I approach the ticket desk with my questions, but am greeted with possibly the only person in all Oslo who doesnt speak very much English. Eventually, she writes some things down on a piece of paper and gestures emphatically. If I understand her correctly and theres reason to suspect that I dont were supposed to get on a different train, get off that train and onto a bus, and then get back on the train that was supposed to take us to Bergen all along.
Um, OK.
We head for the indicated track, and seeing our destination town Asker mentioned the side of an arriving train, we board.
Its not the right train.
continued here. Notes follow:
Benanti 1999 Etna Rosso Rovitello (Sicily) Prominent tannin is just starting to integrate, but this is still a stridently-structured wine in the forepalate, with a good measure of the wines signature ash not exactly bringing the softness. A silky fireplace wine of red fruit in an old oak drawing room, warming and delicious, with fine presence and a texture that grows more appealing as the wine aerates. Though there is a limit: at the end of a few hours sipping, the closed for business shingle is once more hung on the nail, and the wines qualities retreat behind a forbidding pressure door of tannin once again. This could use a longer nap. (9/08)
Anselmi 2005 I Capitelli (Veneto) Light peach cream. Delicate on its feet. Fun. (9/08)
R. Lpez de Heredia Via Tondonia 1981 Rioja Blanco (Center-North) Served too cold, but thats easily resolved, and the wine improves as it rises through the degrees. Wax, old maple furniture, immovable slabs of granite, and gentle hints of old lemon lead to a candle-flame finish. A little subdued vs. other semi-recent tastings, but still nice. (9/08)