Chinon and Bagels (Not together)

[Rahsaan]

I found myself in Montreal this weekend for the first time in a long time and it was deliciously good. In many ways. (Except the rain).

For dinner one night I was pleased to order the 2007 Bernard Baudry Chinon Les Grzeaux which was delicious and real from the moment we opened it. But we probably didnt give it enough time for the texture or the more expressive Grzeaux flavors to develop. But even if my critical mouth found it tilting tight, nobody else cared and it was fun regardless. Plus that expressiveness may take a few years?

I also made sure to compare the Fairmount and St-Viateur bagels. Which is conveniently done since they have shops so close to each other.

Cant say that I was anal enough to find any significant differences between the two shops. Maybe slightly denser and chewier at Fairmount? (Were talking sesame here). But that could just as easily be bagel-to-bagel variation and not house-style variation. My sample size was too small to tell. On a more superficial level, Fairmount definitely lost some points in my book for the blueberry chocolate mocha bagels. But whatever helps pay the rent.

And as a picky New Yorker who has found very few real bagels on this planet, I had to give both of these shops my respect.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

I'm a cinnamon raisin man.

 

[JasonA]

Opened and drank a 2007 Bernard Baudry Chinon Les Granges . This wine has never shown better for me. By coincidence I drank my first bottle of this vintage exactly one year prior and my notes on that bottle were none too positive. This one showed beautiful integration of fruit, tannin and that lovely acid backbone. There was an ethereal quality to the wine or that is my justification on why the bottle disappeared so fast.

I will not comment on anyone who enjoys cinnamon raisin bagels.

 

[Thor]

It's kinda like cold fusion, isn't it?

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

To quote the unsurpassable Brezeme reply: You 2 snobbish should ask for Huet or DRC amphora bottlings.

 

[Cory Cartwright]

Salt bagels or no bagels.

 

[MLipton]

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
To quote the unsurpassable Brezeme reply: You 2 snobbish should ask for Huet or DRC amphora bottlings.

Oswaldo,
Over the years, I've learned many disturbing things about friends, acquaintances and even relatives (NB - WW II fucked up a lot of lives of even those who survived it, the reverberations of which are still being felt) but some transgressions just beggar all attempts at tolerance. Raisin "bagels" are one such instance...

Mark Lipton

 

[Sharon Bowman]

originally posted by Cory Cartwright:
Salt bagels or no bagels.

You spelled "sesame" wrong.

 

[Thor]

To quote the unsurpassable Brezeme reply: You 2 snobbish should ask for Huet or DRC amphora bottlings.

Fine, but at least I'm not asking DRC to make plum wine.

 

[lars makie]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

originally posted by Cory Cartwright:
Salt bagels or no bagels.

You spelled "sesame" wrong.

I'm with Sharon... Sesame for the win.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

Lucky thing you're going to New York and not France!

(Oh, come on, one does have to look at the bright side. France's bagels are the pits.)

 

[Rahsaan]

originally posted by JasonA:
Opened and drank a 2007 Bernard Baudry Chinon Les Granges . This wine has never shown better for me. By coincidence I drank my first bottle of this vintage exactly one year prior and my notes on that bottle were none too positive. This one showed beautiful integration of fruit, tannin and that lovely acid backbone..

Nice. I can imagine that this would snap into focus sooner than the Grzeaux.

That said, the wine wasn't closed or unattractive, everyone loved it. I was just thinking of what it 'could' be.

 

[lars makie]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Lucky thing you're going to New York and not France!

(Oh, come on, one does have to look at the bright side. France's bagels are the pits.)

Deny me my croissants and baguettes and I'll get sesame bagels and pastrami on rye. Take that Iceland. What's the saying, living well is the best revenge?

 

[JasonA]

originally posted by lars makie:

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Lucky thing you're going to New York and not France!

(Oh, come on, one does have to look at the bright side. France's bagels are the pits.)

Deny me my croissants and baguettes and I'll get sesame bagels and pastrami on rye. Take that Iceland. What's the saying, living well is the best revenge?

I thought it was lather, rinse, repeat.

 

[lars makie]

originally posted by JasonA:

originally posted by lars makie:

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Lucky thing you're going to New York and not France!

(Oh, come on, one does have to look at the bright side. France's bagels are the pits.)

Deny me my croissants and baguettes and I'll get sesame bagels and pastrami on rye. Take that Iceland. What's the saying, living well is the best revenge?

I thought it was lather, rinse, repeat.

I think that's if you want to get that man right out of your hair.

 

[Thor]

The problem is that we can't be sent on our way.

 

[Yule Kim]

Poppy seed.

 

[Nicolas Mestre]

No love for everything?

 

[Rahsaan]

Everything is probably my favorite, for all the different flavors. I got one at Fairmount yesterday for eating back in the US. Quite good with some Woodcock Farm Cloud 9 cheese, another travel plus of driving through Vermont to get to Montreal.

But I acknowledge that all those flavors can distract from the essence of plain, or even sesame.

That said, clearly nowhere near as much of a distraction as anything involving extra sugar or other flavors (like chocolate) that God did not intend for bagels to have.

 

[Yule Kim]

originally posted by Rahsaan:
Everything is probably my favorite, for all the different flavors.

That said, clearly nowhere near as much of a distraction as anything involving extra sugar or other flavors (like chocolate) that God did not intend for bagels to have.

Agreed.

Asiago Bagel = Fail