Levi Dalton
Levi Dalton
Word around the campfire is that the inimitable Morgan Harris celebrated a birthday this evening amidst an elegant dining room, and amongst his peers.
Congratulations, Sir.
Congratulations, Sir.
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Happy Birthday, Morgan Harris!
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Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Mz Tv
John McIlwain
John McIlwain
Yes. Happy Birthday!
Best, John
Best, John
Morgan Harris
Morgan Harris
It did occur. There was excellent drinking involved, as my parents were here for the weekend...
On Friday, the actual day, we dined at Daniel. It was very excellent, to say the least. I apologize for lack of details, but I was focused on enjoying the meal rather than recording it meticulously.
I won't go into too many details, but there was Patrick Piuze Meursault '07 with my red pheasant consomee. Showing the lean-ness of the vintage, but the opulence of the village, with just a kiss of oak. Definitely the quality I have come to expect from him and in a vintage I love. This is maybe only available at Daniel? Nom-nom...
This transitioned into Scottish grouse with Chave St. Joseph "Offertus", didn't write down the vintage, but not brand spanking new or super old. While I've never had this producer before, I found the wine to be concentrated and dense, but varietally typical with lots of black-pepper/blackberry bramble/violet/bacon. It's definitely not as delicate as some examples of North Rhone syrah I've had, but I'm not sure that I could "join the lynch mob" (as Levi put it during our random encounter at Terroir) against Chave based on this. Again, this is not the same bottling as mentioned in the recent thread...but I wouldn't feel embarrassed ordering this with certain dishes/in certain new-world-oriented wine-drinking circles.
My brother was nice enough to switch half-way through his plate (how gauche, I know) of hare "a la royale" (for curiosity's sake, not because I didn't like my grouse). This was paired with '96 Oddero Normale Barolo, which I really enjoyed. The excellent vintage was showing and the bottle was open for business, varietally accurate, and not covered with too much oak, as some people have said of their younger wines. Not the platonic ideal of Barolo, which given my current Barolo experience is '96 Borgogno Classico Reserva, but not disappointing, certainly.
Dessert was excellent, and half the table was paired pair with a 100% furmint, 5 puttonyos Tokaji (the producer escapes me) and a very nice '96 revisaltes. The revisaltes was my first experience with the AOC, and tasty, but I'm not going to try to speak to the quality. The 100% furmint Tokaji was excellent, and so herbal and dense, but very little fruit, and mostly just this sinuous, coiled herbaciousness and minerality and it totally sung with my brother's spiced poached bosc pear dessert.
The only small hiccup in service was my little brother ordered a Sazerac (the cocktail) and was served Sazerac (the bourbon). We didn't say anything about it, because Sazerac is a fine bourbon, but it was interesting that they didn't even ask. I had a corpse reviver #2 (which I had to give the recipe for) and my father a dubonet rouge rocks. Otherwise the service and meal were flawless.
This was followed with a walk down to Rouge Tomate, where my friend and colleague Pascaline LePeltier (go visit her, she and her list are awesome, not to mention the restaurant)and was treated to the L/D Bugey-Cerdon she serves (again, don't know the producer) as we bought a bottle of La Clarine Mourvedre 2007, which is all that everyone says about it. I've had the syrah as well, and they're just awesomely varietally typical, un-spoofy and totally alive. This is wine that will give you faith in California again if you've lost it.
Other than that, another highlight of the weekend was Bornard 100% Savignin Cremant de Jura (can't remember what the bottling is called). This was not as crazy, screetchy, and dirty as some of his other bottlings I've had. Very pear-and-apple cider-y, with great underlying minerality and just a kiss of funk (brie-rindy) and residual sugar (10% alcohol).
Calek Blonde - I am on Levi's team with this one. Thanks for the recommendation! Get some at Astor now.
Clos de Briords Marc Olliver Muscadet 2009 from Magnum - I'm in Cory's camp on this one. Drink now. Really sexy, svelte muscadet.
Frank Cornellisen Munjebel 6 - I thought I would get to taste this under better conditions, but didn't...I can see why people love this wine, but I didn't get to try it under ideal conditions. The party I brought it to had far fewer wine nerds than was originally suggested and couldn't decant it and get it to the right temperature and let it breathe and all that blah blah blah...that being said, for any fans of Radikon/Gravner this is totally in your wheelhouse. It's less austere, friendlier, more southern Italy than the the Ribolla Gialla/Friulano-based wines. I really loved it, but at $35-40 a bottle, it will be reserved for people who will understand and respect it, which was sadly not even close to everyone at this party...
Apologies for typos, but I'm about to run out the door...
On Friday, the actual day, we dined at Daniel. It was very excellent, to say the least. I apologize for lack of details, but I was focused on enjoying the meal rather than recording it meticulously.
I won't go into too many details, but there was Patrick Piuze Meursault '07 with my red pheasant consomee. Showing the lean-ness of the vintage, but the opulence of the village, with just a kiss of oak. Definitely the quality I have come to expect from him and in a vintage I love. This is maybe only available at Daniel? Nom-nom...
This transitioned into Scottish grouse with Chave St. Joseph "Offertus", didn't write down the vintage, but not brand spanking new or super old. While I've never had this producer before, I found the wine to be concentrated and dense, but varietally typical with lots of black-pepper/blackberry bramble/violet/bacon. It's definitely not as delicate as some examples of North Rhone syrah I've had, but I'm not sure that I could "join the lynch mob" (as Levi put it during our random encounter at Terroir) against Chave based on this. Again, this is not the same bottling as mentioned in the recent thread...but I wouldn't feel embarrassed ordering this with certain dishes/in certain new-world-oriented wine-drinking circles.
My brother was nice enough to switch half-way through his plate (how gauche, I know) of hare "a la royale" (for curiosity's sake, not because I didn't like my grouse). This was paired with '96 Oddero Normale Barolo, which I really enjoyed. The excellent vintage was showing and the bottle was open for business, varietally accurate, and not covered with too much oak, as some people have said of their younger wines. Not the platonic ideal of Barolo, which given my current Barolo experience is '96 Borgogno Classico Reserva, but not disappointing, certainly.
Dessert was excellent, and half the table was paired pair with a 100% furmint, 5 puttonyos Tokaji (the producer escapes me) and a very nice '96 revisaltes. The revisaltes was my first experience with the AOC, and tasty, but I'm not going to try to speak to the quality. The 100% furmint Tokaji was excellent, and so herbal and dense, but very little fruit, and mostly just this sinuous, coiled herbaciousness and minerality and it totally sung with my brother's spiced poached bosc pear dessert.
The only small hiccup in service was my little brother ordered a Sazerac (the cocktail) and was served Sazerac (the bourbon). We didn't say anything about it, because Sazerac is a fine bourbon, but it was interesting that they didn't even ask. I had a corpse reviver #2 (which I had to give the recipe for) and my father a dubonet rouge rocks. Otherwise the service and meal were flawless.
This was followed with a walk down to Rouge Tomate, where my friend and colleague Pascaline LePeltier (go visit her, she and her list are awesome, not to mention the restaurant)and was treated to the L/D Bugey-Cerdon she serves (again, don't know the producer) as we bought a bottle of La Clarine Mourvedre 2007, which is all that everyone says about it. I've had the syrah as well, and they're just awesomely varietally typical, un-spoofy and totally alive. This is wine that will give you faith in California again if you've lost it.
Other than that, another highlight of the weekend was Bornard 100% Savignin Cremant de Jura (can't remember what the bottling is called). This was not as crazy, screetchy, and dirty as some of his other bottlings I've had. Very pear-and-apple cider-y, with great underlying minerality and just a kiss of funk (brie-rindy) and residual sugar (10% alcohol).
Calek Blonde - I am on Levi's team with this one. Thanks for the recommendation! Get some at Astor now.
Clos de Briords Marc Olliver Muscadet 2009 from Magnum - I'm in Cory's camp on this one. Drink now. Really sexy, svelte muscadet.
Frank Cornellisen Munjebel 6 - I thought I would get to taste this under better conditions, but didn't...I can see why people love this wine, but I didn't get to try it under ideal conditions. The party I brought it to had far fewer wine nerds than was originally suggested and couldn't decant it and get it to the right temperature and let it breathe and all that blah blah blah...that being said, for any fans of Radikon/Gravner this is totally in your wheelhouse. It's less austere, friendlier, more southern Italy than the the Ribolla Gialla/Friulano-based wines. I really loved it, but at $35-40 a bottle, it will be reserved for people who will understand and respect it, which was sadly not even close to everyone at this party...
Apologies for typos, but I'm about to run out the door...
Levi Dalton
Levi Dalton
Thank you, Thor.
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Orc chieftain subordinate to the Mouth of Sauron?originally posted by Thor:
Lou Amdur
kirk wallace
kirk wallace
originally posted by Thor:
I can't believe I'm going to admit this, but you lost me with that one.
Google is not to be defeated.
Amdr, Lord of Blades -- The Lord of Blades leads the Easterling Dragon Knights, and is the most skilled of that corrupt order. Amdr has already carved a fearsome reputation in the lands beyond Mordor, and now has come to test his brutal skills on the blood-soaked Pelennor.
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kirk wallace
kirk wallace
originally posted by Thor:
Ah. My fault for not going beyond the text. I admit I'd never heard of that game. My geekery is insufficient.
I hadn't either, but I love (easy) research.