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Wineless Monday (kinchee rice and bbq tofu), Tuesday was grilled tuna steak , sauteed arugula, rice, and mizuna salad, with the 2015 Dauny Sancerre ros e. Red cherries, a little pit fruit note, on bigger side, could use more ac id - this is heavier style of rose. I’ll pass on more of these. B-/ C+

With skirt steak, pappardelle with a squash blossom sauce, and caprese, the 2013 Poggio Scalette Chianti Classico. Plump, round red fruits, a hint of leather, needs some zing. B-

With pork chops, greens (mustard and kohlrabi), rice, and salad, the 2013 N ikolaihof “Im Weingebirge” Gruner Veltliner. Federspiel . S tood up to the food well, apple and nectarine accented with white pepper an d lemon zest. Good acids, fresh, I like. B+

Grilled branzino with a lemongrass/coconutmilk/mint sauce, kale salad, and brown rice The 2008 R. Haart Piesporter Gräfenberg Kabinett was lean, nervy, and long . I had actually thought I had opened the Goldtropchen and thought vin tage had trumped vineyard with the lack of tropical notes, but after I wrot e my notes realized I had wrong wine. Green apple, lime, a little petrol. B

+/A-

Saturday we picked up Muneko and John in the city and headed down to Le Coq Rico. The bistro of birds lived up to its hype- we enjoyed the offal platt er (hearts on skewers with apple, curry croquettes, liver crostini, etc), a sparagus with a crusted egg, Brune Landais chicken, squasb, foie gras, and more. They were nice and professional re wine (corkage was $37, a strange figure, meant to look and see if that was possibly lowest priced bottle on their list)

1990 Trimbach “Cuvee Frederic Emile” Riesling VT I debated bringing the ‘89 or the ‘90, went with the latter . This shows a little sweeter than the ‘89 does, though still more a halbtrccken style. Rich tropical fruit, orange blossom, just a little pet rol. Stony mineral finish. Very good, A-

1998 Domaine des Perdrix Echezeaux Red fruits, oak, smoke. Everyone else loved, I was bothered by the oak. Tow ards end it gets a little more integrated, with oak taking on a little exot ic sandalwood character. But I though a tad disappointing for 18 year old G rand Cru. B- (I did have fun telling everyone it came from Gregory Peck’s cellar )

While others had the raspberry millefeuille, I had a glass of the 2014 Berg erie Coteaux du Layon (well, part of glass, as a kind of little coupe glass filled to rim, I managed to spill down my shirt and pants). Honied, lush, could use a bit more acid. B/B-

Last night we walked over the hill (hound in tow) to spend the evening on s ome friends’ deck, welcoming their niece returning from a year teac hing in Italy.

2015 Essenciel de Paradis Rose Clean fresh light Provencal rose. B

I made grilled shrimp with the leftover lemongrass/cilantro.mint/chile sauc e from Friday, intended wine was the 2011 JJ Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Kabin ett, but neglected to open till shrimp were almost gone. Slight CO2 spritz, a little reduced at first, cleans up. Green apple and yellow plum, some he rby notes. Young but good. B+

Dinner was grilled swordfish, a great slaw, and a grain/bean salad.

2011 Abbatucci Il Cavaliere Diplomate d'Empire Herb, pine, and white fruits. Full-textured, with a kind of Rhonish oily ed ge. Big exotic white with good acids. B+

2009 Burgaud Morgon Bigger, riper, denser kind of Beaujolais, lots of juicy fruit, I think blin d I might have guessed Cali PN! But reasonably tasty. B/B-

2012 CVNE Cune Rioja Clean, red fruit and vanilla, easy enough. B-

Fun night

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 p arty where it was only choice.Furthermore, I offer no promises of objectivi ty, accuracy, and certainly not of consistency.

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Have I mentioned recently that you and Betsy eat really well? ;-) Bummer about the Sancerre Rosé. Never heard of the producer, tho.

Good to hear. I've got some of this, I think.

No trace of sulfur? I have a very difficult time with young Prüm wines because of the sulfur.

I've so far resisted the plunge with Corsican wines. Just a bit too pricey for me.

The mark of '09. I'm keeping hands off in the hopes that they'll eventually return to form.

Thanks for all the notes, Dale.

Mark Lipton

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Took a flyer because it was at Chambers, and friends have liked the whites.

I think they've lighted up a bit in recent years, especially on Kabinett le vel. although still plenty of sulfur, which is where I assume the (light) r eduction comes from . But I'm no chemist!

Some are actually pretty cheap (Leccia for instance), The Abbattuci wines - especially the Cuvee Collection ones (fascinating story, family got cuttin gs of almost extinct indigenous varieties and saved them) are pricey, but very good. But Zachys had a sale where this wine and the red Ministre Imper ial were $35 rather than normal $75-100, wish I'd bought more than I did.

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ak, sauteed arugula, rice, and mizuna salad, with the 2015 Dauny Sancerre r ose. Red cherries, a little pit fruit note, on bigger side, could use more acid - this is heavier style of rose. I’ll pass on more of these. B

-/C+

he 2013 Poggio Scalette Chianti Classico. Plump, round red fruits, a hint o f leather, needs some zing. B-

Nikolaihof “Im Weingebirge” Gruner Veltliner. Federspiel . Stood up to the food well, apple and nectarine accented with white pepper and lemon zest. Good acids, fresh, I like. B+

d long . I had actually thought I had opened the Goldtropchen and thought v intage had trumped vineyard with the lack of tropical notes, but after I wr ote my notes realized I had wrong wine. Green apple, lime, a little petrol. B+/A-

oq Rico. The bistro of birds lived up to its hype- we enjoyed the offal pla tter (hearts on skewers with apple, curry croquettes, liver crostini, etc), asparagus with a crusted egg, Brune Landais chicken, squasb, foie gras, a nd more. They were nice and professional re wine (corkage was $37, a strang e figure, meant to look and see if that was possibly lowest priced bottle o n their list)

er. This shows a little sweeter than the ‘89 does, though still mor e a halbtrccken style. Rich tropical fruit, orange blossom, just a little p etrol. Stony mineral finish. Very good, A-

owards end it gets a little more integrated, with oak taking on a little ex otic sandalwood character. But I though a tad disappointing for 18 year old Grand Cru. B-

rgerie Coteaux du Layon (well, part of glass, as a kind of little coupe gla ss filled to rim, I managed to spill down my shirt and pants). Honied, lush , could use a bit more acid. B/B-

some friends’ deck, welcoming their niece returning from a year te aching in Italy.

uce from Friday, intended wine was the 2011 JJ Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Kab inett, but neglected to open till shrimp were almost gone. Slight CO2 sprit z, a little reduced at first, cleans up. Green apple and yellow plum, some herby notes. Young but good. B+

edge. Big exotic white with good acids. B+

ind I might have guessed Cali PN! But reasonably tasty. B/B-

e, 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 objecti vity, accuracy, and certainly not of consistency.

I opened a 2005 Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese this week and it had a tiny amount of spritz but not a lot of sulpher. Frankly it was delicious in al l of the right ways and out of 15 wines it was the only one that was totall y drained at the end of the night.

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