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Default Wine match for jellyfish!

On Sep 29, 3:21 pm, Mike Tommasi > wrote:
> st.helier wrote:
> > Mike Tommasi, this is close to your stamping ground

>
> >http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/...id=6&objectid=...

>
> > Can you suggest a wine match?

>
> I was about to say yech, but then I saw the name Carme Ruscalleda. She
> is, with Pascal Barbot, on the top of my list of tables I would love to
> try and are within my frequent travel routes.
>
> Last summer i ordered her book "Cuinar per ser feliç", in catalan (I
> have become a fairly proficient reader, if not speaker), and tried a few
> recipes, she is very good.
>
> Jellyfish? From anyone else - you know who - I would suspect that they
> were trying to "épater les bourgeois". From her, even without ever
> having experienced her cooking, but based on everything I hear from
> friends in the area, I would definitely taste jellyfish.
>
> Wine? How would I know, I don't know what it tastes like yet. Wine with
> a sting? Probably an aged rosé from Provence, something tentacular...
>
> --
> Mike Tommasi - Six Fours, France
> email linkhttp://www.tommasi.org/mymail


Gruner Veltliner. Solves all problems. Try Ott or Nigl.