Canary in a coal mine

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Sharon Bowman

Sharon Bowman
Are there wines that help you breathe? If you had la grippe porcine, is there a wine you would secret away to your berth in the hospice?

This weekend I sucked in, like big gulps of air, 2004 Ulysse Collin champagne.

I am sure other wines can save our lives from the bland, the arid, the conventional.

Tell me of them, pls.
 
Pepiere Muscadet.
Ogier Cote-Rotie.
Giacosa, Conterno, Borgogno, Mascarello Barolo.
Clape Cornas.
LdH.
Les Cretes.
ESJ syrah.
86 VCC.
Older Mondavi.
Prum, Kerpen auslese.
Bonnes Mares.
Morey-Saint-Denis.
Cuvee Buster.
Old port.
Very old madeira.
Huet fizz.
57 Dom. Dupont.
 
Yesterday evening I had a wine that, well, for me was immediate. And for you I'm sure it would have let you breathe. This was a Vouvray Mousseux from the Vouvray lady. Yes, Catherine Dhoye-Deruet, Domaine de la Fontainerie. It was non-millesime and of a certain age, a certain golden, well-matured age. A treat to find on a restaurant wine list, at a very reasonable price. I'm sure it is sitting forgotten in their cellar, waiting for me to come along.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

86 VCC.
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What a great memory I have of tasting that a provisional assemblage of that wine with Alexandre Thienpont (when we were both substantially younger) on VCC's back porch and spitting it into the garden. Some of it got onto my tie, but the amazing thing about unfinished wine, I learned, is that it doesn't stain! thanks for the memory, Jeff.
 
Truchot
Donnhoff Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Auslese
Krug
Leoville Barton
ESJ Bone Jolly Ros (in case it's summer)
'70 Dow VP
 
CFE at about 15-20 years. (Seriously. I'm not saying this just to needle you.)

But also, Bugey-Cerdon. Does it come in growlers? Kegs? If not, there's a marketing opportunity being lost.

And really, really late-harvest Alsace gewurztraminer. SGNs, and not the weak-assed ones from supermarket producers.

Also, whatever old Huet I can steal from Joe, Don, Brad, etc. I'd be concentrating so hard on the ever-evolving complexities, I wouldn't have time to worry about my grippy pig. Though I might want some rillettes, too.
 
originally posted by Thor:

But also, Bugey-Cerdon. Does it come in growlers? Kegs? If not, there's a marketing opportunity being lost.
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I would so buy a keg of Bugey-Cerdon. Stunningly good idea.

Cheers,

Dave
 
Anything Donnhoff; particularly if it's from Brucke, Kirschheck, Dellchen or Hermannshohle
Anything Selbach-Oster
FX Pichler Smaragds
Wendouree or Henschke reds
Older Lopez de Heredia
 
Depends on my mood and what I've been drinking recently.

I.E. if I've been drinking a lot of German riesling recently, it can seem gulpingly refreshing to have a minerally Champagne or Loire chenin. Or vice versa.
 
I dunno, if what you want is to stimulate breathing, I think that what's called for is something akin to smelling salts: heady, alcoholic, with plenty of VA to wake up the forebrain. In short, a Martinelli Zin should do the trick, or mebbe a mid-'90s Turley, before they got religion and tuned it down a few notches. Mollydooker might make something appropriate, too, but damned if I'm gonna investigate.

Mark Lipton
 
What could be counted upon to reinforce my coping ability? I have to answer the question by thinking of it in this way because once brought down by the flu, and I already know this; I wouldn't be able to taste anything. So, It would be fine, genuine, mature French wine, and for this it would have to be a upper level AOC. There are both reds and whites that could work. But at the top a really fine mature Ros Champagne.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
I.E. if I've been drinking a lot of German riesling recently, it can seem gulpingly refreshing to have a minerally Champagne (snip)
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Replace Champagne with Austrian Riesling/Gruner, and that's been my drinking pattern for the last 6 months.

And on that note I may have to break into an Alzinger soon this week, given that the last couple of weeks have been almost all German Spatlese. Mmm, Loibenberg...
 
originally posted by Salil Benegal:
originally posted by Rahsaan:
I.E. if I've been drinking a lot of German riesling recently, it can seem gulpingly refreshing to have a minerally Champagne (snip)
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Replace Champagne with Austrian Riesling/Gruner, and that's been my drinking pattern for the last 6 months..
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Me too. I just thought it was better the other way as a hypothetical.

I figured people might get tired of hearing the same ole same ole from me.
 
'93 DRC Echezeaux for 175 quid (and '92 RSV for 25 less, both worth drinking)
'77 Fonseca for 25 quid
La Gitana under a tenner
'79 Dr. Loosen Wehlener Sonnenuhr Kabinett for 49 euros

Of the lot it would still be the La Gitana. What a majestic wine.
 
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