CWD: 96 Gambal Volnay 1er

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Lee Short

Lee Short
Drinking wonderfully. Open and fresh, with great balance. Surprisingly primary; bright red fruits. Perfect match for a local duck with herbes de provence and saskatoonberries. Cost me vinum burg, but well worth it (at least the breakage wasn't an Impitoyables).

Drink or hold.
 
originally posted by Lee Short:
CWD: 96 Gambal Volnay 1erDrinking wonderfully. Open and fresh, with great balance. Surprisingly primary; bright red fruits. Perfect match for a local duck with herbes de provence and saskatoonberries. Cost me vinum burg, but well worth it (at least the breakage wasn't an Impitoyables).

Drink or hold.
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That is good to hear. A local distributor just closed this wine out.
 
originally posted by Travis Fantz:
originally posted by Lee Short:
CWD: 96 Gambal Volnay 1erDrinking wonderfully. Open and fresh, with great balance. Surprisingly primary; bright red fruits. Perfect match for a local duck with herbes de provence and saskatoonberries. Cost me vinum burg, but well worth it (at least the breakage wasn't an Impitoyables).

Drink or hold.
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That is good to hear. A local distributor just closed this wine out.
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Looks like a worthwhile purchase, assuming storage has been good.
 
originally posted by Thor:
I finally got to try marionberries, but they weren't all they were cracked up to be.
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But, were you eating them with hookers in a hotel room? That's really the only way to experience them.
 
Alas, only three...maybe four...of my formative berry experiences were with hookers in a hotel room. Clearly, I should have gone into politics.
 
originally posted by Thor:
I finally got to try marionberries, but they weren't all they were cracked up to be.
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Oregonians, my mother among them, tend to wax rhapsodic about them, but my encounters -- like your own -- haven't shaken my preference for blackberries and raspberries. Of course, provenance is everything as store-bought and farmed berries rarely have the flavor and appeal of fresh-picked berries from the "wild," in this case including plants stumbled upon in urban climes.

Mark Lipton
 
I have a serviceberry shrub outside my front door. It's looking a bit wilty now but maybe it will bounce back. What other foods do the berries taste simiilar to?
 
The saskatoonberries I got were wild, small dark berries with dense flavor, not very sweet and with small seeds that were quite noticable when eaten alone.

Marionberries are good indeed, but I can't speak as to whether they stand up to the hype (about which I have been blissfully unaware). My inlaws live in the heart of Oregon berry country, and IMO the best blackberries from around those parts are one of the new cultivars, called 'Sylvan' IIRC.
 
As if Thor never delved into the mind-numbing minutiae of a subject with a seriousness some might find questionable for the internet!

Let Thor he who is without sin cast the first stone!

We're all sitting in glass houses here.

And so on...
 
In the Goode Olde Dayes, Coad would have explained this by now.

Me, I enjoyed Oswaldo's contribution.
 
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