Manchuela Mauler Brings the Heat

Wait, what?

I heard they were playing a few games in Sweden and the Czech Republic to start the season.
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Oh dear, I can see how my quip could've been confusing, were one actively seeking specific information on the game schedule for the beginning of the NHL season this year. Allow me to clarify, please.

My intent with that sentence was less literal and utilitarian and more metaphoric and fanciful. I think my mistake was that my attempt at humor presumed a familiarity with the perhaps rather obscure old saw "...when hell freezes over," (a saw that is made even more confusing by being a sentence fragment and not a complete aphorism on its own merits). At any rate, this phrase is traditionally used to describe something so improbable as to be nearly impossiblei.e., it's so very very hot in the stereotypical Christian hell that ice would never even begin to form, much less freeze the whole place over. It just couldn't happen, no way no how.

Thus, the humorous sentiment that I attempted (rather clumsily) to imply was that Manuel's enjoyment of Victor's wine, combined with his use of the word 'elegant' to describe it, was in fact a wildly improbable event. So much so that (mirabile dictu!) hell DID in fact freeze over, at least in the amusing vision that I'm attempting to construct. EXCEPT (and here's where I think some of the trouble comes in) I didn't say just exactly that. What I did then was make a rather ungainly psycho-lexicological leap, assuming the reader's familiarity with the National Hockey League's typical playing surface (ice) and assuming equally that one ought not be distracted by my pivoting the jape around an only tangentially-related and somewhat distracting subject (the NHL).

So to cut through the clutter and restate myself in a less confusing fashion: Damn, Camblor calls a wine of Victor's 'elegant'? I think hell just froze over!

More concrete information on National Hockey League scheduling can be found here.
 
Manuel has shown an appreciation for the 2002, for which I'm thankful. The 2002 and the 2006 are possibly our two 'light' vintages, and I like both a lot. Of course, you can imagine how our 'powerful' vintages, 2004 and 2005, can be... I'd never dream of submitting Disorderlies to such an ordeal.
 
in his dotage. I'm pretty sure I wasn't so complimentary when I tasted the wines (I think it was '04) in Madrid a year or so ago.

But seriously, where's the disorder? I demand an explanation from the Politburo!
 
originally posted by Chris Coad:
Victor, how do these '06s fit in on that scale of light to powerful?
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Obviously not 'light' in absolute terms, but relatively, within our range and in our part of the world, this is probably, with 2001 and 2002, the third lightest vintage out of the first seven we've made. The differences aren't all that great, but the 'heat' vintage, 2003, produced obviously more alcoholic wines, and the ballyhooed 2004 and 2005 gave us more structured wines with probably a longer development curve ahead. But it's not really for me to judge - I hope others will.
 
originally posted by Yixin:
Camblor is getting softin his dotage. I'm pretty sure I wasn't so complimentary when I tasted the wines (I think it was '04) in Madrid a year or so ago.

But seriously, where's the disorder? I demand an explanation from the Politburo!
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Camblor reserves the right to fuck with people's perceptions of him. At will. And he's one capricious bald bastard.

How's that for disorder?

M.
 
Hmmm. Victor might need to work on his market positioning, or price signaling, or whatever that thing is where you force retailers to make your wine expensive so it's better.
 
With a total production of 890 magnums, I'd advise you to jump on that slightly reduced price - if you can... :-)
 
An update for SFJoe: we were pressing finished bobal today - and that thing was very purple, sorry! Yet - only 13.5% alc., and beneath the purple look, total polyphenols are actually a bit down in this cool vintage, so who knows - we might make something acceptable. From there, I drove 40 miles down to the alicante bouschet vineyard at Pozo Lorente, where we've harvested nine tons today. Obviously, being a 'teinturier' grape, it was (as ever) pretty purple. Darn! But only 13.2%, again. Healthy, ripe skins and pips, and it tastes very good. Some raisined grapes. I actually brought back a few bunches home to eat.
 
originally posted by VS:
An update for SFJoe: we were pressing finished bobal today - and that thing was very purple, sorry! Yet - only 13.5% alc., and beneath the purple look, total polyphenols are actually a bit down in this cool vintage, so who knows - we might make something acceptable. From there, I drove 40 miles down to the alicante bouschet vineyard at Pozo Lorente, where we've harvested nine tons today. Obviously, being a 'teinturier' grape, it was (as ever) pretty purple. Darn! But only 13.2%, again. Healthy, ripe skins and pips, and it tastes very good. Some raisined grapes. I actually brought back a few bunches home to eat.
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Thanks much for the update, Victor, I look forward to trying them down the road.
 
Well, we can't be perfect down here in the far south. We can't really duplicate those subtle poulsard/ploussard or cot hues... :-)
 
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