Francophile Pie Franco Dinner, Feb. 17th
- Thread starter Levi Dalton
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Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
Brought back from Portugal a 1995 Colares Chitas from the cellar of Antonio Bernardino Paulo da Silva and a 1996 Luis Pato Quinta do Ribeirinho P Franco from the cellar of Luis Pato. If you play your cards right, I'll bring both.
scottreiner
scott reiner
ooh baby!
Keith Levenberg
Keith Levenberg
Nice. Both Colares and the Pato Pe Franco are on my bucket list.
Levi Dalton
Levi Dalton
Might the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 17th be okay with folks?
Jay Miller
Jay Miller
Well, I can't make that week but I was just going to sponge wine from Keith anyway.
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Ash Wednesday? Sure!
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
Ash Wednesday would work great (note to self smudged on forehead).
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
I'm sure Levi can have extra napkins ready.
Kevin Roberts
Kevin Roberts
No issues with sandy soil, they must be phylloxera-proof. Now to find palm trees on American rootstocks, there's a challenge.
Cheers,
Kevin
scottreiner
scott reiner
disney world...
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
Possible subtitles for Pie-a-thon:
Francly, I give a damn
Cte de Pie
Rooting for Self
How can you call the wine natural if the vine is grafted?
Francly, I give a damn
Cte de Pie
Rooting for Self
How can you call the wine natural if the vine is grafted?
Levi Dalton
Levi Dalton
The Francophile Pie Franco dinner will be Wednesday, the 17th of Feb.
I apologize to anyone who can't make it on that date. I will find some other way of making it up to you.
We will keep it small, so that a bottle or two of a wine can make it around the room.
We will serve you a bunch of food.
We will encourage you to bring a bottle of Pie Franco to share with other people by charging you a whole lot more to come if you dine bottleless. If you bring a bottle, $95/head. No bottle, $150/same number of heads (1).
We will open a bunch of Pie Franco from Southern Italy. Please direct your attentions to bringing items not from Southern Italy. Personally, I would be excited if people brought along the instructional offering. Like, here is the same producer, same grape type, nearby vineyards, same vintage, one ungrafted vines bottle, one grafted vines bottle. Or here are multiple examples of the same ungrafted vine vino from different years. Then people can really wrap their mind around things. Also, it is with advanced vine age that the Pie Franco really shows through in the finished wine, me thinks. So with that in mind, it would be nice if folks brought old-vine Pie Franco rather than young ungrafted vine juice. But whatever you want to bring is cool with me. I like to try Pie. You like to try Pie, so it's all good.
In the efforts of making the event run smoothly, with accurate notes and such, it would be nice if you dropped off your bottle contribution(s) at a date ahead of the event. Then I can type up pretty and helpful notes for you.
It will be the last wine dinner for me at the 'viv, as I am switching venues in March.
212-599-5045 during business hours EST to reserve. Please do reserve, so we can plan things on this side.
I'll post up a menu soon.
Everyone is over Cornelissen, yadda, yadda, but there will be plenty of Magma to go around.
7:30pm Francophile start time.
Trust me it will be fun.
I apologize to anyone who can't make it on that date. I will find some other way of making it up to you.
We will keep it small, so that a bottle or two of a wine can make it around the room.
We will serve you a bunch of food.
We will encourage you to bring a bottle of Pie Franco to share with other people by charging you a whole lot more to come if you dine bottleless. If you bring a bottle, $95/head. No bottle, $150/same number of heads (1).
We will open a bunch of Pie Franco from Southern Italy. Please direct your attentions to bringing items not from Southern Italy. Personally, I would be excited if people brought along the instructional offering. Like, here is the same producer, same grape type, nearby vineyards, same vintage, one ungrafted vines bottle, one grafted vines bottle. Or here are multiple examples of the same ungrafted vine vino from different years. Then people can really wrap their mind around things. Also, it is with advanced vine age that the Pie Franco really shows through in the finished wine, me thinks. So with that in mind, it would be nice if folks brought old-vine Pie Franco rather than young ungrafted vine juice. But whatever you want to bring is cool with me. I like to try Pie. You like to try Pie, so it's all good.
In the efforts of making the event run smoothly, with accurate notes and such, it would be nice if you dropped off your bottle contribution(s) at a date ahead of the event. Then I can type up pretty and helpful notes for you.
It will be the last wine dinner for me at the 'viv, as I am switching venues in March.
212-599-5045 during business hours EST to reserve. Please do reserve, so we can plan things on this side.
I'll post up a menu soon.
Everyone is over Cornelissen, yadda, yadda, but there will be plenty of Magma to go around.
7:30pm Francophile start time.
Trust me it will be fun.
