TN: Chassagne with lobster

Great combo and what cheap lobster. Best I have seen lately is $9.99/lb. I have some 2005 Morey and may try it with a lobster.

We've had $4.99/lb and even 3.99/lb frequently over last 6 months (for

Hi Dale, Please excuse my ignorance, but what is this wine of which you speak? We have home prepared lobster on Valentine's Day and New Year's eve, but always with bubbles (usually domestic, other, and occasionally a "real" Champagne).

BTW: I've never met a lobster I didn't like.

Just curious' Dick in MN

It's white burgundy aka chardonnay.

I'm living in the wrong place for lobster. Perhaps they don't enjoy going this far south?

A correction, if I may:

Chassagne and Puligny are the names of two villages in the Cote do Beaune. The villages get the name of their most famous vineyard, Montrachet, hyphenated to them. So the Villages are called Chassagne-Montrachet and Puligny-Montrachet. Chassagne-Montrachet and Puligny-Montrachet don't flank the Montrachet vineyard; rather about half of Montrachet is within each of those two villages.

Chassagne-Montrachet and Puligny-Montrachet are *not* the names of vineyards, unlike Montrachet itself and the two other hyphenated

-Montrachet names, Batard-Montrachet and Chevalier-Montrachet.

Again, Montrachet is the name of a vineyard, not a district.

Yes, the vineyard is very small--as you say, about 20 acres.

Yes, they are touching each other, but more than "roughly." They are adjacent to each other. They touch both within the Montrachet vineyard and outside it.

If I may describe it by means of an analogy: visualize a football field and call the left half of it, up to the 50-yard line, Chassagne (or Chassagne-Montrachet), and the right half of it Puligny (or Puligny-Montrachet. Now draw a circle smaller than the width of the football field, centered on the 50-yard line. That circle is the Montrachet vineyard--half within Chassagne and half within Puligny.

And scattered around the rest of the field are other vineyards. Batard-Montrachet, like Montrachet, sits on the border between the towns, just south-east of and next to Montrachet itself, Chevalier-Montrachet is on the Puligny side, just north-west of and next to Montrachet itself, and goes right-up to the border. All the other vineyards are here and there within the two towns.

It's white burgundy aka chardonnay.

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Isn't there also a fair amount of red produced in C-M? Graham

Yes ,and until recently, more red than white but for the most part it's better known for it's chardonnay in the US. It still produces almost as much red as white and the reds can be quite good and well priced.

LOL! Sounds good to me too.

Ed Rasimus wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Or, to make it easier, have a look at these maps:

They can be quite boring. Puligny is a tiny village with no more than a bunch of houses, mostly dedicated to winemaking. Chassagne is a bit more disperse, but you do not see many people in the streets in any of them, walls are high...

Yes, they make great wine and there are some interesting restaurants (in Beaune!).

s.

Good maps! Thanks for illustrating what I was trying to describe.

Ed wrote on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:23:03 -0500:

You might like to consider what the Monterey Bay Aquarium says about Chilean Sea Bass.

Chilean Seabass Chilean seabass is severely overfished and is rated “Avoid.” In addition, most Chilean seabass in the U.S. market come from boats that are fishing illegally and using unmodified bottom longlines. This unmodified fishing gear hooks and drowns thousands of seabirds each year, most notably endangered albatross.

It is a pity; I used to like what is also called the Patagonian Toothfish.

Ed wrote on Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:05:30 -0500:

I was brought up in a fishing port and I know the taste of fresh fish, something that it is hard to get these days because of acceptance of practically any catch no matter what you pay (outside perhaps sush). Mostly, I eat salmon and trout, tho' those are farmed and don't seem to have the taste of wild caught fish. I have bought cod, halibut, roughy and monkfish lately from quite expensive places that completely missed the fresh taste. Not only that but even expensive stores are prone to removing heads from trout "for convenience" and so you can't check the eyes.

Lobster is still good and also shrimp.

I've no scruples whatsoever about hunting deer tho' farmed venison seems to taste better than hunted and I did hunt ( the hard way, creeping upwind from the deer on a treeless mountain) when growing up in Scotland.

I understand completely James. We spend my winters now on Marco Island Florida where we are fortunate to have fresh fish, shrimp, spiny lobster, Stone Crab etc. available right at the dock. Additionally, I fish at least once a week and usually bring home a nice Redfish, a few Sea Trout(Spotted Weakfish), Whiting, Pompano, Spanish and King Mackeral, Red Snapper, Mangrove Snapper, Grouper or Snook home for dinner. I throw back what I'm not going to eat and never freeze the fish that I catch.

We also have a farm where the bird and deer hunting is outstanding and I have no shortage of venison and pheasant (doves and woodcock during the short season) in the freezer. Our venison is quite tasty given that we are surrounded by thousands of acres of wheat, oats, soybeans and corn so by fall the deer are quite fat and tasty. The farm also allows us to have a small garden that supplies us with fresh veggies and the like so we are lucky to have fresh natural food to pair with our wines!