Navigating family eating holidays

originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Michael Lewis:
When we visit my in-laws for Thanksgiving, it is usually Burgundy that we drink. Needless to say, we usually visit my in-laws.
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I've usually spent Thanksgiving with friends as my family is in Texas and Montana, so it's a free for all from Bourg to Barolo to Foillard.

This year, my GFs parents are in town with us and her dad brought mags of Hudelot-Noellot Chambolle and Lambrays Caillerets. I'm hoping they become in-laws...
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Wow!
The wine and the sentiment.
Best, Jim
 
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Michael Lewis:
When we visit my in-laws for Thanksgiving, it is usually Burgundy that we drink. Needless to say, we usually visit my in-laws.
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I've usually spent Thanksgiving with friends as my family is in Texas and Montana, so it's a free for all from Bourg to Barolo to Foillard.

This year, my GFs parents are in town with us and her dad brought mags of Hudelot-Noellot Chambolle and Lambrays Caillerets. I'm hoping they become in-laws...
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Officially, I cannot condone a marriage based on the in-laws' wine cellar. But just between you and me and everyone else reading this, hurry up and seal the deal!
 
My mother-in-law pre-games and won't abide the idea of Beaujolais or Muscadet. I sometimes decant and hide the bottles. My wife and I are usually busy cooking at Thanksgiving anyhow so the wine becomes less central. At Christmas, we get more creative - but the wine does feel wasted on my brother, who doesn't finish his glass and seems to prefer Coke. And my Dad has this tendency of downing his glass like a vodka shot...
 
So, mirabile dictu, my brother- and sis-in-law, the doctors, have deputized us to bring wine to Thanksgiving dinner. Shopping locally has produced bottles of Pierre Moncuit BdB, Nigl
GV, Commaderie de Peyrassole Rosé and Chave Offerus. With luck that'll cover all tastes. As a reward, I also purchased '11 Brezeme to bring back home.

Mark Lipton
 
Tonight, we had a traditional (well, traditional for us) pre-Thanksgiving seafood dinner. And with it, Pinon 2014 Vouvray "Deronnieres": chalky, though not entirely so... there are other minerally flavors flecked through, just the very slightest bit off-dry, this nearly is too lemony, but glurp, and it's gone.
 
originally posted by MLipton:
So, mirabile dictu, my brother- and sis-in-law, the doctors, have deputized us to bring wine to Thanksgiving dinner. Shopping locally has produced bottles of Pierre Moncuit BdB, Nigl
GV, Commaderie de Peyrassole Rosé and Chave Offerus. With luck that'll cover all tastes. As a reward, I also purchased '11 Brezeme to bring back home.

Mark Lipton
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Woo hoo! That's a mitzvah, from what I've been told.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Pinon 2014 Vouvray "Deronnieres": chalky, though not entirely so... there are other minerally flavors flecked through, just the very slightest bit off-dry, this nearly is too lemony, but glurp, and it's gone.
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I've (aside from the now considered corked bottle) loved this wine since discovering it a few months ago. Agree with the "where did it go?" assessment. And the it's-different-than-other-Vouvrays-but-how dealie. Have to sit down with it a bit, if it'll stay a little.
 
Nice wine. Better with air and certainly very delicious for those who like Chamonard, although nothing spectacular at the moment. I had a few bottles over the past few months and will wait on the rest for a while.
 
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