Rioja at the TGJP

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pierre-alain benoit
Hello,
We made a very nice dinner at the tgjp in Paris last friday with 90' Rioja and very nice Baudry 2009 and Faurie 2009.
See
www.tgjp.com
Ask any questions on the forum and I will try to answer.
Best regards
pierre-alain benoit
 
"Ramon", "belotta"... Everything was bretty or corked, and white '93 Tondonia "bordered on technological wine".

Wow. Quite a tasting.
 
We tend to say jamón. Ramón would be a dark-haired Latin lover of jamón. Ibérico, of course.
 
originally posted by VS:
We tend to say jamón. Ramón would be a dark-haired Latin lover of jamón. Ibérico, of course.
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Hmmm.... I'm a dark-haired mongrel lover of jamón, but I don't answer to "Ramón."

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by VS:
"Ramon", "belotta"... Everything was bretty or corked, and white '93 Tondonia "bordered on technological wine".

Wow. Quite a tasting.
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Hello,
It was a mad evenning. But I don't know how they sell old rioja with new cork and new label. 10 years or 15 years in bootle or in old vat ?
Ramon is our friend. He's name is Mercader.
Best regards
pierre-alain
 
Hard to believe Rand is mentioned in these parts, even indirectly, without at least some deconstruction of her work. I enjoyed a passing flirtation whilst in college, but nowadays her fiction reminds me of Judge Parker cartoons as much as anything - everything is flat and two-dimensional, the problems and issues excessively contrived, the good and bad characters too clearly white- or black-hatted. Perhaps more like an Indonesia shadow theater, than a cartoon strip, but without all the engaging cultural texture. To be fair, I haven't read a book by her in many, many years.

Of course, when her ideas dominate the thinking of the Chairman of the Fed, they have some practical impact.
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Hard to believe Rand is mentioned in these parts, even indirectly, without at least some deconstruction of her work. I enjoyed a passing flirtation whilst in college, but nowadays her fiction reminds me of Judge Parker cartoons as much as anything - everything is flat and two-dimensional, the problems and issues excessively contrived, the good and bad characters too clearly white- or black-hatted. Perhaps more like an Indonesia shadow theater, than a cartoon strip, but without all the engaging cultural texture. To be fair, I haven't read a book by her in many, many years.

Of course, when her ideas dominate the thinking of the Chairman of the Fed, they have some practical impact.
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Ian,
If your tastes run to stilted, ideologically driven fiction, I would advise you to seek out George Orwell's fiction. It's not that much better than Rand's as fiction, and no one would accuse it of being overly subtle, but I at least find some of his points persuasive, as opposed to those of Rand.

Mark Lipton
(who always preferred Orwell's nonfiction)
 
I don't find 1984 quite as mind deadening as Rand, though it is surely ideologically driven. And Keep the Aspidistra Flying is really a rather good novel. But I agree that the nonfiction is better.
 
originally posted by MLipton:
Ian,
If your tastes run to stilted, ideologically driven fiction, I would advise you to seek out George Orwell's fiction.
...

Mark Lipton
(who always preferred Orwell's nonfiction)
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Do your tastes run this way? Mine don't.

I have a sentimental fondness for Orwell, though I prefer his essays and reportage-style books to his fiction.
 
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