What did you drink tonight?

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
belongs in a borstal.
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Pretty good even if your first language were English. I had to look that one up.

As for drinking last night, while cooking short-ribs last night (for dinner tonight), I drank the half of the bottle of '12 C. Ducroux "Prologue" that didn't go into deglazing the browning skillet and a few glasses from a magnum of '11 La Piece de la Veuve (old vine Remorantin by Frantz Saumon) that got a bit lost in the forest of nouveaux California wines (mostly quite excellent, but my advice is skip the Arnot-Roberts GV and the 1971 C. Krug Cab.Sauv.) on Friday night. (Perhaps Robert will offer some observations on some of the other ones.)

The Prologue is just so delicious and delightful; and now with a touch of age it has nice complexity without sacrificing the purity of its core of fruit.

And I have loved every glass of the '11 Piece de la Veuve I've had; this one is no different and benefitted from the additional air. Maybe too minerally or acidic for some, but i find it riveting and transporting. When i drink it i feel like i am in a quiet forest by a small, clear stream where you can see the polished stones under the water and on the bank.
 
GTK the GV is TBS (to be skipped), since I would have tried it, having liked everything else AR makes (except, perhaps, the CS). The rest sounds so lovely.
 
originally posted by MLipton:
A badly corked bottle of Occhipinti Frappato. Blech!

Mark Lipton
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Shame, that; this can be such a lovely wine - seriously. I have one '10 left somewhere and will drink it once I emerge from my present hiatus.
 
originally posted by Steve Guattery:
I learned the term years ago from the film "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner."
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That title (never have seen it) always makes me think of Peter Handke's "The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick."

/massive thread drift
 
Pepiere 2012 Muscadet "Clisson" is just great tonight. A little more minerally than the '14 Briords at the cellar recently, and the texture a little more grabby, but just as pure and nicely ripe. A fine fine drink with a fancy baked ziti with shrimp.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by Steve Guattery:
I learned the term years ago from the film "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner."
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That title (never have seen it) always makes me think of Peter Handke's "The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick."

/massive thread drift
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Both a novella by Alan Sillitoe and a movie. The one worth reading and the other worth watching. There are certain similarities in attitude with the Handke novel, though distant ones since the Handke title is more allusive.
 
The 2011 JJ Christoffel Urziger Wurzgarten Spatlese Trocken Alte Reben is such an austere, bare, steel rod of a riesling. Severe, firm, rigid, poised, with a dancing acidic tingle to give it intensity. But so spare.

That said, I do not want to imply that this is a non-wine wine. There is something there. I am just not sure what it is. If I close my eyes and get fanciful, I can almost conjure the fruit berry salad we know from off-dry UW. And a couple of days of air helps in that regard. Although still, it remains austere and bare.

Interesting and not bad. Certainly fine at the dinner table for a glass or two. But almost completely identical to a bottle from summer 2013. I have no idea what the future holds, but I have no more and will probably never find out.
 
Dom. Cheze 2013 St-Joseph "Cuvée des Anges" is from old vines on granitic soils; young, crisp, pure, medium weight and viscosity, blue fruits and wet black earth; excellent with Veal Milanese and mushroom ragout
 
Ira graciously tasted me on Domaine Roulot 2013(?) Monthélie Blanc 1er "Champ Fulliot". Blind, this was either some crazy Italian varietal or chardonnay grown in a skimpy place. As I am not a fan of big lush chardonnay this was an unexpected pleasure: it had a passing resemblance to Chablis - steely, stony, bright - but without the chalk and seashell aspect.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
The 2011 JJ Christoffel Urziger Wurzgarten Spatlese Trocken Alte Reben is such an austere, bare, steel rod of a riesling. Severe, firm, rigid, poised, with a dancing acidic tingle to give it intensity. But so spare.

That said, I do not want to imply that this is a non-wine wine. There is something there. I am just not sure what it is. If I close my eyes and get fanciful, I can almost conjure the fruit berry salad we know from off-dry UW. And a couple of days of air helps in that regard. Although still, it remains austere and bare.

Interesting and not bad. Certainly fine at the dinner table for a glass or two. But almost completely identical to a bottle from summer 2013. I have no idea what the future holds, but I have no more and will probably never find out.
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I am all for ambiguity and ambivalence, but this left me feeling down.
 
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