NYT: Asimov on the Jura

I love the Jura and all its weird little wines. I'm particularly enamored with the wines of Jacques Puffeney, but perhaps because they are the first Jura wines that caught my attention. His "Berangeres" Trousseau is one of my favorite wines, followed closely by his Poulsard. The wines are a little hard to find in my neck of the woods, but thanks to a couple of restaurants and wine shops that support the region, the local distributers are willing to bring in a few cases here and there.

On that note, anyone try Berthet-Bondet?
 
originally posted by jack hott:
On that note, anyone try Berthet-Bondet?
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Yes.

I've had good experiences with them. Not too painfully 'traditional' but not at all modern. But I've only had a few bottles. Maybe others have more detailed experience.
 
"Minetta Tavern in Greenwich Village serves dry-aged steaks that are among the best in New York..."

It must be the steam cooking technique they use.
 
originally posted by Marc D:
"Minetta Tavern in Greenwich Village serves dry-aged steaks that are among the best in New York..."

It must be the steam cooking technique they use.
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Silly, sous-voile transmorgifies as "under steam."
Best, Jim
 
originally posted by MLipton:
NYT: Asimov on the JuraWith a nod toward the Minetta Tavern, no less.

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Mark Lipton
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Sigh, it's not like the old Minetta Taven.

Far, far better, I'll admit, but not like the old place.
 
eric is probably the only mainstream media wine writer i like to read...i just wish his readership wasn't so large...(and that he'd spend more time on, say, argentina...)
 
originally posted by Cory Cartwright:
wait until he writes up fernet
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Fernet has been outta the bag for years. College kids do shots of it in Reno.

There is a drink at a bar in Reno called the Vandergrift where you drop a shot of Fernet in a Boddington's. A transmogrified Irish Car Bomb (98 points).
 
Unlike Chris, I can't explain a joke so that it is funnier than it was, but I believe that the wish that Asimov write about Argentina was a wish that he wouldn't publicize hipster cult wines like Puffeny's to the uninitiated masses but lay before them only the big fruit bombs of which they are unworthily worthy. Of course, if Asimov did this, he would no longer be the one popular writer this poster liked but just another member of the hoi polloi. Unless he really is just another member of the hoi polloi and Jura wines are now the ones favored by the unwashed masses, and we have all become them.

Arise ye prisoners of fruit bombs.
 
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Cory Cartwright:
wait until he writes up fernet
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Fernet has been outta the bag for years. College kids do shots of it in Reno.

There is a drink at a bar in Reno called the Vandergrift where you drop a shot of Fernet in a Boddington's. A transmogrified Irish Car Bomb (98 points).
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Of course most people write about Fernet like there was just one.

And of course there are several.

Tell me, do they use da Peloni Fernet in Reno? Or is it Luxardo?
 
Headed there on Thursday and excited!
seeing a kick ass trio,
as far as I'm concerned that's a great way to celebrate the new year.
 
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