Thanks Levi! 2007 Apicella "Tramonti"

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Jeff Grossman

Jeff Grossman
Very fine tannins, black cherries (but not sweet cherries), a distant leathery scent, medium-weight and refreshing. Splendid recommendation. It held forth nicely with an eggless Tetrazzini.
 
Whilst everyone is in a praise-Levi mode, I'd be remiss in not thanking him for his "So you want to be a sommelier? reading list: http://bit.ly/iVIZ11 In fact, it empowered me to power through my sommelier training (I got all 8 DVDs of it on QVC last week), despite having become disillusioned by that recent article in Parade Magazine (by Belinda Chang) that showed up with last week's Sunday paper about how there's not nearly as much money in being the wine business as there is in sticking with your job as an investment banker, bond salesperson, or as an almost-a-partner-in-the-firm attorney. She really blew the wind out of my sails (my sales too) when she added that being a sommelier is about as glamorous as being a CPA (although I've seen more than my fair share of CPA's who could buy as much 47 Cheval Blanc as anyone would have the time to print up the labels and doctor the corks), and I know only a few sommeliers who'd know enough to snicker at them).

I'd agree with you that Sendak's book has had a huge influence as to how sommeliers have approached food and wine matching, but I'd have to say that the movie just didn't "get" it, in the way that the movie version of "Everyone Poops' might have been even more effective in getting to the heart of the wine miasma than the book (although the thinly-veiled, tribute-to-"Satyricon" dream scene struck me as gratuitous) in showing what restaurant life is really like. Me, I'm not offput by the knowledge or the customers. It's the hours that suck, and seemingly having to "do inventory" all the time. Sheesh, can't the bottles just take care of themselves once in awhile? Maybe I'm not cut out for the lifestyle after all...

-Eden (as the quotation goes in Germany: "Somms are culled", Ernie Loosen")
 
Eden, thank you for your remarks. It is true that I personally found Sendak's followup work, Where the Wild Things Do Inventory, a mite less compelling.
 
However Higgledy Piggledy Pape or There Must be More to Wine is a masterful indictment of the current state of winemaking in the southern Rhone.
 
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