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Saturday Betsy made these little individual shrimp-garlic casseroles;
while at Eastchester Seafood she had gotten us a half-dozen Kumamoto oysters as an appetizer.I confess that I was only able to open 4 with a knife, 2 of the little *******s looked like rocks and I couldn't find a hinge for the life of me, so we ended up with 2 raw and 1 steamed each. ![]() Wine was the 2001 Laffourcade Savennieres. Not a stellar vintage, not a producer I know anything about, but how wrong are you going to go with a $7 Savennieres? Good acidity (if maybe a little lower than I expect for Savennieres), waxy/wooly Chenin notes, warm apple fruit. Enjoyable if not exciting. Unusually for Chenin it doesn't hold up well overnight, next evening lots of oxidative notes. But good value. B Sunday we went to a pre-Valentines Day party. Big bash, the primary wines out were mags of Yellowtail (and probably no one but me cared). I did sample a couple nicer wines: 2005 Discovery Sauvignon Blanc (Marlborough) Gooseberry and citrus, a bit of flinty minerality, someone cut the NZ SB with a bit of Sancerre. ![]() 2005 Clos Roche Blanche Cabernet Ripe sappy/juicy red fruit but with an acidic spine, a little green pepper and uncured tobacco. Fun yet serious little wine, B+ We went home earlier than we would have liked, Betsy had 2 big dutch ovens of "chicken bouillabaisse" (kind of a Provencal fricasee with fennel, garlic, and a finishing dash of Pernod, with an aioli accompaniment, from an Eric Ripert recipe). Betsy delivered one dutch oven to a family with an ailing chef, then we had a nice family dinner. In past I've found rosé is a good choice with this dish, but apparently my still rosé supply is zero (I buy mostly in summer). So I grabbed a white, the 2005 La Vieille Ferme Cotes du Rhone (am I crazy, or isn't this usually labelled Cotes du Luberon?). Nice simple white, maybe a touch dilute, with bright apple fruit, sufficient acidity, clean finish. Some floral notes. Not complex but at $6.xx certainly a fair value (and I seldom say that about Rhone whites). B/ B- Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an excellent wine, B a good wine, C mediocre. Anything below C means I wouldn't drink at a party where it was only choice. Furthermore, I offer no promises of objectivity, accuracy, and certainly not of consistency. |
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DaleW wrote:
So > I grabbed a white, the 2005 La Vieille Ferme Cotes du Rhone (am I > crazy, or isn't this usually labelled Cotes du Luberon?). Nice simple > white, maybe a touch dilute, with bright apple fruit, sufficient > acidity, clean finish. Some floral notes. Not complex but at $6.xx > certainly a fair value (and I seldom say that about Rhone whites). B/ > B- > The red, at least, is a Cotes du Ventoux, but being a searching type I checked out the website and find the white is a Cote du Luberon. |
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On Feb 12, 4:17�pm, Joseph Coulter > wrote:
> DaleW wrote: > > * *So> I grabbed a white, the 2005 La Vieille Ferme Cotes du Rhone (am I > > crazy, or isn't this usually labelled Cotes du Luberon?). Nice simple > > white, maybe a touch dilute, with bright apple fruit, sufficient > > acidity, clean finish. Some floral notes. Not complex but at $6.xx > > certainly a fair value (and I seldom say that about Rhone whites). B/ > > B- > > The red, at least, is a Cotes du Ventoux, but being a searching type I > checked out the website and find the white is a Cote du Luberon. That's what I remembered- red and rose Cotes du Ventoux, white Cotes du Luberon. But the 2005 white is Cotes du Rhone AC I just got out bottle to confirm.. 50% Grenache Blanc, 20% Viognier, 15% each Marsanne & Rousanne, if anyone cares. |
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DaleW wrote:
> > That's what I remembered- red and rose Cotes du Ventoux, white Cotes > du Luberon. But the 2005 white is Cotes du Rhone AC I just got out > bottle to confirm.. 50% Grenache Blanc, 20% Viognier, 15% each > Marsanne & Rousanne, if anyone cares. > It sort of makes sense as they are headquartered in Orange. |
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