Kermit Lynch now importing Boxler; Grand Cru Riesling is $75 a bottle retail

[Tristan Welles]

originally posted by Yixin:
For me, what characterises Boxler is the sense of gentleness without sacrificing the natural tension of Alsatian wines.

Well said.

 

[Yixin]

I'll like to add that the wines are cheaper in Singapore.

 

[SFJoe]

originally posted by Brad Kane:

I'm surprised you didn't end up in Williamsburg, you hipster, you.

I'll meet you in Greenpoint.

 

[SFJoe]

originally posted by Claude Kolm:
(I don't recall that brand name t-shirts were popular much before then).

 

[Claude Kolm]

originally posted by SFJoe:

originally posted by Claude Kolm:
(I don't recall that brand name t-shirts were popular much before then).

I never knew that Lucien Peyraud sported a beard at one time!

 

[robert ames]

originally posted by VLM:
Perret too. Is he just taking over the Chadderdon book? Mascarello must be next, I assume.

bartolo seems to be safely in the rare wine company book.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

Well, my first Tempiers were from he 80s and I have never been a forger of new wine territories. If I knew about it, so did any wine geek on the East coast, I'll bet.

 

[MarkS]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Well, my first Tempiers were from he 80s and I have never been a forger of new wine territories. If I knew about it, so did any wine geek on the East coast, I'll bet.

Exactly. If Tempier was here in Upstate NY during the mid-80's, I'm pretty sure it was as common as sliced Wonder bread.

 

[Claude Kolm]

I wasn't a math major for nothing. The 1970s and the early 1980s came before the mid-1980s.

 

[Brad Kane]

originally posted by Claude Kolm:
I wasn't a math major for nothing. The 1970s and the early 1980s came before the mid-1980s.

Yes, but still way before the wine boom of the mid-'90s, which changed everything.

 

[VLM]

originally posted by robert ames:

originally posted by VLM:
Perret too. Is he just taking over the Chadderdon book? Mascarello must be next, I assume.

bartolo seems to be safely in the rare wine company book.

It's hard to suss out what Rare represents nationally and what they bring into just CA or the west coast. We've run into that confusion trying to get stuff here in NC.

Rare is the registered importer for G. Mascarello in our market, but not B. Mascarello.

 

[VLM]

originally posted by Claude Kolm:

originally posted by VLM:

originally posted by Yixin:
They have a good range, bar one or two oddities. I import Boxler, of course.

Do you import Christine Ferber confiture as well?

Do you import pim's confiture?

What is that?

 

[VLM]

originally posted by Tristan Welles:

originally posted by VLM:

originally posted by Tristan Welles:
It was only a matter of time before Lynch found his new Z-H. Hopefully Boxler will not develop the "powerful" profile that afflicted Z-H while in the hands of marketing glibness.

Boxler wines are plenty ripe given vintage conditions.

I have never noted the out-of-balance characteristics in Boxler -- even in ripe vintages -- that bedeviled some Z-H offerings.

The Z-H power, or over-ripeness, or luscious quality (call it what you will) was completely unpredictable to me. About 1/3 of my bottles would be atypical of what I expected from Alsatian wines. 2/3s could be wonderful or merely very good. I never found a pattern (grape type, vintage, vineyard, late harvest, SGN, all that) and eventually moved my purchases to Boxler, Weinbach, Trimbach et al. Kermit's tariff was a compounding problem.

Well, I've had some that pushed the edge for me, but generally speaking, almost all Boxler wines are at least good, to paraphrase a certain earth bound Norse demi-god, and I've yet to have a riesling that isn't at least great on up to sublime.

 

[VLM]

originally posted by Yixin:
I'll like to add that the wines are cheaper in Singapore.

Do you ship to NC?

 

[Yixin]

originally posted by VLM:

originally posted by Claude Kolm:

originally posted by VLM:

originally posted by Yixin:
They have a good range, bar one or two oddities. I import Boxler, of course.

Do you import Christine Ferber confiture as well?

Do you import pim's confiture?

What is that?

Unfermented, chaptalised fruit from NoCal. Not your thing, monkey.

 

[Claude Kolm]

originally posted by VLM:

originally posted by Claude Kolm:

originally posted by VLM:

originally posted by Yixin:
They have a good range, bar one or two oddities. I import Boxler, of course.

Do you import Christine Ferber confiture as well?

Do you import pim's confiture?

What is that?

Mutual friend who makes extraordinary jams: http://shop.chezpim.com/

 

[Andrew Zachary]

originally posted by Claude Kolm:

originally posted by VLM:

originally posted by Claude Kolm:

originally posted by VLM:

originally posted by Yixin:
They have a good range, bar one or two oddities. I import Boxler, of course.

Do you import Christine Ferber confiture as well?

Do you import pim's confiture?

What is that?

Mutual friend who makes extraordinary jams: http://shop.chezpim.com/

She hasn't put anything up on her website since last year. Is she still making jams? The few I tried were great.

 

[Claude Kolm]

originally posted by Andrew Zachary:

originally posted by Claude Kolm:

originally posted by VLM:

originally posted by Claude Kolm:

originally posted by VLM:

originally posted by Yixin:
They have a good range, bar one or two oddities. I import Boxler, of course.

Do you import Christine Ferber confiture as well?

Do you import pim's confiture?

What is that?

Mutual friend who makes extraordinary jams: http://shop.chezpim.com/

She hasn't put anything up on her website since last year. Is she still making jams? The few I tried were great.

She has a new project that she's been busy working on, so she may have at least temporarily stopped with the jams.

 

[Yixin]

She's still making jams.

 

[VLM]

Does anyone in SF retail these jams? I'll pick some up.