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What are you drinking while the US TV shows the very odd version of the history of the UK that is the opening of the Games?

I didn't plan ahead to chill a Pol Roger Winston Churchill, but wish I had.
 
Sitting with my olmypiaholic wife, having lost control of the remote for the next couple weeks, I sip Domaine Abatuccci Cuvée Faustine Ajaccio blanc. Delicious.
 
originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:
Sitting with my olmypiaholic wife, having lost control of the remote for the next couple weeks, I sip Domaine Abatuccci Cuvée Faustine Ajaccio blanc. Delicious.
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How perfect a counterpoint. Corsican wine in exile.
 
On my table is Ar Pe Pe 1999 Sasella "Rocce Rosso", decanted 6.5 hours. Soon to share that table with roasted red peppers and skirt steak. (A few remaining kalamatas did not make it to the table.)
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
On my table is Ar Pe Pe 1999 Sasella "Rocce Rosso", decanted 6.5 hours. Soon to share that table with roasted red peppers and skirt steak. (A few remaining kalamatas did not make it to the table.)
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That sounds incredibley delicious.
 
Occhipinti Siccagno Nero D' Avola 2009, seemed out of sorts but probably a bad food match with garlicky pizza. Almost opened the Abbatucci rosso, must be an island night.
 
1994 Domaine La Casenove Cuvée Commandant François Jaubert for no political reason other than the Hillary-influenced reason of that it was there. Hideously overpriced on initial release (I know, I sold scads of it back then), this blend of 30% Carignan, 30% Syrah, 30% Grenache Noir, and 10% Mourvedre has somehow found room for another 20% or so of brettanomyces. This was one of the first fancy super-Côtes du Roussillons and I recall it being pretty big and oaky/frooty with just a smidgeon of funk when it first came out. This was just about the time that the Languedoc wines made their first onslaught into the USA and the Cuvée Jaubert was a little easier to get a grasp of if your frame of reference was from California. It showed well on release but we urged everyone to put some away for a rainy day because it would only improve in the cellar.

Well, as you know, it never rains in California so some of this stuff has been cellared a little past what even I, an optimist in the extreme, might have recommended. Fortunately, everything about this wine has resolved really nicely, but that brett thing gets in the way a bit. The 14.5% alcohol level is not a problem when served a little above cellar temperature (similar to great Chateauneuf-du-Pape rather than Mollydooker) and it's still pretty lively. Worth drinking if you have any, and an okay accompaniment to the Olympics if I were watching them. However, it's a great accompaniment to "Formula 1 Debrief".

-Eden (feels odd not spraying Champagne around the room while watching this show)
 
originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
On my table is Ar Pe Pe 1999 Sasella "Rocce Rosso", decanted 6.5 hours. Soon to share that table with roasted red peppers and skirt steak. (A few remaining kalamatas did not make it to the table.)
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That sounds incredibley delicious.
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It isn't Barolo. The core of this is a dark, maybe muddled (dark, mashed, slightly unfocused) cherry. But the rest of the package is good, earthy nebbiolo. The salt and blood in the steak picks up something in the wine; the peppers are too strong.

I go back and forth on whether the lighting ceremony was deficient because no one person was given the responsibility.

But I am entirely sure that the use of Pink Floyd's "Eclipse" -- a song about madness -- demonstrates that nobody looks at words or meaning anymore. (Mind you, I love the song and the music but it's not appropriate in this context.)
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

But I am entirely sure that the use of Pink Floyd's "Eclipse" -- a song about madness -- demonstrates that nobody looks at words or meaning anymore. (Mind you, I love the song and the music but it's not appropriate in this context.)
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Given the ceremony, I'd say it was absolutely appropriate.
 
01 Coudoulet - surprisingly advanced. But good.

Wow, this is sort of like other boards. Not sure what I think.
 
Here in the hinterlands of la France profonde, we have no TV. Can someone describe the version of British history I missed?

While I'm at it, do any French historians (Cliff, this means you) know who Rosette d'Arey is? She would have been an early or first mistress of Louis XV if she's traceable. Let's see if this causes thread drift.
 
originally posted by Zachary Ross:
Didn't watch; had gin and tonics anyway (Plymouth).
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After the celebration of the National Health Service (where was the TV footage of Romney's reaction to that?) and Mary Poppins defeating Lord Valdemort, I retreated to the comfort of dinner and a bottle of 1987 LdH Tondonia Gran Reserva blanco; maybe the best showing of that wine I have had. All the usual complexity and hints of nuts that come with the oxidative profile, but this bottle was a bit brighter with more freshness and precision in its balance of fruit and wet minerality with the oxidative notes than i recall from other bottles.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Here in the hinterlands of la France profonde, we have no TV.
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If you're on this board then you have internet, which means you have TV.
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I take it you've never tried to connect to one of the usual computer links to TV stations in Europe.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
I take it you've never tried to connect to one of the usual computer links to TV stations in Europe.
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I don't have a television set either, so I do it all the time from my home in Nyc without problems (although mainly to watch tennis).
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
I take it you've never tried to connect to one of the usual computer links to TV stations in Europe.
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I don't have a television set either, so I do it all the time from my home in Nyc without problems (although mainly to watch tennis).
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I said in Europe. All those stations you watch in NYC or the US are blocked when you're out of the country.
 
Are there Olympics going on? Are they in London, England or London, Ontario? No one tells me anything.

Anyway, we were drinking the 2010 Domaine de Roally Vire-Clesse last night. Would have been a fine match with the scallops I had planned but as those were inedible they were a so-so match with some quickly defrosted shrimp.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Here in the hinterlands of la France profonde, we have no TV. Can someone describe the version of British history I missed?

While I'm at it, do any French historians (Cliff, this means you) know who Rosette d'Arey is? She would have been an early or first mistress of Louis XV if she's traceable. Let's see if this causes thread drift.
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I am in New York profonde and missed the glory, as well. But a trio of wines from the Jura were a consolation.

I just Googled "Rosette d'Arey" and found only one reference, as a comparison in a Eugène Sue novel to say how much someone loved his mistress. He purports that Louis XV was only faithful to Rosette d'Arey, so it must have been a commonplace at one time.
 
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