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Rahsaan

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when you move to Inwood.

Namely, Don Rice may bring over a Welcome-Wagon bottle of 1985 Huet Clos du Bourg Vouvray Moelleux.

My only previous experience with this wine was two bottles I bought in Rennes during summer 2008. They weren't bad, but they weren't great either as they leaned too heavily on the sugar but without a rich texture to match.

This bottle showed much better, as it opened with air to provide a tannic but round and luscious frame to support all that dark brown golden sugary fruit. Not a grand wine (I guess that's due to the vintage?) but a lovely way to be welcomed.
 
Welcome to the nabe. I'm glad it was a good bottle.

Friedrich reports that the Huet 85s were their first moelleux vintage after 1976, an interval of practically ten years between late harvest years (with the 1980 "vin de glace" at its nadir).

It's a very good wine that seems a bit pushed, a little oversized for its own good at the moment. That said, it is only 25 years old, and the flavors weren't yet mature. I wish I had more to see what else lies in store down the road.
 
originally posted by Don Rice: Friedrich reports that the Huet 85s were their first moelleux vintage after 1976, an interval of practically ten years between late harvest years (with the 1980 "vin de glace" at its nadir).

It's a very good wine that seems a bit pushed, a little oversized for its own good at the moment. That said, it is only 25 years old, and the flavors weren't yet mature. I wish I had more to see what else lies in store down the road.
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Thanks for the background info. Interesting.

'Pushed' and 'oversized' sum up my feelings exactly, but I also wonder what future development would bring.
 
originally posted by Larry Stein: Isn't that kind of a brutal commute to UMass? (Obviously, I'm missing the whole picture here)
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Only slightly more brutal than the Cambridge-Amherst commute from this past year. Either way I split the week between two locations, because my spouse (like many other academic spouses) cannot pursue her career in Western Mass.

And the Nyc/Western Mass split is actually more common among faculty than the Boston/Western Mass split because Nyc has a lot more to offer the spouses.
 
originally posted by Thor:
Rahsaan has a hovercraft. And possibly some unagi.
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OK, you've thoroughly lost me here. However, understanding it might adversely affect my typically sunny disposition. Perhaps it's a Jon Anderson lyric.
 
Jeez, Larry, that one isn't even particularly difficult. Coad? You out there?

ETA: Nevermind, David's on the case.
 
originally posted by Larry Stein:
*sigh*

I blame it on my brain being preoccupied with wedding stuff. Lame...but effective.
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Congratulations! Many happy wine bottles shall be opened I assume.
 
Thanks! I haven't figured out the wine scenario for dinner yet. There will be 22 people, but not everyone drinks. 2 btls of Champagne for toasts. There are only 2 certified wine geeks coming other than myself. One of them is going to officiate (he's a Universal Life Church minister). I'm going to suggest that they either bring a magnum or 2 btls of the same wine.

I'll have some money to use for wine at the restaurant (Murray Circle in Sausalito). They require us to spend a minimum amount for food/wine in the private dining room. The food cost won't meet that minimum so I'll have a small slush fund for the wine list. The wine list is pricey, but there are a few bargains.
 
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