2010-07-03 A Celebratory Dinner

By the glass at Terroir nyc.
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Holy crap. Greico is...well, why isn't he in Vegas? For a living, That's just...wow. Crazy. Nutty. Insane. (But if the beautiful woman with the Letterman gap is pouring, why not?)

That said, I think I agree with Cory. Unless they open a new bottle for you, God knows what you're going to get. Every potential argument against "natural wine" is eventually deployed by fans of the genre against Cornelissen, and for good reason. And yet...and yet...you have a good one, and your color palette shifts, permanently. I wouldn't trade the experience at all, but I will say by way of (non-baseball [inside joke]) analogy that they're Alice wines, not Guilhaume wines. They're the Sicilian Scholium, and I mean that as a positive; he does what interests him, not what he thinks will be good. There's an enormous purity in that, even when the wines are intolerably impure.

I don't buy them, myself, because I don't agree (commercially) with what he does. But I do, very much, agree (organoleptically) with his successes. Not at all the failures. It's a quandary, but I live with it. I wouldn't miss tasting one if I ever had the opportunity.
 
I'll buy a bottle. Cornelissen, Frank NV VdT (Etna Rosso) Contadino 6 is the one they have. Vin de Table in Sicily. I love it already. (emoticon)

I love Scholium and have been behind Abe's wines for a while so that is a positive for me. The pink/reddish/amber Pinot Grigio that tastes like a weird vinous cocktail is great. A once a year bottle for sure, but a must every year.

Hopefully it will be like Mark Fidrych pitching a no-hitter on LSD.
 
originally posted by Lyle Fass:
I'll buy a bottle. Cornelissen, Frank NV VdT (Etna Rosso) Contadino 6 is the one they have. Vin de Table in Sicily. I love it already. (emoticon)

I love Scholium and have been behind Abe's wines for a while so that is a positive for me. The pink/reddish/amber Pinot Grigio that tastes like a weird vinous cocktail is great. A once a year bottle for sure, but a must every year.

Hopefully it will be like Mark Fidrych pitching a no-hitter on LSD.
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The advantage of going by the glass is that they decant well ahead of time, which, as detailed in earlier posts, seems to be necessary (for optimum enjoyment) with this wine. Of course, if you know when you want a full bottle and let them know, in my experience, they are more than happy to open and decant the bottle for you earlier that day.
 
originally posted by Lyle Fass:
I'll buy a bottle. Cornelissen, Frank NV VdT (Etna Rosso) Contadino 6 is the one they have. Vin de Table in Sicily. I love it already. (emoticon)
Hopefully it will be like Mark Fidrych pitching a no-hitter on LSD.
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Do it. I've really enjoyed the Contadino 6 the couple times I've had it. One of which was at Hearth. I wouldn't hold out for it to be on par with The Bird pitching on LSD, though. It is actually a fairly easy going bottle of wine (in the scheme of these things) and is really quite food friendly.

Here's a previous thread.
 
originally posted by lars makie:
originally posted by Lyle Fass:
I'll buy a bottle. Cornelissen, Frank NV VdT (Etna Rosso) Contadino 6 is the one they have. Vin de Table in Sicily. I love it already. (emoticon)
Hopefully it will be like Mark Fidrych pitching a no-hitter on LSD.
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Do it. I've really enjoyed the Contadino 6 the couple times I've had it. One of which was at Hearth. I wouldn't hold out for it to be on par with The Bird pitching on LSD, though. It is actually a fairly easy going bottle of wine (in the scheme of these things) and is really quite food friendly.

Here's a previous thread.
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For the record the LSD no-hitter was pitched by Dock Ellis[/quote]

I don't think the bird ever pitched a no-hitter.

Baseballpedant_Kevin
 
originally posted by lars makie:
originally posted by Lyle Fass:
I'll buy a bottle. Cornelissen, Frank NV VdT (Etna Rosso) Contadino 6 is the one they have. Vin de Table in Sicily. I love it already. (emoticon)
Hopefully it will be like Mark Fidrych pitching a no-hitter on LSD.
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Do it. I've really enjoyed the Contadino 6 the couple times I've had it. One of which was at Hearth. I wouldn't hold out for it to be on par with The Bird pitching on LSD, though. It is actually a fairly easy going bottle of wine (in the scheme of these things) and is really quite food friendly.

Here's a previous thread.
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Man, I really thought it was the Byrd on LSD and not Dock Ellis.

Looking forward to the bottle.
 
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
By the glass at Terroir nyc.
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True that. I had it and it was showing well. Funky in every way I wanted.

I was invited to taste a Magma with a couple of friends but I had to work. There were perhaps tears involved.
 
Haven't we had this conversation before? The short & snarky version is that while I encourage biological experimentation, I'm rarely eager to pay for it.
 
originally posted by Thor:
Haven't we had this conversation before? The short & snarky version is that while I encourage biological experimentation, I'm rarely eager to pay for it.
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Yes, the experimentation was discussed (at least he admits it anyway, I suspect there's plenty of experimentation that isn't readily admitted to out there). The use of "commercially" sounded like there's some type business practice of his you prefer not to support.
 
I'm hoping experimentation just may be leading to some positive developments. The goal of "works in progress", right? So that should improve the odds.
 
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