Arrivaderci, CA!
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Larry Stein
Larry Stein
The Disorderly response is don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
It was great to connect while you were in the area!
It was great to connect while you were in the area!
Florida Jim
Florida Jim
Where to?
To commemorate our departure for points eastward, we opened a few wines with my cousin and his wife while eating Dungeness crab and sourdough, something of a family tradition.
NV Jacques Lassaigne Les Vignes de Montgueux BdB Extra Brut was a great start to the meal and a good pairing with our potato pavé with crab meat appetizer. Mineral, crisp with bright citrusy fruit and a minimal amount of toast and a very suave mousse, it was a crowd pleaser.
NV Pierre Peters Cuvée de Resérve BdB Extra Brut was an interesting contrast: more toasty and slightly less racy, it seemed a tad clumsy in comparison to the Lassaigne.
My cousins wife mentioned that her father, a Rutgers prof, was a compulsive buyer from Rimmerman who keeps sending them cases of Champagne and Italian wines such that they’re sick of both. First world problems indeed.
With our main course, I opened a 2017 Huet CdB Sec that I’d brought out for the Huet-a-thon (sad trombone). It was in fine fettle, still racy and lithe with a ton of minerality and abounding with pear/quince fruit. Both my cousin and his wife were over the moon with it; Jean, sadly, wasn’t so taken with it.
Since we were returning with more wine than our two shippers would hold, we had to sacrifice yet another bottle. In this case, it was the 2011 Baudry La Croix Boissee which was showing magnificently. Dark fruit, leather, earth and a hint of pencil lead. Silky, yet structured for the long haul. Drink and hold, as they say.
Mark Lipton
NV Jacques Lassaigne Les Vignes de Montgueux BdB Extra Brut was a great start to the meal and a good pairing with our potato pavé with crab meat appetizer. Mineral, crisp with bright citrusy fruit and a minimal amount of toast and a very suave mousse, it was a crowd pleaser.
NV Pierre Peters Cuvée de Resérve BdB Extra Brut was an interesting contrast: more toasty and slightly less racy, it seemed a tad clumsy in comparison to the Lassaigne.
My cousins wife mentioned that her father, a Rutgers prof, was a compulsive buyer from Rimmerman who keeps sending them cases of Champagne and Italian wines such that they’re sick of both. First world problems indeed.
With our main course, I opened a 2017 Huet CdB Sec that I’d brought out for the Huet-a-thon (sad trombone). It was in fine fettle, still racy and lithe with a ton of minerality and abounding with pear/quince fruit. Both my cousin and his wife were over the moon with it; Jean, sadly, wasn’t so taken with it.
Since we were returning with more wine than our two shippers would hold, we had to sacrifice yet another bottle. In this case, it was the 2011 Baudry La Croix Boissee which was showing magnificently. Dark fruit, leather, earth and a hint of pencil lead. Silky, yet structured for the long haul. Drink and hold, as they say.
Mark Lipton
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Post an offering. I'm sure we can relieve them of some of their White Wine's Burden.
Not sacrificed! You got to enjoy it.
Pavel Tchichikov
Pavel Tchichikov
what a nice set of wines and notes.
I was rather taken with, of all things, 2011 les granges on its tenth anniversary.
Montgueux goes a step beyond citrus as a rule, with a touch of pineapple, no?
There is some schadenfreude in play here, with your other sparkling beverage.
Hey, there is always a good Albarino out there for Jean.
I was rather taken with, of all things, 2011 les granges on its tenth anniversary.
Montgueux goes a step beyond citrus as a rule, with a touch of pineapple, no?
There is some schadenfreude in play here, with your other sparkling beverage.
Hey, there is always a good Albarino out there for Jean.
Cole Kendall
Cole Kendall
It wouldn't be disorderly if one did not point out that it's arrivederci, but maybe things are different on the west coast. Make sure not to make that mistake in Italy!
Good catch, Cole. My problem with Italian is that, contrary to what others have told me, my knowledge of Spanish and faint knowledge of French do little to help with spoken Italian. I can read somewhat and know how to pronounce the phonemes, but vocabulary largely escapes me.
Mark Lipton
Cole Kendall
Cole Kendall
There are many easy to see latin (and greek) roots in Italian nouns; rivedere, the central element of arrivederci is too see again, related to French revoir, as in "au revoir". But there are weird particles that make the simple latin bits hard to entangle, like the leading ar and the final ci.
Most of the problem in actually speaking the language is figuring out the basic latinate roots and then trying not to screw up all the odd articles (il i lo gli la le l' etc.) and fitting them in with the inflected verbs.
Most of the problem in actually speaking the language is figuring out the basic latinate roots and then trying not to screw up all the odd articles (il i lo gli la le l' etc.) and fitting them in with the inflected verbs.
I can’t say that I got any tropical notes in the Lassaigne, though it was certainly ripe. And, yup, Jean will go for an Albarino over Chenin any time, though two of her fairly infrequent “we’ve gotta get more of this” exclamations were occasioned by very young dry Chenin (‘05 Chidaine Argiles and a Pinon Silex Noir).
Mark Lipton