Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
The F train was skipping, the oven was out, but we all made it to Roosevelt Island to festivize with Chris and Lisa in honor of Slaton's bumming around NYC a bit. A visit to Roosevelt Island is a rare gem and something not many city natives have ever experienced, ever.
Those of us who have done do sometimes end up with a split lip, or wake up in Coney Island, or both. But this time, we just ate delicious fried chicken and sole with capers and capered about. There was a Riesling that is not included in my notes, which I hope some may fill in.
2005 Foreau Brut - I arrive from a dizzying way out the other side of Queens, since the F train is skipping R.I. in that direction. I arrive to cats! Friends! Fried chicken! Wines! And decisions: first this. Hey, that's a nice sparkler. I search nasally and palately in vain for some kind of 2005 overripeness; it's actually totally lovely, and Chris and I reminisce about my early dislike of Vouvray bubbles, from years prior. Oh, right, it was Pinon Rosé. My mistake at the time, 'cause I'm a convert.
2012 Ruppert-Leroy "Fosse-Grely" Autrement - This, from a producer I've only had a couple of times, was quite the friend of CC fried chicken. All unsulfured pinot noir, very pinot noir. But racy; lean, pinot-y with a fantastic backbone.
2002 Taittinger Comtes de Champagne - Fancy times are now clearly afoot, and this had breeding, but not obnoxious of same. Could be eaten standing with fried chicken, or milling about at a fancier juncture, at which ladies aren't wearing mushroom-emblazoned skirts mocked by the guest of honor.
2010 François Cotat Rosé - Hear me out. I double-decanted this, and it was still ultra-closed upon arrival. We swished and put it in the fridge (I believe it was Coad doing the swishing); a bit later, it was still g-d'd closed. But then after much time and air, and a bit of warmth, it began to morph into something savory and good. Hold, for the love of gad.
2010 Domaine de l'Arlot NSG Clos de L’Arlot (375ml) - Whee for half-bottles of tasty burgundy. A bit closed, but also with good stuffing.
1999 Château Musar (375ml) - Whee for delicious Musar with its attractive V.A. This was lovely, just a delight.
1993 Faiveley Corton (which climat?) - A roller-coaster of a wine. It was delicious old Burgundy, which whooooooooo went down a hill, but then came back up. Fantastic.
2007 Romeo del Castello Vigo - Our Musar's lean partner in crime. It had the V.A. relationship, but unfortunately was kind of short and uncompelling in the end. First vintage of this wine; I will be curious to check back in on later vintages, from a young vigneronne in Sicily.
2013 Eminence Road Farm Winery "Elizabeth's Vineyard" Pinot Noir - Now "Game of Thrones" began to loom, and I moored myself to this fantastic Eminence Road showing. Ripe year of lovely PN, what else can one say? Except I was holding one or two cats by this point.
2012 C&P Breton "Clos Sénéchal" - zzz, TV? Cats? Hullo?
I went home, and was sorry to have blasted our hosts with kitchen light as I scrubbed my dish of potato gratin before leaving. Was it just a Coad-style performance? There was no cauliflower; continuity had to be established.
Those of us who have done do sometimes end up with a split lip, or wake up in Coney Island, or both. But this time, we just ate delicious fried chicken and sole with capers and capered about. There was a Riesling that is not included in my notes, which I hope some may fill in.
2005 Foreau Brut - I arrive from a dizzying way out the other side of Queens, since the F train is skipping R.I. in that direction. I arrive to cats! Friends! Fried chicken! Wines! And decisions: first this. Hey, that's a nice sparkler. I search nasally and palately in vain for some kind of 2005 overripeness; it's actually totally lovely, and Chris and I reminisce about my early dislike of Vouvray bubbles, from years prior. Oh, right, it was Pinon Rosé. My mistake at the time, 'cause I'm a convert.
2012 Ruppert-Leroy "Fosse-Grely" Autrement - This, from a producer I've only had a couple of times, was quite the friend of CC fried chicken. All unsulfured pinot noir, very pinot noir. But racy; lean, pinot-y with a fantastic backbone.
2002 Taittinger Comtes de Champagne - Fancy times are now clearly afoot, and this had breeding, but not obnoxious of same. Could be eaten standing with fried chicken, or milling about at a fancier juncture, at which ladies aren't wearing mushroom-emblazoned skirts mocked by the guest of honor.
2010 François Cotat Rosé - Hear me out. I double-decanted this, and it was still ultra-closed upon arrival. We swished and put it in the fridge (I believe it was Coad doing the swishing); a bit later, it was still g-d'd closed. But then after much time and air, and a bit of warmth, it began to morph into something savory and good. Hold, for the love of gad.
2010 Domaine de l'Arlot NSG Clos de L’Arlot (375ml) - Whee for half-bottles of tasty burgundy. A bit closed, but also with good stuffing.
1999 Château Musar (375ml) - Whee for delicious Musar with its attractive V.A. This was lovely, just a delight.
1993 Faiveley Corton (which climat?) - A roller-coaster of a wine. It was delicious old Burgundy, which whooooooooo went down a hill, but then came back up. Fantastic.
2007 Romeo del Castello Vigo - Our Musar's lean partner in crime. It had the V.A. relationship, but unfortunately was kind of short and uncompelling in the end. First vintage of this wine; I will be curious to check back in on later vintages, from a young vigneronne in Sicily.
2013 Eminence Road Farm Winery "Elizabeth's Vineyard" Pinot Noir - Now "Game of Thrones" began to loom, and I moored myself to this fantastic Eminence Road showing. Ripe year of lovely PN, what else can one say? Except I was holding one or two cats by this point.
2012 C&P Breton "Clos Sénéchal" - zzz, TV? Cats? Hullo?
I went home, and was sorry to have blasted our hosts with kitchen light as I scrubbed my dish of potato gratin before leaving. Was it just a Coad-style performance? There was no cauliflower; continuity had to be established.
