Levi Dalton
Levi Dalton
A thank you to Joe Salamone, Maestro of the Macle, for putting together a wonderful Chateau-Chalon dinner this evening.
Kudos!
Kudos!
Joe Salamone and the Great '79
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Morgan Harris
Morgan Harris
Was this at Bar Boulud?
kirk wallace
kirk wallace
and i was stuck in Chicago eating alone at the "chef's table" at Avenues, after which i felt like a got a mild case of food poisining! Oh well.
lars makie
lars makie
Kirk... Don't know if you're still in town or up to it, but tonight there's a tasting with Kevin McKenna at a great wine bar called Webster's. Might be space still avail. A few of us will be there. Also, if you'd had let anyone here know you were in town, I'm sure we could have suggested something better than Avenues.
Levi... Are we going to get any notes of what you guys had other than the great '79? Green is the color of envy correct?
Levi Dalton
Levi Dalton
2006 Cotes du Jura was fairly thick. Could use a few years.
2002 CC was wonderful, with a lifted alpine nose, and still very closed on the whole. I would think it will be amazing in a few decades, maybe the best of the lineup.
2000 CC was lean but more open than the 2002, if a little less layered, and more broad on the palate.
1982 CC was fully open and ready to go (the wines were all opened the previous evening) and very drinkable now, if not the most complex.
1979 CC was off the chain, with really great aromatics and a palate that made Jefford's description of the Macle wines in The New France seem stingy.
1978 CC was simpler than the 1979, and much more sweaty/iodine on the nose. Also some tropical fruit character
1968 CC (a co-op bottling) was past its best and on the decline.
I believe I am forgetting a vintage in the above, but this is just from memory, I don't have the menu handy.
The venue was Bar Boulud, and Michael Madrigale's wine service was exemplary.
2002 CC was wonderful, with a lifted alpine nose, and still very closed on the whole. I would think it will be amazing in a few decades, maybe the best of the lineup.
2000 CC was lean but more open than the 2002, if a little less layered, and more broad on the palate.
1982 CC was fully open and ready to go (the wines were all opened the previous evening) and very drinkable now, if not the most complex.
1979 CC was off the chain, with really great aromatics and a palate that made Jefford's description of the Macle wines in The New France seem stingy.
1978 CC was simpler than the 1979, and much more sweaty/iodine on the nose. Also some tropical fruit character
1968 CC (a co-op bottling) was past its best and on the decline.
I believe I am forgetting a vintage in the above, but this is just from memory, I don't have the menu handy.
The venue was Bar Boulud, and Michael Madrigale's wine service was exemplary.
Levi Dalton
Levi Dalton
Joel Stewart
Joel Stewart
Rub it in with the pics Levi....damn.
kirk wallace
kirk wallace
Thanks, Lars. I'll be sure to reach out next time. I didn't have much spare time this trip --and less given the food poisoning. Avenues (aside from that) really wasn't bad food-wise - maybe a bit more expensive than it should be -- and i enjoyed an '04 JJ Prum WS '04 spat. from their list tremendously.