Francophile Pie Franco Dinner, Feb. 17th

When I was allowed to go, I forced Thor to post his notes right away.
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Nonsense. You barely said five words to me. You were too busy schmoozing Asimov, begging for more inches.

Um, columnar, I mean.

(Wait, that didn't help either.)
 
I'm really jealous, looks like it was a good time. This hurts extra for me, as it was the pursuit of Franc de Pied (Breton, perhaps from a Peter Leim W&S article) that first led me into Chambers St. and in a long, roundabout way to here. I've had a hell of a lot of good wine along the way, but it was Franc de Pied that led me here.

Cheers,

Kevin
 
originally posted by Thor:
When I was allowed to go, I forced Thor to post his notes right away.
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Nonsense. You barely said five words to me. You were too busy schmoozing Asimov, begging for more inches.

Um, columnar, I mean.

(Wait, that didn't help either.)
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That's only because he's taller and more intelligent than you.
 
originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
originally posted by VLM:
How did the Chinon show? You and I have different views on the merits of aging these wines, although we both like them very much.
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Fantastic, best flight of the night IMO with the 2002 Baudry the highlight, which was an instant wow wine. Lafite-like. I think it'll be even better with a little more time for the remaining tannin to melt away. The 2003 showed much more primary than the bottles I have, very rich fruit.
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2002 is an almost perfect vintage for my palate.

As you know, I don't cellar the Franc de Pied but drink through it as it comes through town.

My brother had the delicious 2006 by the glass for a while. Stupid rednecks customers didn't know how good they had it.
 
originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
originally posted by VLM:
How did the Chinon show? You and I have different views on the merits of aging these wines, although we both like them very much.
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Fantastic, best flight of the night IMO with the 2002 Baudry the highlight, which was an instant wow wine. Lafite-like. I think it'll be even better with a little more time for the remaining tannin to melt away. The 2003 showed much more primary than the bottles I have, very rich fruit.
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The '05 Baudry was the winner at our table. Beautiful wine. I was disappointed with how the Joguet showed. Tight as nails. A bottle I had a few months ago was much more open and stellar.
 
originally posted by Brad Kane:
originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
originally posted by VLM:
How did the Chinon show? You and I have different views on the merits of aging these wines, although we both like them very much.
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Fantastic, best flight of the night IMO with the 2002 Baudry the highlight, which was an instant wow wine. Lafite-like. I think it'll be even better with a little more time for the remaining tannin to melt away. The 2003 showed much more primary than the bottles I have, very rich fruit.
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The '05 Baudry was the winner at our table. Beautiful wine. I was disappointed with how the Joguet showed. Tight as nails. A bottle I had a few months ago was much more open and stellar.
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My experience with that Joguet bottling was that it was not as broad in it's profile, even when open. I did not re-purchase, although it is good wine, I have enough 2005 Loire cabernet franc in the cellar.
 
"I used to think all the letters in your magazine were fake, but one night in the wine shop..."
Vulgar Little Monkey
 
originally posted by VLM:
He set me up with his cousin. 5'8" curvaceous redhead neurosurgeon.
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I hope that winegrrl doesn't let the twins read this sort of thing. Just look what happened to Tiger.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Feast in the House of Levy
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Paolo Veronese, 1573, Accademia, Venice
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Great painting...fabulously huge too. (Nice one, again, Oswaldo.)

Maybe the original title works just as well...."Last Supper" (at Convivio?)
 
originally posted by Joel Stewart:
Maybe the original title works just as well...."Last Supper" (at Convivio?)
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Indeed! Though "last" here is less "last" than usual because Levi is making a lateral move within the same organization from Convivio to Alto, from southern to northern, from rustic to fine.

Oswaldo (an Edenic sign off: I wrote lateral when surely he's moving up, but I didn't want to equate north or fine with up and south or rustic with down. North is not even truly up, latitudinally speaking, if one remembers that early cartographers, being eurocentric, put the northen hemisphere on top when it could just as easily have been on the bottom. But bottoms get bum raps. Eurocentric cartographers preferred to be on top, as did missionaries.)

PS: amazing, isn't it, that Veronese got away with just changing the title and nothing else.
 
The recorded exchanges between V and the Inquisition interrogaters regarding that painting are pretty hilarious in the way he toys with them. He had considerable audacity. The artist himself is somewhere in that painting too, isn't he? It's too small here for me to tell where though...I've forgotten. Maybe behind the man in black on the left?
 
originally posted by Joel Stewart:
The artist himself is somewhere in that painting too, isn't he? It's too small here for me to tell where though...I've forgotten. Maybe behind the man in black on the left?
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Yes, that's him, standing between Jeff and Salil, saying it really should be "son gout a chacun."
 
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