maybe slightly closer to the former. It was excellent. And I am not a huge fan of Neapolitan pizza or its rise in prevalence and popularity in NY. If only we had a really good purest Roman pizza place. Does anyone know one?
Claude Kolm
Claude Kolm
Maybe instead of naming it after the province, they named it after the composer, à la tournedos Rossini? ;-)
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Do you mean pizza tondo -- small, round, crisp crust -- or pizza al taglio -- made on a baking sheet, somewhat focaccia like, sold by the etto?