SteveTimko
Steve Timko
A foodie friend fluent in both Mandarin and Cantonese arranged for a dinner with me at Sunny Shanghai in San Bruno. Larry Stein was nice enough to join us.
The food was very good. It included, from left to right starting at the top: Deep fried pork intestines, stinky tofu, Shanghai duck, soup dumplings (xlb), chicken in fish sauce and A choi.
The chitlins were awesome. Soft and flavorful. The stinky tofu was aptly named. It wasn't fragrant enough to waft across the room, but when you got it near your nose you got a good dose of it. It's the kind of food you have to eat one and then the rest are okay. I liked the Shanghai duck a lot more than Larry.
The wines were pretty nice, too. It included a 1993 Muscadet I originally intended for an offline for Jay Miller in Reno. It turned out to be a pretty good bottle of wine. I like rounded Muscadet quite a bit. I guess the question is, how long must Muscadet age before it loses that jagged acidity?
1993 Domaine de la Louvetrie (Landron & Fils) Muscadet de Svre-et-Maine Sur Lie Le Fief du Breil - France, Loire Valley, Pays Nantais, Muscadet de Svre-et-Maine (3/11/2010)
This was nice and quite a bit different than other Muscadets I've had. Its age is betrayed by the honey color of the wine. There's still a tanginess to the wine, but it is quite rounded, which Larry notes is to be expected with a 17-year-old wine. On the nose, I get lemon drops and some other candy. On the palate I get some minerality but more lime than lemon. Good finish but no as long as the Franken Silvaner that accompanied it. Aged Muscadet rocks.
2007 Brgerspital zum hl. Geist Wrzburger Abtsleite Silvaner trocken - Germany, Franken (3/1/2010)
Ah yes, this is the stuff. After several misfires chasing after another good Franken Silvaner, I finally found one with this wine. All the good adjectives apply here. Crisp. Pure. Focused. Minerally. Balanced. The flavors are yellow apple and some spices I can't quite pin down. Maybe a flourish of honey on the finish. Good finish. The wine is both rich and lean. I like this a lot.
The food was very good. It included, from left to right starting at the top: Deep fried pork intestines, stinky tofu, Shanghai duck, soup dumplings (xlb), chicken in fish sauce and A choi.
The chitlins were awesome. Soft and flavorful. The stinky tofu was aptly named. It wasn't fragrant enough to waft across the room, but when you got it near your nose you got a good dose of it. It's the kind of food you have to eat one and then the rest are okay. I liked the Shanghai duck a lot more than Larry.
The wines were pretty nice, too. It included a 1993 Muscadet I originally intended for an offline for Jay Miller in Reno. It turned out to be a pretty good bottle of wine. I like rounded Muscadet quite a bit. I guess the question is, how long must Muscadet age before it loses that jagged acidity?
1993 Domaine de la Louvetrie (Landron & Fils) Muscadet de Svre-et-Maine Sur Lie Le Fief du Breil - France, Loire Valley, Pays Nantais, Muscadet de Svre-et-Maine (3/11/2010)
This was nice and quite a bit different than other Muscadets I've had. Its age is betrayed by the honey color of the wine. There's still a tanginess to the wine, but it is quite rounded, which Larry notes is to be expected with a 17-year-old wine. On the nose, I get lemon drops and some other candy. On the palate I get some minerality but more lime than lemon. Good finish but no as long as the Franken Silvaner that accompanied it. Aged Muscadet rocks.
2007 Brgerspital zum hl. Geist Wrzburger Abtsleite Silvaner trocken - Germany, Franken (3/1/2010)
Ah yes, this is the stuff. After several misfires chasing after another good Franken Silvaner, I finally found one with this wine. All the good adjectives apply here. Crisp. Pure. Focused. Minerally. Balanced. The flavors are yellow apple and some spices I can't quite pin down. Maybe a flourish of honey on the finish. Good finish. The wine is both rich and lean. I like this a lot.