The Events of the Night In Question

originally posted by Chris Coad:

A bit later on Kane swings by and, noting that the bottle is effectively empty, donates most of his pour of Prager Riesling Weissenkirchen Ried Klaus Auslese 1990 to me. Almost makes me feel guilty about that phone thing. Almost. But he'll never find out, so no harm done.
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Focher. I should've known of your malevolent intent.

So nice to see you posting again with somewhat regularity.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Godard made a great short film in the late '50s called "Tous les garçons s'appellent Patrick."
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From around the same time (great minds think alike):

Too Many Daves
by Dr. Seuss


Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave
Had twenty-three sons and she named them all Dave?
Well, she did. And that wasn’t a smart thing to do.
You see, when she wants one and calls out, "Yoo-Hoo!
Come into the house, Dave!" she doesn’t get one.
All twenty-three Daves of hers come on the run!
This makes things quite difficult at the McCaves'
As you can imagine, with so many Daves.
And often she wishes that, when they were born,
She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn.
And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm.
And one of them Hot-Shot. And one Sunny Jim.
And one of them Shadrack. And one of them Blinkey.
And one of them Stuffy. And one of them Stinkey.
Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face.
Another one Marvin O’Gravel Balloon Face.
And one of them Ziggy. And one Soggy Muff.
One Buffalo Bill. And one Biffalo Buff.
And one of them Sneepy. And one Weepy Weed.
And one Paris Garters. And one Harris Tweed.
And one of them Sir Michael Carmichael Zutt.
And one of them Oliver Boliver Butt.
And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate --
But she didn’t do it. And now it’s too late.
 
originally posted by Brézème:
RoussetteThere are 3 grapes known as roussette. None is altesse.

From Galet :


Pouchoulin call these old vines roussette. They are officially recorded as roussanne.
They might be the true roussette or not.
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Very interesting, thanks. I was mostly familiar with the term from Franck Peillot's altesse/roussette du Bugey.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
Heroic work, oh scribe.

Just reading it makes me feel a little bleary. And the "oh, yeah, we had that *too*" moments. It's fun to think of those lost wines.

I didn't get to talk to Julien much at all. That's really interesting about his studies.

Arnold was very brave.

I was really pleased about the Ch. Chalon. I'd bought a box of mixed vintages at auction, and had opened the ones with crappy fills, and they weren't good. This was the first one with a decent cork and I loved it.

The off-vintage Vouvray were all disappointingly good, I thought. Makes me worry about which ones I buy now.

Someone handed me a glass of the chinato with an odd facial expression but no explanation, and when I tasted it, I thought, "What odd stuff. Not really very good. I'm too busy to figure this out." So I dumped my pour in the sink and went on about my party bustle. I did notice certain guests getting out of plumb later in the party.

You didn't get any of David Lillie's old Farou Chinon? It's finally come around, lo these 20 years after he sold it.
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No, missed the Chinon. Missed a bunch of wines, I'd say probably something like ten, at least. They were coming fast and furious, especially early on.
 
originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
Please ID Buffy the Fruit-Slayer! I must acquire some.
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Alas, you know as much as I do. Just those few overheard snippets of conversation.

But someone knows...
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
Btw, "Hamster"? Seriously?
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Absolutely. She was also my homeroom teacher for two years. Stern older lady, of the old school of teaching, so I don't think anyone even knew her first name, she was always just "Madame Hamster." Which made the one-day-a-year blonde wig even more unexpected and bizarre.

Edited to add: She seems to have passed away a few years ago. And I must admit the idea that she was born in Honolulu is a bit baffling. She had a not thick but distinct French accent.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Holiday! Celebrate!Genial work. A flock of hats off.

originally posted by Chris Coad:
Vilmart & Cie Champagne 'Cour de Cuvée' 2002. Mmm, smells airy, light, mineral-apple smellies with a light vanilla-bean streak. Nervy, bright, cheerful and delicate, a charmingly graceful middleweight wine that makes me smile mysteriously to myself. I'm not the biggest fizz fan around, but this is really pure and refined stuff that has no arrogance, just confidence.
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I agree with this (though I think the evil "new" WD programming has done away with your "" in "Cur")—what a lovely surprise; so much more lithe than I would have thought, and charming in many ways.
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Did something change? When I first posted, it replaced any circumflexed character with a couple of slashes. Ch“teau, for example. Previewed fine, posted wrong.
 
Yes, something's happened to this website. Try embedding a YouTube video, for instance.

And look at my quoted words (I used HTML code to get the œ).
 
originally posted by Chris Coad:
originally posted by scottreiner:
i seem to have missed some wines from that night!
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You're not the only one!
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Yes, disconcerting. It's as though we each had our own mix-and-match experience.

Though perhaps best that way.

Chris, you may have missed many a flagon from side tables on faraway sides. Didn't try the Menu Pineau flight?
 
originally posted by Chris Coad:
No, missed the Chinon. Missed a bunch of wines, I'd say probably something like ten, at least. They were coming fast and furious, especially early on.
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Eleven. You missed the 09 Loiseau.

It looks like I missed about twenty five. A couple on purpose. But the Chinon was thankfully not one of them - the wine never fails to amaze.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by Chris Coad:
originally posted by scottreiner:
i seem to have missed some wines from that night!
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You're not the only one!
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Yes, disconcerting. It's as though we each had our own mix-and-match experience.

Though perhaps best that way.

Chris, you may have missed many a flagon from side tables on faraway sides. Didn't try the Menu Pineau flight?
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Missed that, missed the several Muscadets, missed the Farou and Baudry Chinons, probably others. On a night like this all you can do is vinous triage, save what you can and let others fall by the wayside.
 
originally posted by Chris Coad:
Eric Texier Côte-Rôtie Vielles Vignes 1999. I'm trying to juggle the dregs of the veal stew with the other, and somehow manage to spill the lardons in the bottom of my bowl into my glass. Hm, yes, very bacony. Lots of bacon. I actually have to pick the bacon out of my teeth as I'm drinking it. Whoever thought of the notion of bacon wine is a genius. Bacon makes everything better.
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I told ya'll there was bacon in the wine.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
I was really pleased about the Ch. Chalon. I'd bought a box of mixed vintages at auction, and had opened the ones with crappy fills, and they weren't good. This was the first one with a decent cork and I loved it.
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Imagine that: SFJoe going for the old yellow wine - and loving it (at least one of them).
 
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