What did you drink tonight?

originally posted by Kay Bixler:


Fatboy: recently went through it myself. Nothing serious, thankfully, hope you find the same. Just got the all clear from the surgeon and decided to celebrate with a shitty bottle of Vosne-Romanée.
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no. i meant i was drinking clos mogador in an mri machine. other spanish shit too.

it accentuated the v.a.

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Sounds like "mri machine" is the new Les Impitoyables Particle Accelerator Garnacha Tinta glass.
 
i did ask them to try correlating my amygdala activation with the c. m.

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originally posted by .sasha:
Sounds like "mri machine" is the new Les Impitoyables Particle Accelerator Garnacha Tinta glass.
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I miss giving Dressner shit about that stupid glass. And why would you want to use something that accentuates defects? The glass is worse than an MRI.
 
originally posted by VLM:
like the flashes of a native brown on the Clark's Fork (a river runs motherfucking through it bitches).
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Clark's Fork? Shit hell, that where I spent several summers fishing. We always called them "German browns," indicative of a belief that they were non-native. Brookies and Dolly Varden were the natives AFAIK.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by mark e:


I miss giving Dressner shit about that stupid glass.
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I remember once when Didier accidentally knocked it off a barrel and broke it. He was just horrified, afraid that Joe would kill him. I told Didier, "Any friend would have done the same."
 
originally posted by Todd Abrams:
2009 foillard cdp from magnum. delicious. but ever so slightly corked.
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Can a corked wine be delicious?
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Yes. At least for those I've known who are lucky enough to be blind to TCA.

As for my wines last night, Mary Elke sparkling wine -- a really wonderful Anderson Valley producer of sparkling wine, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir blanc (a still rosé), but I'm less enthusiastic about her Pinot Noirs. Followed with 1996 Allemand Chaillot -- probably the most disappointing (maybe the only disappointing) Allemand wine I've ever had. Not bad, but not good -- kind of muddy and inexpressive, and without any generosity.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by mark e:


I miss giving Dressner shit about that stupid glass.
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I remember once when Didier accidentally knocked it off a barrel and broke it. He was just horrified, afraid that Joe would kill him. I told Didier, "Any friend would have done the same."
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Hilarious. I fear he may have had a spare in his hotel room.
 
It was one of those nights. Michael was there, he can testify.

08 Vilmart Grand Cellier d'Or (I think)
08 Bouchard La Haute-Lemblé
01 Willi Schaefer Graacher Domprobst Spatlese #3
09 Peter Lauer Ayler Kupp Riesling "Kern" Fass 9
11 Overnoy Poulsard
07 Overnoy Chardonnay
07 Overnoy Chardonnay/Savagnin (ouillé)
01 Arnoux Romanée-St.Vivant
94 Vallouit Côte-Rôtie
96 Verset Cornas
96 Allemand Cornas Reynard
96 Clape Cornas
96 Fonsalette Cuvée Syrah
99 Faurie Hermitage
94 Lopez de Heredia Tondonia
89 Clos Rougeard Poyeux
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
I strangled a bunch of unicorn wines with my bare hands last night, but I took a vow of silence about them.

After that, drank totes fab '98 Chamonard with the roast chicken.
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I love that wine.
 
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
1996 Allemand Chaillot -- probably the most disappointing (maybe the only disappointing) Allemand wine I've ever had.
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In better news from Cornas, 2001 Geynale from Michel is totally brilliant tonight.
 
originally posted by .sasha:
originally posted by SFJoe:
I am hearing so much lately about '97 red Burgs.
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private offer of veritas cellar?
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Almost. One of my favorite Veritas alumni was talking them up recently. I think he was channeling Steve Verlin or something.

I haven't had any recently.

I still remember sitting at the bar next to Steve and hearing him go on and on about the '97s, how they were the wines for the ages, how great they were, & etc. Odd moment in the wine life.
 
Digging in the cellar came across a 95 Araujo syrah that I didn't know I owned. Served it with a Zuni style chicken that my wife made, 15 years had made it drinkable. I bought a case or two of this wine and sold it for a very nice profit a couple of years or so later.
 
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