The hipsters come out at night

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Sharon Bowman

Sharon Bowman
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Coulaine is hardly on tip of every hipsters tongue, but we found the wines to be excellent, and noted the respect in which they are held by those to whom we mentioned them.

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2009 Chinon 13.0%
Field blend. Cherry and chalk. Simple but balanced, clean and pure, quite lovely. Ideal house or bistro wine.


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This wine is as Oswaldo relates. Really fresh and balanced. Chalk in spades. It does well with my confit de canard on this steely cold Paris night.
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Phew, I'm relieved that it didn't make you yawn (a joke not so much private as ephemeral).
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Someone was talking to me the other day about mayflies. In French, they're called phmres. Do they have a name in Portuguese?

Not that I plan on dying tomorrow, of course.

As for the Ch. de Coulaine Chinon, it has always been a favorite.
 
Here they are called efemeroptera; can't seem to find a vulgar name. Interesting that the male lives only a few hours and the female several weeks. Imagine that.
 
So, last night our sole exemplar of this, a souvenir of the visit, went to the scaffold. Cherry, iodine and chalky toothpaste gypsum greeted the world-weary nascelles. Zippy and very fruity, with correct acid/sweet balance and satisfying mouth weight. So far so good, except that, as so often happens, the real action began once the subatomic particles felt they were no longer being observed. Retreat from the madding crowd of analytical budgerigars signaled entry into an unjudgmental glade where bliss reigned supreme. Back up the celestial truck, this baby works humble magic.
 
Schrdinger's parrot! I knew something cosmic was hiding in those chalk caves beneath Beaumont-en-Vron.

Glad you do not give this "simple" cuve short shrift. 'Cause it's a great one.
 
From the Washington Post's recent review of three books about hipsters:

STUFF HIPSTERS HATE: A Field Guide to the Passionate Opinions of the Indifferent, by Brenna Ehrlich and Andrea Bartz (Ulysses Press; paperback, $14.95). "Hipsters are largely negative creatures who gain power and authority by putting things (e.g., music, living situations, apparel, you) down," write the authors. In short essays, the authors tell us what hipsters hate, including: bras, television, being conventionally attractive, knowing their bank balance, making the first move sexually, and when their friends go to law school. The horror!

Love that list of things hipsters hate!
 
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