3 great Juras

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Arno Tronche

Arnaud Tronche
After bringing back some aged comte, mimolette and gruyere from France, we decided to eat them with some nice wines from Jura. It was a great time around fabulous cheeses and wines.

2003 Stephane Tissot, Arbois La Mailloche (chardonnay)
Wow, this is absolutely outstanding. Nutty with some green apple and a touch of honey and smoke. Floral. An apparent minerality links everything together. The palate is an example of balance, coating your palate with no lack of acidity and no sign of heaviness. Tasting this blind would take you on a top Meursault. Intoxicating, complex and stunning.
This vineyard did very well in this hot vintage thanks to its clayish terroir and its Eastern aspect.

2002 Jacques Puffeney Arbois Savagnin
This was fantastic. Iodine and a lot of spicy curry notes on the nose. Light walnut as well. I was expecting a more oxidised style but this is midly oxidised. Wine is flowing on your palate, superb acidity with more lemony notes on a medium body. Awesome comte rind notes as well.
Long finish. Complex and fresh. I love it!

2004 Stephane Tissot PMG
PMG (Pour Ma Gueule) is a passerillage of poulsard and savagnin grapes. It has around 500g of sugar per liter but presents a terrific acidity. Of course this is thick but incredibly balanced. Superb salty tang with raisins and figs. I'd love to try again in 50 years.
 
Hopefully we will all be alive in 50 years, there will still be an Internet, and we won't have had to genetically modify ourselves to have gills and flippers in order to live in a brave new sub-aqueous world.
 
Apropos Jura, Kermit Lynch is now importing Ganevat, per his latest mailer. Looks like the east coast has a price advantage, though.
 
originally posted by Yule Kim:
Hopefully we will all be alive in 50 years, there will still be an Internet, and we won't have had to genetically modify ourselves to have gills and flippers in order to live in a brave new sub-aqueous world.
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After switching from NPR to the oldies station I no longer have these worries.
 
Thanks for the note on the Puff. I got two bottles from HDH a little bit ago for a relative song, so I'm happy to hear it's hitting the spot.

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Great stuff. If you have more, I'll definitely come to Chicago!
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Oswaldo, any time you want to fly into Chicago for some drinking, just let us know and we'll gladly get something together. You might want to wait 'til after winter though. It's pretty shittacular here right now.
 
originally posted by lars makie:
Thanks for the note on the Puff. I got two bottles from HDH a little bit ago for a relative song, so I'm happy to hear it's hitting the spot.

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Great stuff. If you have more, I'll definitely come to Chicago!
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Oswaldo, any time you want to fly into Chicago for some drinking, just let us know and we'll gladly get something together. You might want to wait 'til after winter though. It's pretty shittacular here right now.
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Exactly. Start booking your tickets !
 
And here, we wear mid-season jackets.

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Well, here we get to park our cars where ever we want and pretend we're living on Hoth.

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That's Lake Shore Drive by the way, from the other night.
 
originally posted by lars makie:
Oh yeah...Well, here we get to park our cars where ever we want and pretend we're living on Hoth.

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That's Lake Shore Drive by the way, from the other night.
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Yeah, I heard about that, Lars. Crazy that drivers would just get up and abandon their cars on Lakeshore, but it speaks to just how awful the weather was that night. As is often the case, our remove of 120 mi to the SE made all the difference: 2" of sleet followed by 4" of snow, mild winds. Schools were still closed for two days, though, leaving most of us scratching our heads.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by MLipton:
Yeah, I heard about that, Lars. Crazy that drivers would just get up and abandon their cars on Lakeshore, but it speaks to just how awful the weather was that night. As is often the case, our remove of 120 mi to the SE made all the difference: 2" of sleet followed by 4" of snow, mild winds. Schools were still closed for two days, though, leaving most of us scratching our heads.

Mark Lipton
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Yeah, it was insane. The craziest part was the 60mph winds. It was a bit scary. I feel bad for the people who were stuck on LSD, but c'mon, there was a fucking blizzard coming and you go that close to the lake? Dumb. The main problem was that a bus jack-knifed and another stalled leaving people stuck for four-five hours.
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Apropos Jura, Kermit Lynch is now importing Ganevat, per his latest mailer. Looks like the east coast has a price advantage, though.
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Don't forget that KL never likes to undercut their retailers on price. Hence the newsletter prices are pretty much full MSRP while the actual prices at retail are usually less.
 
i would venture that the Ganevat on the East Coast has nothing to do with KL. i am pretty sure the Ganevat brought in by KL is only available on the west coast.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
That is an awesome picture.
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+1. It looks like a shot from The Day After Tomorrow.

I heard on the radio that the fire department were compelling drivers to leave their cars after traffic had stopped for several hours.
 
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