report from the Seder-front

[kirk wallace]

just 2 wines this year:

2005 Huet Petillant not much fizz left and a ripe example of this wine, but just enough acidity to keep it interesting. the richness and yellow skin fruit profile made it a crowd pleaser. Surprisingly good with maror & charoseth. And even ok with gefilte fish -- perhaps an ur-connetion to the quenelles of the Loire.

2009 Lapierre Morgon (magnums) in a great place now; still young, but the fruit is now in balance with 2dary flavors. nice complexity and gamay purity. not going to blow you away, but a really nice wine for dinner for 28 (where perhaps 5 cared about what they were drinking). (One uncle who normally doesn't drink at all declared at the end that it was so delicious he drank a whole (large) glass and felt totally buzzed.)

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by kirk wallace:
-- perhaps an ur-conne[c]tion to the quenelles of the Loire.

A German word!

(One uncle who normally doesn't drink at all declared at the end that it was so delicious he drank a whole (large) glass and felt totally buzzed.)

That old-time religion gets you right *here*.

 

[kirk wallace]

i admit, i could benefit from spell-check on here! (error left for posterity)

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

I bought a pile of the 02 Huet fizz in honor of son's birthday. We open one or so a year, and I'm finding I like them a lot, even as the petillance putters out. Acidity and interesting flavors carry the day.