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Cole Kendall

Cole Kendall
A brief report on a pleasant dinner at a noisier than usual Dino's (is the recession over?) with Bob, Maureen and my two Italian friends both named Marcella from Milan.

2001 Mueller Catoir Scheurebe Haardter Manderling Spaetlese was insanely delicious. Sometimes I wonder why I drink anything else.

2002 Von Simmern Erbacher Marcobrun Spaetlese 2002 was surprisingly similar to me in texture to the M-C. A very nice drink.

1999 Bachelet G-C was very reductive. Even she of the "just give it some time in the glass and it will get better...everyone else has finished theirs and now it's finally gotten really good" eventually gave up.

1995 Limerick Lane Collier Vineyard was another of my cellar clearance efforts. A bottle bought shortly after I moved to DC and stuck in the cellar turned out to be surprisingly drinkable; the youthful exuberance was gone and there was a lot of acidity but not an unpleasant experience.

2006 Les Tesniere (Pineau d'Aunis) was quite pleasant to me but Marcella ended up glugging down the rest of the scheurebe and trying to convince Bob to serve her his bottles of Ben Rye along with Stilton from the jar.

Cole
 
I don't think the bachelet was merely showing signs of reduction as all the back and forth pouring of it should have improved the situation but I think if anything it made it worse. Rather, I suspect, this bottle was showing the bacterial issue Claude identified in the bottle of this wine he had back when it first came in the country. What's interesting to me is that I've had this wine several times, including about 4 months ago, from my cellar and this is the first bottle to have that swampy stink.

The pineau was fine - it was a bit too cool when poured and I didn't have the opportunity to linger over it as I had to rush home to my very ill kittie. And I was eating fish (a very excellent and perfectly cooked piece of Hawaiin swordfish (dean swears the west coast swordfish is much better than the east coast stuff) on a bed of pea shoots sauteed with bits of tomator, olive, and garlic - not all that red wine friendly despite Rahsaan's ability to enjoy red wine with anything) and so more drawn to the whites.
 
(a very excellent and perfectly cooked piece of Hawaiin swordfish (dean swears the west coast swordfish is much better than the east coast stuff) on a bed of pea shoots sauteed with bits of tomator, olive, and garlic - not all that red wine friendly...
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Swordfish is so meaty! And then the olives and tomatoes are perfect red wine food :)

But I guess the MC was a more attractive option.

Sorry to hear about your cat.
 
1995 Limerick Lane Collier Vineyard was another of my cellar clearance efforts. A bottle bought shortly after I moved to DC and stuck in the cellar turned out to be surprisingly drinkable; the youthful exuberance was gone and there was a lot of acidity but not an unpleasant experience.
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Zinfandel, I take it? I had a LL back in the early 90's that was not bad at all, before the onslaught of goopiness later in the decade.
 
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