No wine Tuesday with miso-coconut salmon curry
With salt and pepper pork chops
2013 Thivin Reverdon Brouilly Red fruits, tree bark, juicy acids, very fun but a little cigar ash on finish says time to go. BCurry chicken tonkatsu with quick pickled cabbage, rice, Japanese pickle, and roast broccoli
2009 AJ Adam Hofberg Kabinett Fairly sweet, but nervy acids, peach and tropical profile. B+/B2015 Selbach-Oster Zeltinger Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett halbtrocken Tart, taut, tense, crisp green apple with flint. Great value,.B/B+
Dry aged ribeye, baked potato, sauteed spinach, salad
2002 d’Aiguilhe I put this away (unfortunately more than 1) to see if oak integrated, this is an extracted dense wine with little charm. C+2004 Giovanni Rosso “Serralunga” Barolo (375) Seemingly fully mature in half, red cherry over tar and rose petals, good last minute replacement for the poor Bdx. B
Over to some friends for a goodbye party for a friend moving to Lisbon I was in charge of appetizers Watermelon radish/hummus/smoked mussel canapes Chorizo bites in sherry and honey Salt cod fritters
NV Lahaye Blanc de Blancs Snappy, dry, and crisp, long- quite fun. B+/B
Francois Baur Cremant d’Alsace Rounder, high dosage, clean B-
Fondue, with ham, cornichons, quinoa salad
2021 Boniface Les Rocailles Apremont Light, red delicious apple with cantaloupe, good contrast to the fondue. B-2020 Cave de l'Ormarine Grande Reserve de Gassac Round, fleshy, needs some spine. C+
Oysters, scallops with citrus and capers, hubbard squash, Chinese broccoli with chile crisp
2019 Fichet Bourgogne Blanc Cote d’Or Clean, fresh, good verve. B/B+Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an excellent wine, B a good wine, C drinkable. 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.