What did you drink tonight?

originally posted by Marc D:
My co worker who is a big Seahawks fan bought two tickets (5K for the pair, ouch) to the game.
She is staying in Jersey City via a vrbo rental.

Any restaurants I should direct her to?

They like wine but are not geeked out over it, so maybe more for food then drinks.
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Best food is Thirty Acres on Jersey Avenue. Best pizza is Razza ($35 corkage for the table, nice small list) on Grove. Second best food/Best French is Madame Claude on the corner of Newark, Fourth and Brunswick (BYO only). Grand Sichuan on Grove St. for Sichuan Chinese (avoid the American Chinese dishes such asGeneral Tsos and get the Gui Zhou Spicy chicken, soup dumplings and tea smoked duck), New Thanh Hoai on Erie for Vietnamese (they have a parking lot). For basic American Lighthorse Tavern is good though they are better for lunch than dinner. Roman Nose has decent pastas and panini. Abbondanza Trattoria for good solid red sauce Italian. Bistro La Source is good but not as good as Madame Claude.

If they want great diner pancakes for breakfast go to The Brownstone on Jersey and Grand. Don't order any non-breakfast food there though.

Whatever you do don't let them be tempted by the very attractive restaurant called The Bistro At Grove Square. Great location, great space, lousy food.

Where in Jersey City are they staying? If they're closer to Journal Square then there are a bunch of Indian and Filipino places. If they're in the Heights there a new high end place that opened which is a pain for me to get to but is supposed to be really good.

originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by Jay Miller:
fireworks.
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Heard those, but couldn't see them.

Was there a sporting event?
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From what Marc says there's apparently some sort of falconry event occurring. I guess I owe Arnold an apology.

So that's why my chiropractor asked me if I had rented out my condo for the weekend.
 
originally posted by Jay Miller:
...some sort of falconry event occurring.

So that's why my chiropractor asked me if I had rented out my condo for the weekend.
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And he gets good money for his table under normal circumstances; think what it would go for to a bunch of bird-brains!
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by scottreiner:

12 Briords is the best young Muscadet I have ever had.
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2002 Bossard Granit rang my bells too, not that I disagree with you.
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The 2012s from Marc are special wines, maybe better than the 2002s as young wines.
 
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by scottreiner:

12 Briords is the best young Muscadet I have ever had.
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2002 Bossard Granit rang my bells too, not that I disagree with you.
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The 2012s from Marc are special wines, maybe better than the 2002s as young wines.
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I quite agree. If I weren't so afraid of the p'ox, I'd have a cellar full of them. Instead, half-full.

I think I was adequately enthusiastic from tank a year ago.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:

I quite agree. If I weren't so afraid of the p'ox, I'd have a cellar full of them. Instead, half-full.
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I bought 6 bottles of the 12 Briords with the idea of sitting on a few; I have 1 bottle left....
 
2002 Roche de Bellene Chassagne-Montrachet "Les Chenevottes" - good texture allied with ripe acid, which is a nice combination, not recognisably Chassagne but no complaints otherwise. I have a reasonably good guess which cellar this came from, and wonder why the winemaker sold it to Potel.

2002 Michel Lafarge Beaune-Greves - not the right time to broach this.

1996 Michel Lafarge Clos du Ch. des Ducs - also too early for this wine. Probably another 5-7 years?

2010 Domaine des Terres Dorees Beaujolais l'Ancien - funnily enough, this was very good straight out of the bottle. Not what I was expecting.
 
Mascarello 1995 Barolo Riserva "Monprivato Ca d'Morissio" - double-decanted 8 hours ahead, silky texture; minerally red-fruit aromas complicated by something maybe like peach?; complex flavors of rose, raspberry, sweet orange, clay, and just a faint hit of vinyl. Very satisfactory. Put the cork back in and will drink the rest tomorrow or Thursday.

ETA: As with drssouth, I was cooking with wine, too: Ch. Les Rouilleres 2011, an inexpensive AOC Bordeaux, heavily merlot and franc, slightly lactic and soft but overall correct, makes a nice pot roast.
 
The past few days
2011 Canarelli Figari Rouge: rocking with a true sense of place. This is really good.
2007 Clos Ste Magdeleine Cassis: nice tension and aromatics. Great vintage for them
2008 Clos Rougeard Poyeux: juicy, ripe fruits, drinking so well already.
1993 Domaine St Anne, Cuvee Collection: old school Bandol, dirty with good acidity. Give me more.
 
The past few days
2011 Canarelli Figari Rouge: rocking with a true sense of place. This is really good.
2007 Clos Ste Magdeleine Cassis: nice tension and aromatics. Great vintage for them
2008 Clos Rougeard Poyeux: juicy, ripe fruits, drinking so well already.
1993 Domaine St Anne, Cuvee Collection: old school Bandol, dirty with good acidity. Give me more.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Mascarello 1995 Barolo Riserva "Monprivato Ca d'Morissio" - double-decanted 8 hours ahead, silky texture; minerally red-fruit aromas complicated by something maybe like peach?; complex flavors of rose, raspberry, sweet orange, clay, and just a faint hit of vinyl. Very satisfactory. Put the cork back in and will drink the rest tomorrow or Thursday.
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Two days later: Nose is even more beautiful, more complex, and that little vinyl note is gone. However the palate now has a scratchy, grippy feel and those floral/fruity flavors are mixed with road tar (which makes them more intriguing than joyful). I think I'm going to put the rest back in the fridge and try again on Sunday.
 
originally posted by Arno Tronche:
The past few days
2008 Clos Rougeard Poyeux: juicy, ripe fruits, drinking so well already.
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Interesting. That's a surprise.

1993 Domaine St Anne, Cuvee Collection: old school Bandol, dirty with good acidity. Give me more.
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You are full of surprises.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
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.
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When that wine hits, I find it to be a singular experience. A majority of my experiences haven't been this way though.
 
hum. i spent the past few days and nights eating and drinking with swabian growers, and tasting the 13s and bottled 12s.

at a risk of shilling, i drank some amazing shit with andi knauss, holger koch and jochen beurer. i begin to think that hk's pinot noir reserve is the best unspoofed wine on the planet.

also: seriously whacky pinot gris and chasselas 11s from ziereisen -- crap wines with good stories.

heger ihringer winklerberg weissburgunder spatlese trocken 11 -- is a lot of words to write down for a wine that is a pleasant commercial weissburgunder, and no more.

bernhard huber malterdinger spatburgunder trocken 11 -- is less blocky than in other vintages. i suspect the warmth in 11 meant that there was less incentive to force things in the cellar. otherwise, see above. the junge reben is still the only wine i ever actively enjoy from huber.

laherte frères millésime 2005 extra-brut -- wtf? soft, blowsy and unfocussed. not what i expect from laherte. off bottle or whacky cuvée?

riesling trocken vom kieselstein, nahe, von-racknitz 12 -- very pretty limestone / rielsing nose. fresh. a bit girthier than i might prefer, which i suspect would make it perfect for many folks.

guy bussiere pinot val de saone 08 - i could drink my body weight in this.

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