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Kay Bixler

Kay Bixler
A birthday dinner provided the opportunity to do something I've been threatening to do for nearly two years: grill lobster. We split them in half and grilled with butter, shallot, thyme and lemon zest. A real treat!

Special occasion so we dig deep in the cellar and find 1996 Bernard Morey Saint-Aubin En Remilly 1er Cru. Still green and young! Beautiful balance, lots of acidity, lots of oak and tannin. With a bite of lobster and potato all is well.

The big birthday surprise though is 1997 Pierre-Bise Anjou Le Haute de La Garde. It is dense wine. Molten. But also light, crisp and precise. A wash of alcohol with perfectly delineated flavors. Endless finish. Amazing. I had written this one off years ago.

Best,
Kay
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:

The big birthday surprise though is 1997 Pierre-Bise Anjou Le Haute de La Garde. It is dense wine. Molten. But also light, crisp and precise. A wash of alcohol with perfectly delineated flavors. Endless finish. Amazing. I had written this one off years ago.
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That is amazing. Glad to hear it.

But the Burg was better with the lobster?
 
Hm. I have some B. Morey "Caillerets" lying down. Maybe I should go spelunking to find it...?

Anyway, lovely notes, Kay! Sounds like you had fun.
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:

The big birthday surprise though is 1997 Pierre-Bise Anjou Le Haute de La Garde. It is dense wine. Molten. But also light, crisp and precise. A wash of alcohol with perfectly delineated flavors. Endless finish. Amazing. I had written this one off years ago.
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Kay,

Some local disorderlies drank this to general approval last summer on Maureen's porch. Before the bee-sting era. I'va always been partial to it. Others have tsk-tsk'ed the high alcohol. I just think of it as ordering a double. The performance of this wine has always given me hope that the general dismissal of the same vintage Savennieres by some of the cognoscenti around here may be premature. (Disclosure: blatant self-interest. I still have a half-case of the Savennieres sleeping in storage.)
 
Rahsaan, yes the Burgundy was the perfect match for the smokey lobster.

Jeff, I felt this bottle was still quite young but can't speak as to the Caillerets.

Jim, not my birthday (next month, and I need warm socks) but will pass along the well wishes.

Bob, yeah, the alcohol is quite high but that's where all the stuffing is. It was a revelation. Papin 3:16. I don't know about the Savennieres, it was great young so I still have hope. Maybe a few more years? Decades? Centuries? Maybe never.
 
Some local disorderlies drank this to general approval last summer on Maureen's porch. Before the bee-sting era.
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Sadly, I can recall nothing before the bee-sting era. Perhaps it was all the drugs, but the Anjou did not register.
 
It's true. And if pre-mox had been invented five years ago I would have tagged the Pierre-Bise as a poster child for the affliction. Now look at it. Alive and well.
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Bob, yeah, the alcohol is quite high but that's where all the stuffing is. It was a revelation. Papin 3:16. I don't know about the Savennieres, it was great young so I still have hope. Maybe a few more years? Decades? Centuries? Maybe never.
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Yeah.

My sleeping bottles are probably sleeping with the fishes.
 
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