CWD: what did you drink while traveling?

In Vancouver BC as part of a panel for the trade at the wine festival. Wandering around later, I stumble upon Is It French wine bar, pretty cool place with some tasty Oeufs Mayonnaise and Foie Gras terrine with toasted Pain d'Épices and Quince Preserves.

Alongside it I have a 2022 Pinot Gris "orange" wine from Scout winery in the Okanagan Valley. Orange in quotes, because they got carried away with the method and left it 21 days on the skins - and this must have been some colorful PG to begin with - it looks like a hefty Tavel!

And it tastes, well, quite good. Some bruised apple and cherry fruit plus a hint of smoke in the nose; medium+ body, decent acid, light and distinctly dry tannin, really a gastronomic rose' in the Tavel mode but with different flavors. Not much oxidation. Excellent with the eggs (which were bolstered with anchovy and capers), pleasant with the foie gras but a bit quarrelsome with the pain d'épices and quince preserves.

I have a bunch of notes on Okanagan Valley wines, not exactly a hot topic around here, that I'll try to get to in the near future. A mixed bag but the good ones are very good indeed, some with a unique character.

Hmm, I wanted to post a pic so you could see the remarkable color, but all I got was a URL.
 
WD is rather DIY when it comes to pictures. As a kindly computer professional, please allow me to FIFY:
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originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
WD is rather DIY when it comes to pictures. As a kindly computer professional, please allow me to FIFY:
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Ah, an html pointer (layman's term) was needed. Thanks!

The color was actually a bit more scarlet than what you (or at least I) see in the photo.
 
At O'hare airport at the not so encouraging Publican Tavern, I chanced upon a glass of a Croatian rosé called Fakin Teran Rosé that was suprisingly quaffable. Fakin is "Croatia's most award winning winery" and the light and refreshing wine was well beyond what I imagined I might find.
 
originally posted by Cole Kendall:
At O'hare airport at the not so encouraging Publican Tavern, I chanced upon a glass of a Croatian rosé called Fakin Teran Rosé that was suprisingly quaffable. Fakin is "Croatia's most award winning winery" and the light and refreshing wine was well beyond what I imagined I might find.
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Not so encouraging, Cole? Erstwhile Disorderly Bwood and I had a memorable dinner at the mothership establishment probably a decade or so ago. IIRC, my last bottle of Montevertine was opened that night.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Cole Kendall:
At O'hare airport at the not so encouraging Publican Tavern, I chanced upon a glass of a Croatian rosé called Fakin Teran Rosé that was suprisingly quaffable. Fakin is "Croatia's most award winning winery" and the light and refreshing wine was well beyond what I imagined I might find.
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I am staying at the Red Roof Inn in Hardeeville, SC, this evening on my way back to the NC mountains. And having a Croatian wine I also think is pretty high quality for its $15 price; 2023 Ziatan Otok, Bilo Idro Marina Cuvée. It’s from the island of Hvar and is a blend of local white varieties. Vinum imports.
Mineral driven, quite crisp and very well made.
Unfortunately, no seafood handy so Subway will do.
Rarified atmosphere, yes?
 
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Cole Kendall:
At O'hare airport at the not so encouraging Publican Tavern, I chanced upon a glass of a Croatian rosé called Fakin Teran Rosé that was suprisingly quaffable. Fakin is "Croatia's most award winning winery" and the light and refreshing wine was well beyond what I imagined I might find.
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Not so encouraging, Cole? Erstwhile Disorderly Bwood and I had a memorable dinner at the mothership establishment probably a decade or so ago. IIRC, my last bottle of Montevertine was opened that night.

Mark Lipton
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The airport version appeared more airport restaurant than restaurant. Perhaps the mothership is otherwise.
 
originally posted by Florida Jim:
And having a Croatian wine I also think is pretty high quality for its $15 price; 2023 Ziatan Otok, Bilo Idro Marina Cuvée. It’s from the island of Hvar and is a blend of local white varieties. Vinum imports.
Mineral driven, quite crisp and very well made.
Unfortunately, no seafood handy so Subway will do.
Rarified atmosphere, yes?
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As Myron Cohen said, "everybody's gotta be someplace!" IIRC, this was the punchline of a story about a guy who comes home unexpectedly and finds his wife in bed with a stranger. "What are you doing there?" he sputtered. "Everybody's gotta be someplace!" was the reply.

I may have misremembered. It was also a country song by Del Reeves. Connie Smith covered it, even had a hit. They're probably still playing it on the radio in Hardeeville. Probably AM, keeping it real. The Ziatan Otok sounds interesting, even if only for its name and the curiosity it provokes. Who was Bilo? Or is it the name of a place for on-the-lam oligarchs to park their megayachts far from the prying eyes of the US government who'd confiscate them for the use of our oligarchs?

-Eden (Hardeeville is equidistant from Hilton Head and Savannah, so I reckon the tuna sandwich was probably made from real fish so that maybe woulda gotten you by)(and safe travels!)
 
Notes: Bilo Idro is the name of Zlatan Otok’s breathtaking marina-side restaurant and wine bar, in the little fishing village on the island of Hvar, Sveta Nedilja.

The Marina Cuvee is a fresh, crisp and mineral driven white that is meant to capture the carefree Dalmatian drinking style of sitting dockside at Bilo Idro and enjoying seafood while watching the crystalline Adriatic over the stones. Crisp, refreshing and an undeniably Dalmatian mineral finish!

Enjoy with raw bar, fresh salads, or whatever works, just sipping while laying out near any beautiful body of water.
 
My god, you can read a label in SC from NYC?
Remind me not to annoy you.

Eden,
It’s also equidistant from Gulfport, FL, and Banner Elk, NC - hence my stay.
 
reporting live from the fatschloss after night one of raiding the fatcave with his corpulence himself

no surprise to anyone taking the time to browse these pages for the past year that an old chateauneuf made an appearance - '93 domaine de villeneuve vv served with beautifully executed duck breast w/ green beans and rice in star anise, cardamom, garlic et al that made their way into fatboy's famous reduction.
i am kind of at a loss describing the wine in that i think it's strictly a dinner wine but an excellent one at that
texturally just perfect with the duck, and at 13.5 abv so civilized, as if a more ample version of claret-like verticality

much fizz, shockingly

y'all familar with Lena Sekt (ingelheim) that occasionally graces the shelves at chambers among other places? impeccably made 21 blanc de blancs (2g/l, 80/20 chardonnay/PB) and blanc de noirs (3g/l, 95/5 PN/PM), that you may want to discover for yourselves if you haven't already. tough to think of better non-champagne fizz, anywhere, including my faves such as tripoz and dangin.

very grateful for fatboy's modified binary search algorithm that replaces one's typical cellar inventory, one that resulted in his misplacing a couple of bottles of 2005 philipponnat non-dose royale reserve that he bought in absurd quantities with the intent to drink on a nightly basis during covid lockdown. for sure a grand marque for grower champagne geeks, that is only tertiary in texture and otherwise fresh, rich, complex, dynamic, very long and obviously quite dry, with a couple of extra prongs for citrus lovers.

it seems the whole town is putting on weight, when you walk into a fashion store only to discover a secondary business dealing in Sekt with a cooler in the back.
somehow the proprietor makes it back with us to the fatschloss and unleashes a blind dark-pink and prodigiously earthy fizz on us requesting that we identify the varieties, an exercise we miserably fail at given the blend of chardonnay, welschriesling, and neuburger. very fine mousse.
tech sheet: markus alternburger 2017 "blank. volume iv" dosage:0 disg:11/23 11.5% abv

local drinking here must include sabine koch who is just a few km out of town. i've always liked her wines, but 2022 spatburguner R from tubinger sonnenhalden may be another level. this is from french clones; black-fruited and sufficiently crunchy but also deep, nicely concentrated, long, stony, with hints of forestal earthiness and reduction from stems and barrique.

in case our readers from williamsburg are getting bored at this point, claus preisinger's "bonsai" blaufränkisch at 11.5% and very low sulfur is delicious and definitely for you

last and by no means least, we should all be drinking simone adams (ingelheim). i've tried weissburgunder & pinot previously; '22 lohpfad chardonnay did not disappoint, taking 20-30 minutes to shed most of its reductive notions and to reveal a rather complete wine along the lines of what we deduced was a lost art in meaursault/puligny that was less overtly sweet and woody while more green-fruited, floral/leafy, and perceptibly phenolic. tech sheets confirmed fatboy's suspicion of whole-bunch pressing. 12.5 abv.
 
originally posted by Pavel Tchichikov:

y'all familar with Lena Sekt (ingelheim) that occasionally graces the shelves at chambers among other places? ...tough to think of better non-champagne fizz, anywhere...
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Not familiar but those sound like very promising endorsement words...

originally posted by Pavel Tchichikov:
local drinking here must include sabine koch who is just a few km out of town. i've always liked her wines, but 2022 spatburguner R from tubinger sonnenhalden may be another level. this is from french clones; black-fruited and sufficiently crunchy but also deep, nicely concentrated, long, stony, with hints of forestal earthiness and reduction from stems and barrique.
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Another promising one. I see the prices are extremely reasonable. And this gets imported to the US?
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:

Not familiar but those sound like very promising endorsement words...
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as well as its being a prized item on chambers.nyc list

Another promising one. I see the prices are extremely reasonable. And this gets imported to the US?
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nope
but you of all people should have local access :-)
 
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