I miss my Joe

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Sharon Bowman

Sharon Bowman
And I can bet my eye teeth that many others here miss SFJoe.

I miss running home from work and plopping on my knees on the couch next to him and kissing him. He'd say, "How are you?" I'd say, "Happy to see you."

I'd give vital organs to have one more such time.

In lieu, let's talk about things we will enjoy drinking that he would be interested to hear about.

I was very interested by the "final" version of regular 2014 Domaine de la Pépière, after a funny, fun, spritzy earlier version. The finalized version is fine, fine, fine.

Question: did Marc O. release the early one in previous vintages and I'd just never caught on, or is this a different approach?

Someone write something, pls, in any event. Too many quiet tears.
 
Once, flashing that knowing grin, he caught me with an issue of NATURE tucked into my coat pocket. Caught off guard and briefly nonplussed for being outed as a science geek, I started to deflect and digress until D'OH! it hit me. Who else would understand a science obsession better than Joe?

Then, wine was poured.

Miss him.
 
but speaking of "Muscadet", Jo Landon's VdF Melonix is very interesting addition for jaded palates like mine. Think of it as Eminence Road meets Melon.
 
Muscadet in quotes! I remember tasting that wine in ca. 2005 and finding it very strange; it's surely changed since (as has my slant).... I'd be curious to try it again.
 
He would surely be uninterested in the cheap Argentinian plonk I'm drinking tonight and would want to change the subject to corn smut.

Good. It's mine. Four fifty a bottle, from Astor.
 
It still beggars belief, and won't stop. He might have enjoyed dissecting the 2006 Anglore Traverses we opened last night. Still wearing that hippie perfume, but no longer a good time gal, at the cusp of either simply decaying or becoming a serious something else.
 
Joe would not have been particularly moved by the bottle of 2007 Leon Barral Faugeres that I opened as a BBQ wine on the 4th (he would've liked the ribs, though) but we thought that it was pretty spiffy, suave and stony with lots (but not gobs) of fruit.

Mark Lipton
 
i'll never forget the first time i met Joe. i met a whole host of folks for the first time that night. vlm, eric texier, david lille, and steve edmunds were all at a dinner in new york featuring steve's and eric's wines.
i just sat at the table and marveled at the conversation. it was kind of like watching the great tennis thats been on lately. long rallies, short rallies with deft forehands kissing the sidelines, screaming aces, precisely placed drop shots, arguments with the umpire. well, you get the idea.

the last two nights i tasted both 2012 and 2013 Coulee de Serrant, and 2013 Les Vieux Clos. to taste these exhilarating expressions of chenin with him would have been a treat.

2012 Coulee- night one, a touch hot, fascinating aromatics of fennel, lemon, river stone. on the palate some lemon curd, minereals, some herbs, more open than i would have thought.
day two-pretty much shut down. tight. very brief hints of band aid on the nose. a little troubling but it recedes as quickly as it shows up.
day three- (now) dry, a little funky, oily too. tingling acidity.
2013- night one, lush on the palate and nose. really lovely wine. wow, just incredible expression of chenin blanc. day two- closed for buisness. showing some sweetness that wasnt there the other night. still a nice drink but its closed up for now.
day three- (now) still shut down but has all the right structure and hints at complexity that will reward a long slumber in the cellar.
2013- Les Vieux Clos, okay not exhilarting but damn good. this played the shy younger sibling to it's more esteemed older family members. simple next to the coulee's but i could drink a lot of this.

many years ago, i saw some old greek men pour a little of their liquor on the ground before they drank it. i asked why, and was told it was so those who have passed can enjoy it too. i am going to go pour some of the chenin in the back yard.

i really miss joe and i didnt even know him that well. what a terrific guy. i hope he is at peace.
 
Drinking a 2013 CRB Pif tonight. Such a good wine, and I am already down to just a few bottles left. But I remember at some point Joe said it was one to drink pretty young, not to cellar, so maybe it is not so bad that I am down to a few bottles.

Bill, I was at that dinner too.
 
I'd like to think that Joe would have appreciated my improvement of an overly cloying 1997 Yquem with a generous dash of 2013 Clos des Briords (the Clos des Briords was delighttful on its own and needed no amendment to show its best). A 1997 Clos des Briords would have been very nice but for the TCA. It survived18 years of aging and a transatlantic voyage, but was struck dead by a cylinder of tree bark.
 
originally posted by Mike Evans:
I'd like to think that Joe would have appreciated my improvement of an overly cloying 1997 Yquem with a generous dash of 2013 Clos des Briords (the Clos des Briords was delighttful on its own and needed no amendment to show its best). A 1997 Clos des Briords would have been very nice but for the TCA. It survived18 years of aging and a transatlantic voyage, but was struck dead by a cylinder of tree bark.
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Such a lovely blend and a great telling of the Yquem/2013 Briords.

But you have to acknowledge that the 1997 Briords was DOA, or DOB (bottling)—not really surviving 18 years of aging and transatlantic voyage so much as blending in as non-corked, until the truth was revealed when the cork came out....
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
It still beggars belief, and won't stop. He might have enjoyed dissecting the 2006 Anglore Traverses we opened last night. Still wearing that hippie perfume, but no longer a good time gal, at the cusp of either simply decaying or becoming a serious something else.
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Real cork?
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
It still beggars belief, and won't stop. He might have enjoyed dissecting the 2006 Anglore Traverses we opened last night. Still wearing that hippie perfume, but no longer a good time gal, at the cusp of either simply decaying or becoming a serious something else.
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Real cork?
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Yes. Pfifferling says that's the year he stopped temperature controlling his semi-carbôs.
 
Tonight I pulled a 2013 Pinon Vouvray, a wine I will always associate with Joe. Green apple with a little mango and mountain stream slate, it's a bright, nimble, and refreshing wine that makes me happy, with a lingering tartness that is both welcome and appropriate for the memories.
 
That is a happy note.

I've been in the key of Muscadet lately, with a stellar magnum of 2010 Domaine de la Pépière "4" yesterday at Ten Bells, in celebration of a nice wine friend's birthday. Wine was lithe but with stuffing, if that makes sense.
 
no wine to hand right now, but enjoying some Darjeeling at Julius Meinl as I await a showing of The Third Man.

I do not know if any of that might have appealed to Joe, but I hope it might have. His posts on the Disorderly were always urbane, thoughtful, delightful and I miss them.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
That is a happy note.

I've been in the key of Muscadet lately, with a stellar magnum of 2010 Domaine de la Pépière "4" yesterday at Ten Bells, in celebration of a nice wine friend's birthday. Wine was lithe but with stuffing, if that makes sense.
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It makes sense to me, and I appreciate the note as I've yet to try a Quatre.
 
originally posted by Tristan Welles:
no wine to hand right now, but enjoying some Darjeeling at Julius Meinl as I await a showing of The Third Man.

I do not know if any of that might have appealed to Joe, but I hope it might have. His posts on the Disorderly were always urbane, thoughtful, delightful and I miss them.
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Nice - I'm going to try to hit that show while it's at Music Box. I'm not sure I knew you were in Chicago, Tristan.
 
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