Lest we forget our history

[VLM]

Comrade mark e needs to be mentioned every time this is a topic.

 

[Florida Jim]

True.
Slanted Door was a revelation to me.
Much like La Ciccia.
A very sweet learning curve with some very talented folks pointing the way.
Best, Jim

 

[mark e]

originally posted by VLM:
Lest we forget our historyComrade mark e needs to be mentioned every time this is a topic.

thanks, very kind of you all to mention that. hard to remember that the wine landscape was oh so different in 1995, which is really not all that long ago.

 

[Jayson Cohen]

originally posted by Florida Jim:
True.
Slanted Door was a revelation to me. . . . A very sweet learning curve with some very talented folks pointing the way.
Best, Jim

Ditto.

 

[MLipton]

Silly me. I didn't check the byline initially, and halfway through the article I had to go back and look because it was wine writing that wasn't making me retch. I should have known.

Nice article. Thanks for the link, VLM.

Mark Lipton

p.s. Pairing wine with Asian food started for me with takeout Indian in NYC in the '80s. Eating at SD with SFJoe in the '90s was a watershed moment that opened my eyes to the power of pairing white wines with food.

 

[Keith Levenberg]

Omits some important history however - Tse Yang in New York and Tan Dinh in Paris were doing serious wine with Asian food long before the hipsters got into the game.

 

[mark e]

originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
Omits some important history however - Tse Yang in New York and Tan Dinh in Paris were doing serious wine with Asian food long before the hipsters got into the game.

Agreed. But having been to Tan Dinh before I moved back to the US in 1994, no one would dispute that the list was quite serious, but it was focused on Bordeaux, Pomerol in particular.

Not sure who the hipsters are . . . (unless you mean Night + Market).

 

[VLM]

originally posted by mark e:

originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
Omits some important history however - Tse Yang in New York and Tan Dinh in Paris were doing serious wine with Asian food long before the hipsters got into the game.

Agreed. But having been to Tan Dinh before I moved back to the US in 1994, no one would dispute that the list was quite serious, but it was focused on Bordeaux, Pomerol in particular.

Not sure who the hipsters are . . . (unless you mean Night + Market).

The Vifian brothers did introduce me to the wines of Dr. Mugneret and they always had well aged Cotat (and Guffens Macon). They did have impressive Bordeaux, but it was too expensive for this graduate student.

 

[BJ]

I remember very very early on WT SFJoe chided me indirectly for wondering aloud what demisec, offdry whites were for...

 

[Jeff Grossman]

...BYOB-on-the-lazy susan past...

Hey! That is exactly how every Grand Sichuan jeebus is conducted!