February is the shortest month

[Sharon Bowman]

(And I'm the ripoff T.S. Eliot.)

What should I drink this month?

I have glutted myself several days running on natrliche Weine, only Frenchy style (anyone who ain't tasted Pascal Simonutti hain't tasted natchrul wine).

So, if I were to be most unexpected, what upstanding and classic and straightforward good quaff would one suggest?

I'll do this for a bit.

Then I'll post on the results of my foray into the much maligned aligot grape. Clip: retain the malignment, ye all.

 

[Arjun Mendiratta]

Is this for a school project?

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Give that man a see-gar!

 

[Cory Cartwright]

I've been wanting some classic barolo, so do that. Other suggestions won't be as good so disregard them.

 

[MLipton]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

So, if I were to be most unexpected, what upstanding and classic and straightforward good quaff would one suggest?

Hows about searching for some nice, unspoofy '07 claret, winegrrrl? A more Quixotic quest I can hardly imagine.

Mark Lipton

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Bergerac?

 

[Rahsaan]

Clearly you have no other option but Buckfast

 

[VLM]

and eat lots of cassoulet.

 

[MarkS]

Then I'll post on the results of my foray into the much maligned aligot grape.

There's an ez pass...

Since this is the dead of winter, why don't you post on some heart-warming wines like Porto or Banyuls, for your sensitive French palate?

 

[Sharon Bowman]

originally posted by Arjun Mendiratta:
Is this for a school project?

Don't make me delete my post, Arjun.

Or rewrite it with little daisies as dots over the i's.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

Ooh, Barolo... exotic.

Ooh, Bordeaux... what on earth is that?

VLM, you name me a Cahors that won't make me do the classic VLMish gesture of reverse peristalsis onto my own palate, please.

 

[Lee Short]

It's Oyster season! Time for some Muscadet, some Chablis.

It's also Cassoulet season! Time for some Bandol, some Oupia.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

Shall I suggest what is the most obvious, warming and joy-giving thing to drink in dark midwinter. No I shan't. This board doesn't deserve such obvious wisdom.

 

[Yule Kim]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Shall I suggest what is the most obvious, warming and joy-giving thing to drink in dark midwinter. No I shan't. This board doesn't deserve such obvious wisdom.

CdP? I heard Foillard's isn't half bad [jk].

 

[SFJoe]

The Piemonte is a good place to be.

I have opened a bottle of '99 Texier Hermitage, but I think I should have waited.

 

[slaton]

Quite krafty of you, Joe.

 

[Lee Short]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Shall I suggest what is the most obvious, warming and joy-giving thing to drink in dark midwinter. No I shan't. This board doesn't deserve such obvious wisdom.

I'm not sure if you mean Ardbeg or Lagavulin here. Tough call, really.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

I was thinking Roger Groult "Doyen d'Age" or, perhaps...

 

[Sharon Bowman]

Great poster, Jeff.