On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:21:24 -0500, Mark Lipton
wrote:

Ed Rasimus wrote:

Happy Thanksgiving. Only Monday and SWMBO is adrift in la cocina,
getting increasingly frantic and issuing random demands for unusual
ingredients....

Two bottles of a nice Mosel-Saar Ruwer Spatlese, two of a Rheingau
Spatlese and two Schug Carneros PN added to the stock in anticipation
of Thursday.

(Why is it with several hundred bottles in the basement, I go out and
buy wine for the dinner??? What's wrong with this picture???)

LOL!! Because you don't want to waste your precious Ridge Zins on the
impossible collection of foods that grace most Thanksgiving tables, Ed???

Mark Lipton

Wine is to be consummed, and I've got few bottles that are
"off-limits". Still, it seems that nothing in the cellar seems to be
appropriate. The incredible conflict is the desire on one hand to
enhance the meal which comes as a result of significant effort while
at the other hand minimizing the "pearls before swine" syndrome of
seeing a few folks who don't make much distinction about what is
placed before them swill the good stuff without much appreciation.

Before someone chastizes me for crass elitism, let me state that the
friends who share my holiday table are highly valued and that I
inevitably lean toward the better bottles and the hope that maybe a
discussion of what we might be enjoying will blossom into greater
enjoyment.

Still, for the "impossible collection" of foods, I don't think the
Italians which seem to be the latest tilt of my cellar, nor the Ridge
zins (or their new co-tenants of the basement, the Renwood Amador
County zins), or the gradually growing Bordeaux samplings which need a
couple of years, nor anything else (particularly not the Monte Bello
vertical I've been nurturing) seem appropriate.

I've always liked Schug PN and the two spatleses will satisfy those
who insist that white goes with poultry. Rheingau has always been may
favorite German and the Mosel will offer a bit of contrast and a
lighter taste.


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
www.thunderchief.org