TN: 1985 Faiveley GC Cazetiers

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maureen

maureen nelson
Just a really lovely bottle of wine. Deep rose color, great nose, balanced, almost sweet, very clean with just enough structure to support the beautiful and mature fruit. A pointe (pardon the lack of accents) but no rush from cold storage (this was from my cellar and I've owned it forever).

Cazetiers is consistently my favorite premier cru from Faiveley and this did not disappoint. And drunk properly - i.e., with just one other person so each of us had plenty of wine and time to spend with it. Just delicious.
 
I think I still have a couple of the Corton Cortons and maybe a Clos de Maréchal from that vintage, though I have not drunk these in years. A couple of the Savigny wines, including the village version, were very nice wines a good fifteen years out, too. Maybe I should start fishing up some of that old stuff. Indeed, I probably shouldn't be burying wine anymore, given the way things have gone.

And no, it's not acceptable after all this time that you still can't find your accents. Come now, your hobby is to collect wines primarily from France and Germany. Your accent keys are weeping from inattention.

Hello and warm thanks to all the DC winos but Loesberg, much as I love him. He let Carolyn take the metro and walk back to her hideout through Woodley Park in the rain, and this when she has just finally received tenure. Bad boy.
 
Two things, Doghead:

1. Open one of those Clos du Cortons for me - that is my favorite '85.

2. Carolyn's miserable journey is her own damn fault - did she let me (who would've made sure she had no such miserable journey) know she was in town???? No! So it's her fault for relying on the Professor.

okay three things - I don't even know how to make accents on my computer!
 
Alas, I have a Mac!

However, now that I have been called upon, I will have to make the side note that the expression in question is in fact "à point" (no "e" at the end). Pron: ah pwan.
 
well, I did know how to pronounce it, even if I didn't know how to spell it! (Unlike "Phoebe" when I was quite young.)
 
à ALT+0224
ä ALT+0228
a^ (WD software won't allow these together) ALT+131
è ALT+0232 or ALT+138
é ALT+0233 or ALT+130
ê ALT+0234 or ALT+136
ë ALT+0235
î ALT+0238
ï ALT+0239
ô ALT+0244 or ALT+147
ù ALT+0249
û ALT+0251
ü ALT+0252
ÿ ALT+0255
ç ALT+135
 
For macs:

Option+` followed by letter gives you accent grave on letter
Option+e followed by letter gives you accent aigu on letter
Option+u followed by letter gives you umlaut on letter
Option+i followed by letter gives you circonflex on letter
Option+c gives ç
Option+n gives thingy whose name in Spanish I don't recall then follow with letter, e.g., ñ
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
à ALT+0224
ä ALT+0228
a^ (WD software won't allow these together) ALT+131
è ALT+0232 or ALT+138
é ALT+0233 or ALT+130
ê ALT+0234 or ALT+136
ë ALT+0235
î ALT+0238
ï ALT+0239
ô ALT+0244 or ALT+147
ù ALT+0249
û ALT+0251
ü ALT+0252
ÿ ALT+0255
ç ALT+135
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Much easier for a PC is to set your keyboard to International English. Then, e.g., ` followed by e is è, " followed by u is ü, etc.
 
originally posted by maureen:
well, I did know how to pronounce it, even if I didn't know how to spell it! (Unlike "Phoebe" when I was quite young.)
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Reminds me of a story my old friend Jerry told me once. He was winning a reading contest in elementary school, until he was undone in the last round by the word "misled." Which he pronounced "MY-zeld."
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Alas, my Windows XP doesn't have that option. Is yours XP too?
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Yes.

It's there, you just have to look for it. (Sorry, I'm at home and the PC is at work.) Try the Microsoft website for keyboards to see if they give instruction.
 
originally posted by Mr. Doghead:
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How lame.
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Pete's sincerity has long been a source of embarrassement for us, your majesty. Shall we throw him in the dungeon, or is watching reruns of Leave it to Beaver punishment enough?
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by maureen:
well, I did know how to pronounce it, even if I didn't know how to spell it! (Unlike "Phoebe" when I was quite young.)
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Reminds me of a story my old friend Jerry told me once. He was winning a reading contest in elementary school, until he was undone in the last round by the word "misled." Which he pronounced "MY-zeld."
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I used to think that Psoriasis (pronounced Sorry Aces) would be a good name for a band. No more.
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
originally posted by Mr. Doghead:
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How lame.
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Pete's sincerity has long been a source of embarrassement for us, your majesty. Shall we throw him in the dungeon, or is watching reruns of Leave it to Beaver punishment enough?
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I just thought he was saying that the lack of circumflex was lame. That is not 100% Pete's fault.

I know there aren't many drinkers of Chateauneuf-du-Pape and Batard-Montrachet hereabouts, but still, don't it rankle? "A" with hat! "A" with hat!
 
The PB has long known about our inability to properly caparison the hatless a, yet chooses to do nothing to remedy the situation. Why? Because it doesn't want to risk being seen as perfect. Lest that (Lestat, l'état) attract the ire of the gods (or bring them back from hiatus).
 
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