TN: '01 Crozes Hermitage Cave coop de Tain

er, I mean paupillette, I guess! What was I drinking, anyway? :)

-E

Emery Davis wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@address.com:

All in all a classic enough Crozes, if a little thin

And I drink all of it I can get! Perhaps because at @10USD it is close enough to the 20+USD product from Jaboulet that is the only other one I can get regularly.

You are right about the warmth, or lack thereof, it is more like a CA tasting room, but they pour from a wide variety. One does miss the personal touch, the "Oooh if you like that one, just a minute I have something here, aaah there she is a 1990 "cuvee better than _____" YOu must taste this wine!

Three weeks to France! alas for a wedding, but wait there is wine at dinner, non?

er, paupiette...

Mike

Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France email link

] On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:05:42 +0100, Emery Davis ] wrote: ] ] >On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 21:45:36 +0100, Emery Davis said: ] >

] >[] ] >] went well with a papillote de veau stuffed with smoked ham and ] >][] ] >

] >er, I mean paupillette, I guess! What was I drinking, anyway? :) ] ] er, paupiette... ] ] Mike ] ]

Shaddup, Mike. :) I just read the post and was about to kill and correct it, again.

Sigh, there really are such days... P-A-U-P-I-E-T-T-E !!! The first was a slip of the tongue, at least I managed to spell it right. Now you see why I'm an infrequent poster on frbv.

-E

Hi Emery

sorry, I couldn't find any gross mistakes, so I decided to bug with with some stooopid mispelling. ;-)))

Mike

Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France email link

I've usually found the co-op Crozes to be a good (though never outstanding) version of the appelation; most of the attraction is that it's usually cheaper than any other Crozes (and offers more character most years than the Jaboulet Jalets bottling or Delas Freres).

Is Op. 40 a sonata or a concerto? I forgot which work you mentioned, but asked her last night re Hoffman. She hadn't heard any new recordings by him , but did say that he plays upon a truly gorgeous instrument (it used to belong to Leonard Rose, her old teacher).

Best,

Dale

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] I've usually found the co-op Crozes to be a good (though never outstanding) ] version of the appelation; most of the attraction is that it's usually cheaper ] than any other Crozes (and offers more character most years than the Jaboulet ] Jalets bottling or Delas Freres). ]

Did you get a chance to try (or anyone else) the '98 coop Hermitage? Just stumbled across a bottle in the cellar, must have been a gift from someone. Not planning on opening soon obviously, just wondering.

] >Off topic: Dale, happened to listen to a recording of Gary Hoffman ] >playing the Shostakovitch Op 40 over dinner. Less heavy handed ] >than he can be at times, nicely done I thought. I wonder if Betsy ] >plays this, or if she's heard the Hoffman version? ] >

] >

] ] Is Op. 40 a sonata or a concerto? I forgot which work you mentioned, but asked ] her last night re Hoffman. She hadn't heard any new recordings by him , but did ] say that he plays upon a truly gorgeous instrument (it used to belong to ] Leonard Rose, her old teacher). ] A sontata. Yes, it's Rose's Amati, I believe. It is indeed a wonderful instrument. Betsy studied with Rose, eh? Good stuff.

-E

Thanks for the advice! Nice to meet you, Emery.

-Cherie

Does it just say Hermitage? Seems to me I remember that they often have 2 bottlings (one is Belle Rives or the like)? I have liked some of their Hermitages- for the price - before. Never going to mistake for JL Chave, but sometimes they're priced closer to a top Crozes. But don't remember tasting a '98.

Well, it was at end of his career, and he might not have been at his best. Her real mentor was Paul Katz of the Cleveland.

best, Dale

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Indeed they they offer two versions of Hermitage: "standard" cuvee called "Nobles Rives" and Cuvee Prestige called "Gambert de Loche" (with this name printed on the label below the large Hermitage name).

] On 26 Feb 2004 19:22:17 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@aol.comdamnspam (Dale Williams) ] wrote: ] ] >In article , Emery Davis ] > writes: ] >>

] >Does it just say Hermitage? Seems to me I remember that they often have 2 ] >bottlings (one is Belle Rives or the like)? I have liked some of their ] >Hermitages- for the price - before. Never going to mistake for JL Chave, but ] >sometimes they're priced closer to a top Crozes. But don't remember tasting a ] >'98. ] >

] Indeed they they offer two versions of Hermitage: "standard" cuvee ] called "Nobles Rives" and Cuvee Prestige called "Gambert de Loche" ] (with this name printed on the label below the large Hermitage name). ]

Hi, thanks for that. Mine just says Hermitage, no mention of rives, nobles or ignobles. Have you had this '98, Jacek?

-E