What are you going to drink tomorrow night?

[Chris Coad]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by Kay Bixler:

originally posted by Karen Goetz:
Azay-le-Rideau

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Hey, hey, lookit chu! That sounds fine, indeed, and is a good reason to fuss.

...Otherwise, there might be something coming down the pike from Azay-le-Rideau later this week, but I will just knock on wood for the time being.

Wonderfully enough, I pulled my last of two precious Robert Denis, 1995 Touraine Azay-Le-Rideau, Vignes de la Gaillarderie out of my cellar after holding on to it since forever. Very curious to see how it is.

One of my heroes.

Karen, my guess is nowhere near ready. The few I've tasted over recent years have been evolving at a glacial pace.

That's one of the "50 year wines", right?

Denis made wines for generations still unborn.

 

[Karen Goetz]

originally posted by Kay Bixler:

originally posted by Karen Goetz:
Azay-le-Rideau

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Hey, hey, lookit chu! That sounds fine, indeed, and is a good reason to fuss.

...Otherwise, there might be something coming down the pike from Azay-le-Rideau later this week, but I will just knock on wood for the time being.

Wonderfully enough, I pulled my last of two precious Robert Denis, 1995 Touraine Azay-Le-Rideau, Vignes de la Gaillarderie out of my cellar after holding on to it since forever. Very curious to see how it is.

One of my heroes.

Karen, my guess is nowhere near ready. The few I've tasted over recent years have been evolving at a glacial pace.

Kay (and Chris),

Yeah, instead of opening, I'll post a note from the first bottle I opened a few years ago... In the meantime. This one has been driving me crazy for about a year. I'll see if I can wait more on this last bottle. On the other hand, I'd like to drink it while I'm still alive.

 

[Kay Bixler]

originally posted by Karen Goetz:
I'd like to drink it while I'm still alive.

Such a sense of entitlement!

 

[Cole Kendall]

originally posted by JasonA:

Yep, Richman - fixed it. This guy:

Is he still in love with the bank teller?

 

[Brian C]

originally posted by Marc D:

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Hey, hey, lookit chu! That sounds fine, indeed, and is a good reason to fuss.

I'm headed out in a bit to Rebelle for a wine dinner with Hervé Souhaut, including older vintages of Ste-Epine, which is always a lovely wine.

I remember the first time I met the guy, at Valaire, and was startled by his lack of Ardèche accent. Turns out he's Parisian and used to be a philosophy professor. But he learned the winemaking thing through Dard & Ribo, so there is indeed that.

Otherwise, there might be something coming down the pike from Azay-le-Rideau later this week, but I will just knock on wood for the time being.

I've been enjoying Souhaut's '14 Gamay a lot lately. That dinner sounds like fun.

I have the two '14 Pinon Vouvray (couldn't find the Deronnieres) and Salvo Foti Etna Rosso '13 planned for later this week

That Foti is something special.

 

[Chris Coad]

originally posted by Karen Goetz:

originally posted by Kay Bixler:

originally posted by Karen Goetz:
Azay-le-Rideau

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Hey, hey, lookit chu! That sounds fine, indeed, and is a good reason to fuss.

...Otherwise, there might be something coming down the pike from Azay-le-Rideau later this week, but I will just knock on wood for the time being.

Wonderfully enough, I pulled my last of two precious Robert Denis, 1995 Touraine Azay-Le-Rideau, Vignes de la Gaillarderie out of my cellar after holding on to it since forever. Very curious to see how it is.

One of my heroes.

Karen, my guess is nowhere near ready. The few I've tasted over recent years have been evolving at a glacial pace.

Kay (and Chris),

Yeah, instead of opening, I'll post a note from the first bottle I opened a few years ago... In the meantime. This one has been driving me crazy for about a year. I'll see if I can wait more on this last bottle. On the other hand, I'd like to drink it while I'm still alive.

Had the '95 and '96 demisec tonight. Both were delicious; my colleagues favored the slightly lighter, more nuanced '95, I was bowled over by the slightly riper, more lush '96.

And yes, I use "lush" in the context of Denis and Azay-le-Rideau. But the wines were both far more friendly, less cranky, and less sulfurous than I'd have expected. The light hint of sugar in both may have been critical.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by Chris Coad:

originally posted by Karen Goetz:

originally posted by Kay Bixler:

originally posted by Karen Goetz:
Azay-le-Rideau

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Hey, hey, lookit chu! That sounds fine, indeed, and is a good reason to fuss.

...Otherwise, there might be something coming down the pike from Azay-le-Rideau later this week, but I will just knock on wood for the time being.

Wonderfully enough, I pulled my last of two precious Robert Denis, 1995 Touraine Azay-Le-Rideau, Vignes de la Gaillarderie out of my cellar after holding on to it since forever. Very curious to see how it is.

One of my heroes.

Karen, my guess is nowhere near ready. The few I've tasted over recent years have been evolving at a glacial pace.

Kay (and Chris),

Yeah, instead of opening, I'll post a note from the first bottle I opened a few years ago... In the meantime. This one has been driving me crazy for about a year. I'll see if I can wait more on this last bottle. On the other hand, I'd like to drink it while I'm still alive.

Had the '95 and '96 demisec tonight. Both were delicious; my colleagues favored the slightly lighter, more nuanced '95, I was bowled over by the slightly riper, more lush '96.

And yes, I use "lush" in the context of Denis and Azay-le-Rideau. But the wines were both far more friendly, less cranky, and less sulfurous than I'd have expected. The light hint of sugar in both may have been critical.

Do as I say, not as I do, eh, Mr. C?

 

[Chris Coad]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by Chris Coad:

originally posted by Karen Goetz:

originally posted by Kay Bixler:

originally posted by Karen Goetz:
Azay-le-Rideau

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Hey, hey, lookit chu! That sounds fine, indeed, and is a good reason to fuss.

...Otherwise, there might be something coming down the pike from Azay-le-Rideau later this week, but I will just knock on wood for the time being.

Wonderfully enough, I pulled my last of two precious Robert Denis, 1995 Touraine Azay-Le-Rideau, Vignes de la Gaillarderie out of my cellar after holding on to it since forever. Very curious to see how it is.

One of my heroes.

Karen, my guess is nowhere near ready. The few I've tasted over recent years have been evolving at a glacial pace.

Kay (and Chris),

Yeah, instead of opening, I'll post a note from the first bottle I opened a few years ago... In the meantime. This one has been driving me crazy for about a year. I'll see if I can wait more on this last bottle. On the other hand, I'd like to drink it while I'm still alive.

Had the '95 and '96 demisec tonight. Both were delicious; my colleagues favored the slightly lighter, more nuanced '95, I was bowled over by the slightly riper, more lush '96.

And yes, I use "lush" in the context of Denis and Azay-le-Rideau. But the wines were both far more friendly, less cranky, and less sulfurous than I'd have expected. The light hint of sugar in both may have been critical.

Do as I say, not as I do, eh, Mr. C?

Do both, please.

 

[Karen Goetz]

originally posted by Kay Bixler:

originally posted by Karen Goetz:
I'd like to drink it while I'm still alive.

Such a sense of entitlement!

Ah, yes, I do indulge, don't I? The alternative is to have you smash the bottle over my grave, but I'm aiming at 30 more years so maybe you should drink it for me at that point. I will be jealous.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Karen Goetz:

originally posted by Kay Bixler:

originally posted by Karen Goetz:
Azay-le-Rideau

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Hey, hey, lookit chu! That sounds fine, indeed, and is a good reason to fuss.

...Otherwise, there might be something coming down the pike from Azay-le-Rideau later this week, but I will just knock on wood for the time being.

Wonderfully enough, I pulled my last of two precious Robert Denis, 1995 Touraine Azay-Le-Rideau, Vignes de la Gaillarderie out of my cellar after holding on to it since forever. Very curious to see how it is.

One of my heroes.

Karen, my guess is nowhere near ready. The few I've tasted over recent years have been evolving at a glacial pace.

Kay (and Chris),

Yeah, instead of opening, I'll post a note from the first bottle I opened a few years ago... In the meantime. This one has been driving me crazy for about a year. I'll see if I can wait more on this last bottle. On the other hand, I'd like to drink it while I'm still alive.

I agree. It's much better to drink stuff when you're alive than after you're dead.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

originally posted by Karen Goetz:

originally posted by Kay Bixler:

originally posted by Karen Goetz:
Azay-le-Rideau

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Hey, hey, lookit chu! That sounds fine, indeed, and is a good reason to fuss.

...Otherwise, there might be something coming down the pike from Azay-le-Rideau later this week, but I will just knock on wood for the time being.

Wonderfully enough, I pulled my last of two precious Robert Denis, 1995 Touraine Azay-Le-Rideau, Vignes de la Gaillarderie out of my cellar after holding on to it since forever. Very curious to see how it is.

One of my heroes.

Karen, my guess is nowhere near ready. The few I've tasted over recent years have been evolving at a glacial pace.

Kay (and Chris),

Yeah, instead of opening, I'll post a note from the first bottle I opened a few years ago... In the meantime. This one has been driving me crazy for about a year. I'll see if I can wait more on this last bottle. On the other hand, I'd like to drink it while I'm still alive.

I agree. It's much better to drink stuff when you're alive than after you're dead.

How can one know?

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

Well, most notions of a next life involve it being non-material, which would rather make drinking difficult and certainly less satisfying. I suppose if we are resurrected in the body, we could drink stuff after we're dead. But since that only happens at the sound of the last trumpet, I expect even the wine in question will have gone over the hill and, anyway, at the last trumpet, both the hill and the things going over it will be fairly well worked over.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
I agree. It's much better to drink stuff when you're alive than after you're dead.

How can one know?

I imagine teh fatsink pours directly into the mouths of the damned.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

All mere speculation.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

But what if a sinner liked Burgundy that Fatboy did not? Indeed, if disagreeing with Fatboy about Burgundy, is itself a sin, then all those sinners would be rewarded in hell for being miscreants.

 

[MarkS]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
But what if a sinner liked Burgundy that Fatboy did not? Indeed, if disagreeing with Fatboy about Burgundy, is itself a sin, then all those sinners would be rewarded in hell for being miscreants.

Did Fatboy bite the big 7?

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

Assuming that biting the big 7 is a new locution for biting the bullet that I am not aware of, not that I know of. Hypotheticals are generally not posed in the present tense. Hence the past tense in the first sentence.

 

[Jay Miller]

I'll be drinking the same thing I've been drinking for the last week and a half. Cough syrup.

Hopefully the antibiotics I just started will have a beneficial effect.

How can I work on reducing wine in storage if I can't drink anything?

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Teh Fatsink.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

originally posted by Jay Miller:
I'll be drinking the same thing I've been drinking for the last week and a half. Cough syrup.

Hopefully the antibiotics I just started will have a beneficial effect.

Lots of people are getting felled by something going around. I also spent ten days unwell. But I think it was a virus. How do you know antibiotics will help?

Hope you feel better soon.