[TN] '99 Pegau CdP

Congrats on your birthday. I Have a few bottles of the 1999 Pegau Reservee left so I will be drinking them over the next few years. Sounds like you wife is a keeper! :-)

Happy Birthday! I like the 99 vintage in Southern Rhone, maybe not one for the ages but nice drinkers now. No jamminess/roasticity (I made up words!) at least with non-extreme makers. Congrats on the 45 LHL, a wonderful wine

Happy birthday Mark. I only have one bottle left of the Pegau but it sounds like it is ready now. The last one opened in 2007, I didn't feel was ready.

The heck with the Pagau, Mark, pop that Huet and let's hear about THAT!!

And happy birthday!

I'm down with that! Now about bottles you can bring to France, the Huet needs to come home to expire.

Happy Birthday, Mark.

-E

Emery - remind me where are you living. I'll be over in the Rhone in the Fall. We could try to talk Mr Hoare out of Forges for a CNduP frenzy......

needs to come home to expire.

We could try to talk Mr Hoare out of Forges for a CNduP

As it happens..... Dunno whether it will still be alive, but I do have one single bottle of Domaine de Mont Redon 1967 that might be persuaded to give its all. Although it's not CdP, Beaumes de Venise is nearby and Domaine Durban is (IMNSHO) the best Muscat producer there.

Emery lives in Normandy iirc. Forges is about equidistant from Normandy and CdP. (innocent whistle) - and Mr T in Six Fours. And Mr H should be getting the wherewithall to cook sous vide "real soon now" and is it worth pointing out at the technique was invented in France to cook foie gras?

All the best Fatty in Forges

I do hope to read about your sous vide adventures soon, Ian. And will you rename your little auberge La Sous Vide? :P

Mark Lipton

needs to come home to expire.

Fall. We could try to talk Mr Hoare out of Forges for a CNduP

Actually currently splitting time between Paris and Normandy, which makes the CdP commute even easier. It sounds as if we may have a meeting in the planning!

Agree about the quality of Durban, an old bottle would be interesting. A visit to Durban is always nice, it is one of the beautiful places of the planet.

Don't have anything from the glory days of Mont Redon, but I presume I could find an interesting neck or two...

Ah ha, you provide the foies! :)

-E

I can provide the gras :-)

For Six Fours head straight down the Rhone by Hermitage, Chateauneuf, head down to Bandol vineyards, stop there, call me on cell, I'll be there in 10 minutes. :-)

I did the sous vide lobster on Sunday. Easy to prepare. I wasn't totally sure of the timing but managed to guess right as I did the tail meat a bit longer than the claws. I thought the claws were a bit mushy as they are already a bit soft but the tails were tender and moist.