Touring Willamette valley in ’05 I bought a WilliKenzie 2005 pinot noir I liked. They’d really babied it along. Told of repeated pushing down the cap. Planned to have it some special occasion rated some above 90 but fact selected it from the taste room more of interest. 2 weeks back Dorly made a sauerbraten and I got home late to find she’d pulled it and Tom had not gotten the cork full engaged with lever puller and had to push bottom in and decant to filter the crumbs. Lot lesser wine’d done just fine and a little light with vinegar gravy red cabbage and dumplings but now I never need to worry. Tom said I checked and is about $50. I said’d be a 2006 on as ’04 and ’05 been unavailable some time. Had it with 3 I love leastwise.
Wines were ones Jadot handle but not produce, Beaune Premier Crus but great value. I was telling Thierry of the summer ’74 we drove to Tarragonia Spain down the Loire. Tom was 1 and cutting teeth when we tried to nap about 4 AM in a stop. WOW. Finally got café and croissants and pressed on. On the way back we spent the night in Vienne to have lunch at La Pyramide, Fernand Point’s 3 star (max at the time) birthplace of post war French cuisine. Trained all the big time Lyon chefs to come. Tom sat quietly chewing a duck leg and they loved him . I got to tour the kichen. Big middle of Beaujolais producers and began to like them better. Discovered Julienas ( Caesar) .
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Oddest thing on the trip to coastal condos below Barcelona Dorly’s friends from Trier owned was the local fish market . Some of this and some of those and go eat them fresh on the deck and a olive oil salesman came to the door. Better was the bodega where you took bottles and they filled em up. Was Mon, Aug 9th and I saw a headline coming back from buying fish, NIXON DIMITIR with a half age picture. Meant POTUS and VP both resigned in disgrace and elevated to VP next in line Speaker Jerry Ford now my commander in chief. Guess we used to have Rule of Law. 8
Tough to gauge what the condition of the cork is until you start pulling it out. Had a 1996 Penfolds Grange for 50th b’day, got half the cork out and the rest disintegrated. Had to filter and decant to get the remains out of the bottle. Was worth it, great bottle. WilliKenzie is a fine wine, wife and I have talked about an Oregon trip in the next few years and Willamette Valley will be one of our stops. May even drive back and stop at some of the California wineries on the way.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours Eight and to all here.