TN: Wines last night

[Jeff Grossman]

With the very disorderly Jay Miller, a visiting friend and her daughter, at Soul Flavors: We began with a lovely Brundlmayr 1995. Good sparkle, some rocks and some fruit, Jay said this was SFJoe's wine for Y2K celebration. Vinous high point of the evening.

Neither the Clos du Marquis 1995 St-Julien (from 750 ml) nor the CVNE 1973 Rioja "Imperiale" GR (from 375 ml) showed much of anything. Neither alive nor dead, the red fluids laid there, or swirled there, but, in any event, they fragranced very little and palated less.

We approached the peach cobbler a la mode armed with with Jay's trademark Muller-Catoir 1998 Haardter Mandelring Scheurebe Auslese. Incredibly beautiful nose of frangipani and grapefruit and Old Lady's Handkerchief. When tasted, the acidity has noticeably softened over the years so it was really better to inhale than consume.

Jay, or someone, will help me with the proper restaurant and vineyard names for the Brundlmayr and the M-C, but I am doing this from memory and it's all KonstantinopolIstanbulitanischerdudelsackgesellschaft to me.

 

[Rahsaan]

1973...from 375ml

Recent acquisition for a gambling man?

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by Rahsaan:

1973...from 375ml

Recent acquisition for a gambling man?

Part of Jay's booty from the Kane-Spain haul.

 

[Karen Goetz]

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[Chris Coad]

With the very disorderly Jay Miller, a visiting friend and her daughter, at Soul Food:

Is this "Soul Food" place a kind of "Soul Flavors" copycat?

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Mille grazie, Signore Manatee.

 

[Jay Miller]

Yes it was at Soul Flavors. The Scheurebe was, of course, from Haardter Mandelring. One would think you'd remember that after all the bottles I've opened over the years :). Still a glorious nose but it's definitely slowly coming apart. Much flabbier than even 2 years ago.

My hope was that the '73 Imperiale from 375 would show even better than it did from 750 last week (same source) but instead it showed very little of anything. Ah well.

The Brundlmayer showed even better than the lovely bottle from about 2 weeks ago. We had the same table but the noise level is thankfully much lower on a Tuesday than on a Friday.

 

[Jay Miller]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

Jay, or someone, will help me with the proper restaurant and vineyard names for the Brundlmayr and the M-C, but I am doing this from memory and it's all Konstantinopolitanischerdudelsackgesellschaft to me.

Ah, I remember when it was all Istanbulitanischerdudelsackgesellschaft to you. Long time gone...

 

[Jeff Grossman]

And OldNewAmsterdamitanischerdudelsackgesellschaft before that.