CWD: '09 Tete B-V

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Mark Lipton
Continuing in our tour of ready-to-drink '09 Beaujolais, tonight I cooked some bunnies in mustard sauce and opened a bottle of the '09 Michel Tete Beaujolais-Villages (fake cork alert!) which is a lovely, dark-complected wine with plenty of freshness, great minerality and an intriguing floral note. Veering more toward the black fruit end of the Gamay spectrum, this was nonetheless very approachable and appealing in its youth. Well done!

Mark Lipton
 
Non, c'est bon, a!

Haven't you been immersed in deepest Loire? I hope you ate some tasty eel, while there.

Now, go eat some tripe or black pudding, please....
 
Aesthetics aside, I will grudgingly admit that it tasted increasingly edible as I bravely soldiered on to the last particle. I am willing to grow and develop, even if it takes a blindfold.
 
Oswaldo, I hope you aren't too inconvenienced by all the strikes.

But we all raise a glass in praise of a good andouillette. It always makes me know I'm in France, because you sure don't see 'em in the US.
 
For the last three days we had to literally forage for unleaded gas, available at few places and limited to 30 Euro a pop, but with luck we managed, thanks in part to the GPS gas station locator. Today we drove into Paris, so the pressure is off.
 
Great. I've been worried that you were trapped somewhere, with nothing but andouillette and Touraine gamay to keep you alive.
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
For the last three days we had to literally forage for unleaded gas, available at few places and limited to 30 Euro a pop, but with luck we managed, thanks in part to the GPS gas station locator. Today we drove into Paris, so the pressure is off.
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at first read, i thought you meant 30 euro/litre! but, you mean a limit of 30 euro of gas per car.... right?
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by Bill Lundstrom: but, you mean a limit of 30 euro of gas per car.... right?
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Somehow I doubt it. That sounds cheap. Even with those small cars.
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The French news has been regularly showing gas stations with 40 Euro limits on the amount of gas one can buy, so 30 Euros is not hard to believe.
 
Oh, ok. Makes sense. But it wouldn't necessarily fill up the tank. That's what I was (obviously for no good reason) talking about.
 
Yes, a maximum expenditure of 30 Euro, so if you get the cheaper 95 (octane?) varietal you get half a tank (for my rental car, at least). If you pick the supermatured, unctuous and pricier 98 kind of gasoline, with less acidity, you get less, as any sophisticated mathematician will tell you. I saw one place with a limit of 15 Euro. None with 40.
 
Opened another bottle tonight and it was pretty well shut down. It took about an hour of coaxing for the fruit to come out from hiding, but all was fine after that.

Mark Lipton
 
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