OK, not exactly drinking…but if I could…
Your Italian lesson for today: Oddly, a C gets a CH sound, but a CH…especially a CCH gets a K sound.
You’re welcome.
@FritzCat Gotta love Google Lens:
''This is a jar of Marmellata di Arance di Bombolieri from Arianna Occhipinti, an organic orange marmalade made with Tarocco and Navel oranges from Contrada Bombolieri in Sicily."
Campo Grande Presa
Finally trying fondant potatoes! Seeing Scott make them all the time has had them on my list for far too long.
2001 ABC Pinot, Talley Vineyard
A very unique Quebec rye in Montreal. Cirka whisky No 3. Coffee and chocolate notes and the longest finish ever! Bootleggers pub and a glass of decent Barbaresco with the burger. Was able to buy a bottle in duty free for home.
@InFrom@klezman Agreed. I’ll go further and say it’s not a buy at the CT avg either. Not trying to disparage the wine which we truly enjoyed. There’s a bottle in the fridge ready to go when the mood strikes us.
@kaolis Dell’Alpe makes a couple of really good giard’s. For out of Illinois people, Target might have it, but Amazon does for sure. FYI, this is National Italian Beef Month.
@jmdavidson1 Yeah I had to order the gallon. You are lucky to find any around here, maybe one brand on a shelf, and if you do it is mild. We were a tad spoiled when we lived your way and could walk into Caputo’s where they have a wall of giardiniera. Italian Beef Month? Who knew! Will be heading back that way soon, will celebrate properly
@pjmartin@rjquillin I was a bit surprised that for my last “inspection” I only had to use over-the-counter products (MiraLAX and Dulcolax) for the prep. The bad part was having to get up at 3:30am to finish the 2nd cycle before I reported for duty.
@klezman@rjquillin I would probably have eaten any/all of that (back when I could taste and was not avoiding carbs) – found I prefer sashimi over sushi (especially enjoyed salmon, tuna, and scallops). The one thing that I tried in Japan (during my two business trips there) that I’m happy to never see again is Shiokara (fermented squid guts). Well, I also wasn’t a big fan of the Nankotsu (grilled chicken cartilage) at the yakitori restaurant.
Much better than the charbono. A little fruit forward in a way not exactly my wheelhouse, but tamed down as night one went on and night two. Lovely bride enjoyed more than I did. And the notes in the offering are pretty spot on, not a bright rendition, a little darker profile.
@kaolis Had a 2019 Inzini Charbono (currently on Wine Access) that was very nice, reminded me of the first Charbono I had from Summers Estate in Calistoga. I will have to try the Kivelstadt before too long. I had a really bad Charbono given to me be a local wine store owner because he said he didn’t want to sell it to me until I tried it. It was horrible and a disappointment.
@kaolis OMG, I’ve never looked them up…you can get them on EPSY or EBay for about $60 a pair. I got 'em for (I think) $5 each at my local Thrifty Shopper (thrift store). I do have some of the “premium” wine glasses, but these are my go-to glasses for the “good wines”.
Well had to try the WS wine of the year and I will say the first glass at PNP was glorious! Threw it in the decanter and it shut down hard a wine that my kids will hopefully enjoy after I’m gone. So popped this 19 with a Mississippi pot roast all is good!
@kaolis
Lol well yes and I will save a bottle for that day 30 years from now when we are both 100 and the doctors will give it to us Intravenously! Something to look forward too ha
@kaolis@ScottW58 put me on the invite list of centenarians for that party. I have a 61 Latour I’ll hold onto for the event. July 2055, time and place to follow.
@kaolis this bottle sure was. No signs of being over the hill. I wonder what the other tasters on CT were tasting. Easily another 10 years based on what I tasted last night.
@kaolis@klezman@ScottW58
Good on all counts above. Better yet to know I don’t have to wait 30 years for them.
Anyone with experience on the '10s or '15s?
@kaolis@klezman@rjquillin
Well maybe we can get a group to gather in Charleston next year for 10, 20 year or older wines. Or just great wines that are young.
Ar is a wonderful gas; finishing this off after well over a week with no degradation, and cleaning out a lot of other leftovers from the fridge to go with it.
@kainc
Showing it’s age, in a good way. Cork came out with a Durand; I don’t think anything else would have successfully extracted it, as a few days later when extracting the original cork I had used to recork, it totally dry crumbled. Note to future self; use a fresher cork when recorking! And if you’re not consuming on day one or two, don’t forget the Ar! (I hadn’t)
Woot purchase for $13.62 Dec 8, 2015. Must have been a mixed case when Peter was closing things down. I think '89 was the first year he was bottling this vineyard, and sadly I now have nothing older than a 2000 from Mohrhardt Ridge.
It’s been horizontal since purchase in a well controlled wine cabinet I purchased, from a restaurant when they retired it, for $100 and restored/rebuilt back in '11. A total grease box.
I thoroughly enjoyed it as a well aged CS with the expected old cab profile with most of the fruit diminished as was most of any acid in it’s youth, but it was absolutely intact with no defects. It showed well what it was earlier, while rather on the lighter side now that demanded a lighter pairing.
I’ll find a place to retain the empty of this one…
@kaolis@ScottW58 I wish Burgundy hadn’t jumped in price so much of late. Even though much of it was tariffs, I can’t imagine the companies just foregoing that extra profit once the tariffs are gone.
@kaolis@klezman
Lol Burgundy prices exploded long before tariffs! Berthaut-Gerbet is still affordable depending what you consider affordable and a few others.
@kaolis@klezman
Really $5 a bottle lol and non village stuff and village exploded way before tariffs! If you’re looking to blame someone you have to look at Rudy! But blame whoever you want.
@kaolis@ScottW58 It was just one example…a 15% bump here, 20-25% bumps on lots of other stuff in the last year and a bit since the tariffs were put on. Yes, there was also price escalation before that - a 5-6 year trend was happening but there was still a step change, at least in what I’ve been seeing. CT average prices by year agree with that observation, too.
@klezman
Well I don’t know what Burgundy you are buying but the low end mid priced stuff I buy went up 50 to 200 percent at least from 2010 to 2020. Iirc in 2016? I was offered a current release La Tache (I did not buy of course) from a direct source for 2k a bottle, I believe they have been for a while 5k to 7k now. That price increase was not from 10 to 15 percent tariffs. CT prices are a joke IMHO because people add in there state taxes and shipping. But whatever fits your narrative I guess
@ScottW58 Meh…not trying to build a narrative. Just what I saw in the email deals coming my way. Sadly, Burgundy has remained a touch above my comfort zone most of the time I’ve been buying wine.
@CorTot@kaolis
memory isn’t what it used to be, but wasn’t DN an assistant to PW, or someone else?
And I need to get after those other vintages that are still gathering dust…
@kaolis@rjquillin
Yeah crab, the Classico is a great buy and what I usually drink but spotted these and had to get some, iirc these were only $10 per more than the 07 vintage I bought a long time ago. Blast from the past!
@klezman Hard to beat fresh corn right? Short season there? It’s really short here in SC and none here yet. Drought hasn’t helped. But heading to WI where ya we’ll be a little early for corn as will you in Chicago but asparagus will be rocking. And fresh peas.
Good thing about midwest is it’s a lonng corn season anymore.
@kaolis Well, in Los Angeles we get 2 or 3 rounds of “corn season”. We’re in the meat of the first right now, and we should have a bit of a lull in a couple weeks until late June/early July. I figure Chicago gets more of the late summer corn season like I used to have in Toronto.
Asparagus season here is already over!
With fresh caught Hamachi Kama and sides,
finishing off last nights’
2023 Stereophonic Wines Into the Blue Again
that I wish I had an additional bottle or two of from BDXVII
@rjquillin Reminds me of one of my Japan trips (the dinners were often my manager, myself, and some of the Japanese higher ups, involving large quantities of beer and saki…oh, and some food). Everything was being ordered by the Japanese. One time they brought out the first “slice” of tuna below the head (with the pectoral fins), and I commented on the “fish cheeks” a bit higher on the head. The next think I knew a roasted tuna head (nose up) appeared, and the extremely tasty bits were picked off. Delicious!
@Mark_L
Yup, that’s the drill. Cousin of mine here does a bit of fishing and has gotten to know the crew well. He pretty much boards to fish for free, but brings them food and helps a lot on deck. Frequently others aren’t interested in the heads, so he ends up with a good number of them, and family gets the treats.
@kaolis@ScottW58
went looking at WallyWorld here after your last post.
Nothing even resembling a meat department.
You going to a super store, or what?
Damn, that looks to be perfectly cooked.
It would seem I’m a follower not a leader like most simple people so confit duck leg, cheesey potato gratin and burgundy. With green stuff, saved the duck fat for soon to come Fondant potatoes.
@rjquillin You’re a big part of that, Mr. Fresh-Caught Hamachi Collar!
I started buying from Suzor on BD a few years ago. I skipped this year only because I was trying to cut back, plus I still have a few left of more recent vintages. I’ve had all the teens starting with '15, and loved them all.
@rjquillin@ScottW58
Bottle is green but it does have a brownish tone in the pic for some reason. The wine was a deep golden color. You could see some age in the depth of color but definitely not brown!
Had some Ocelli last night with pasta. It was a delightful wine. Maybe a touch more fruit forward than my preferences.
I’m rarely in the chat but have been wondering for a while about drinking habits. Are people reducing? Are younger deal seekers showing up to casemates? Curious whether our habits are reflective of the broader trends. Apologies if this gets discussed regularly!
@chipgreen@pjmartin
I left it with David, I still have one. It’s a dry red wine and if blinded you might rack your brain trying to figure it out. Yes, there is blueberry, but not the Erie Islands overwhelming and unmistakable blueberry that we find in northern Ohio wines.
Early Memorial Day gathering with 2021 Limerick Lane squatters hill zin, 2022 Iron Horse Chardonnay, heart of the vineyard and a very solid 2014 Woot Cellars Bonus Level Petite Sirah (pictured, center). No wine for the kids, of course. They had to settle for lower abv High Noons. Parenting is so easy!!
Finally did it and am very happy! Italian hot beef sandwiches (wet) with hot Giardiniera. Hardest part was taking my beef to my butcher and having him slice it thin. Man I love this
@ScottW58 Glad you liked it. That’s how it’s done in Chi-town. It would be so much easier if your Costco carried the frozen Buona Beef, like they do here.
@jmdavidson1
Lucky dog, we have nothing out here anymore Joe Mantegna had a Chicago pizza and hot beef sandwich restaurant out here when I was working but it’s been closed for years and man I have missed those sandwiches, so I had to take matters into my own hands lol.
@jmdavidson1@ScottW58 I had planned to get one for my return flight earlier this month, but I was delayed and had to go right to the airport. But having had the Philippe’s French Dip, I know what I’m in for and it’s good stuff!
@rjquillin Campo back ribs?! Nice! The side ribs were quite decadent.
I’ve got two pieces left - rib roast and Coppa. No idea how I’m doing to cook them but I need to do it in the next 2 months!
@klezman
back ribs, not sure; it was a pouch of four.
For that Coppa, sous-vide is the way to go.
We did 27 hours and it was the best piece of pork I can recall, ever.
First bottle of six and not as shrill as some of the notes I have read. Lemon a bit of baked apple, mineral and fine acidity. I will give my remaining bottles another year or so. Nice bottle with some Achiote Adobo fish and Carolina gold rice. Never enough bandwidth
A Montreal based rye with 7% German chocolate malted rye, a unique pour tasted in Montreal last month. Picked up the bottle in duty free on the way home. Never had anything like it.
@chipgreen@InFrom@klezman@rjquillin@ScottW58
LOL! I wish I had an endless supply. It’s actually been a few years since I’ve bought from them. I’ve just recently felt like tapping into my “nicer” stash. I deserve it, right?
@ScottW58 was very good. Hard to imagine you haven’t gone before since it’s around the corner from your place. And I thought you were the one who told me about it!
The wine director was super fun. Did some tasting, learned a few things. Including that Augustine opened again.
@chipgreen@klezman
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Thought the bandwidth police might give me a warning but @chipgreen took the pressure off…it’s either a small roast or a big chop in the smoker, raw asparagus and radish salad…looks pretty simple to me
OK, not exactly drinking…but if I could…
Your Italian lesson for today: Oddly, a C gets a CH sound, but a CH…especially a CCH gets a K sound.
You’re welcome.
@FritzCat Gotta love Google Lens:
''This is a jar of Marmellata di Arance di Bombolieri from Arianna Occhipinti, an organic orange marmalade made with Tarocco and Navel oranges from Contrada Bombolieri in Sicily."
@FritzCat @Mark_L
That’s gotta be delicious!
Chicken Francese and an old favorite.
Campo Grande Presa
Finally trying fondant potatoes! Seeing Scott make them all the time has had them on my list for far too long.
2001 ABC Pinot, Talley Vineyard
@klezman @Scottw58 due for a fondant batch, (due for an Iberico order too)
slight variation, just spiced up a bit I guess here
A very unique Quebec rye in Montreal. Cirka whisky No 3. Coffee and chocolate notes and the longest finish ever! Bootleggers pub and a glass of decent Barbaresco with the burger. Was able to buy a bottle in duty free for home.
Local tasting group that when I attend I’m constantly reminded (self observation, not them) how little I know and understand…
@rjquillin oh come on now
yeah another Flannery hanger, we rather enjoyed the vino, a recent offer here
@kaolis SOB it was an omen and I didn’t listen, Ocelli came in 3rd at the Kentucky derby just now at 72 to 1.
@ScottW58 yes yes yes!! bride and I are crying in our, thank god, last of the New Year Portillo’s Italian beef
@kaolis
Oh that’s right rub it in with your Portillo’s Italian beef lol
Michel Schlumberger smackdown! The rosé was a bit more fruity, but otherwise a very similar profile. Definitely a step above a TJs brut rosé or Gruet.
@hscottk Small world! We enjoyed the rosé Friday night, fresh off the truck. With chicken Provençal rescued from the freezer, and red kale agrodolce.
@hscottk @InFrom Given the (SRP) price differences and provenance, I’d hope the Michel-Schlumberger would be miles better than either TJ’s or Gruet!
@InFrom @klezman It over delivers at the CM price but in no way justifies the SRP.
@hscottk @InFrom I mean, very very few California wines are justified at the SRP, IMO.
@InFrom @klezman Agreed. I’ll go further and say it’s not a buy at the CT avg either. Not trying to disparage the wine which we truly enjoyed. There’s a bottle in the fridge ready to go when the mood strikes us.
@hscottk @InFrom Agreed…we have a different perception of value when we hang out here…
With that beef sammie…hard to get certain condiments this neck of the woods
@kaolis Dell’Alpe makes a couple of really good giard’s. For out of Illinois people, Target might have it, but Amazon does for sure. FYI, this is National Italian Beef Month.
@jmdavidson1 Yeah I had to order the gallon. You are lucky to find any around here, maybe one brand on a shelf, and if you do it is mild. We were a tad spoiled when we lived your way and could walk into Caputo’s where they have a wall of giardiniera. Italian Beef Month? Who knew! Will be heading back that way soon, will celebrate properly
@jmdavidson1 @kaolis Italian beef month, eh? Maybe I should get one when I’m in Chicago this week.
@jmdavidson1 @kaolis @klezman Well, that’s one of the few good reasons to visit Chicago. I’m also fond of the stuffed pizzas.
@kaolis @klezman @Mark_L Stuffed?! Thin crust fan here. Never a shortage of good pizza joints here.
Finished the DuMol PN, this, ended with Kelley Fox vermouth
Wellington Saturday Night - 2013 Syrah, Charlie Walker’s Corner with a pink-sauce pizza.
Na, K and Mg Sulfates.
@rjquillin i get to call tomorrow to schedule that. i’ve reached that age. good luck!
@rjquillin
Woof We call that stuff colon blow, hopefully never again well not for another 6 years
@rjquillin Get moved to the Sutab pills next time. Much more pleasant; well much less trouble.
@pjmartin Humm, looks interesting, if a bit pricy. Now, to remember for the next one in three years.
Everything came out just fine.
@pjmartin @rjquillin I was a bit surprised that for my last “inspection” I only had to use over-the-counter products (MiraLAX and Dulcolax) for the prep. The bad part was having to get up at 3:30am to finish the 2nd cycle before I reported for duty.
Leftover night, steak and crab cakes and yeah green stuff.
@ScottW58 Nice leftovers!
@klezman @ScottW58 and nice wine
With Sloppy Joe’s and curly fries
We roll our own
or just forget the gohan all together
@rjquillin shiso… Shudder
The rest looks delicious!
@klezman What’s the issue with Oba (shiso) ?
Roll it with some ume and kaiware for a great dessert roll.
@klezman @rjquillin I would probably have eaten any/all of that (back when I could taste and was not avoiding carbs) – found I prefer sashimi over sushi (especially enjoyed salmon, tuna, and scallops). The one thing that I tried in Japan (during my two business trips there) that I’m happy to never see again is Shiokara (fermented squid guts). Well, I also wasn’t a big fan of the Nankotsu (grilled chicken cartilage) at the yakitori restaurant.
@klezman @Mark_L
Much on that blue platter was indeed consumed as sashimi.
Especially that chutoro on the left that didn’t see a single sheet of nori.
Actual desert was some kushi dango mitarashi.
Ever acquire a taste for natto?
It’s a staple around here.
@rjquillin No objective issue with it - I just don’t like shiso.
The chutoro, though, does look amazing.
Drank this over a couple of nights with…something
Much better than the charbono. A little fruit forward in a way not exactly my wheelhouse, but tamed down as night one went on and night two. Lovely bride enjoyed more than I did. And the notes in the offering are pretty spot on, not a bright rendition, a little darker profile.
@kaolis Had a 2019 Inzini Charbono (currently on Wine Access) that was very nice, reminded me of the first Charbono I had from Summers Estate in Calistoga. I will have to try the Kivelstadt before too long. I had a really bad Charbono given to me be a local wine store owner because he said he didn’t want to sell it to me until I tried it. It was horrible and a disappointment.
Wine
#1 WOTY for 2022
@FritzCat nice…and you made me look up your wine glass
@kaolis OMG, I’ve never looked them up…you can get them on EPSY or EBay for about $60 a pair. I got 'em for (I think) $5 each at my local Thrifty Shopper (thrift store). I do have some of the “premium” wine glasses, but these are my go-to glasses for the “good wines”.
On-deck…hopefully.
@FritzCat
This might be the most peculiar “deck” I’ve seen posted here.
@FritzCat @kawichris650 looks like a poop deck to me
Well had to try the WS wine of the year and I will say the first glass at PNP was glorious! Threw it in the decanter and it shut down hard
a wine that my kids will hopefully enjoy after I’m gone. So popped this 19 with a Mississippi pot roast all is good!
@ScottW58 so I should not be putting the Giscours on the buy list? …a 30 year wine puts me at 100… hey if Dick Van Dyke can do it…
@kaolis
Lol well yes and I will save a bottle for that day 30 years from now when we are both 100 and the doctors will give it to us Intravenously! Something to look forward too ha
@kaolis @ScottW58 put me on the invite list of centenarians for that party. I have a 61 Latour I’ll hold onto for the event. July 2055, time and place to follow.
@kaolis @msten @ScottW58 In July I’ll be 2 months shy of 100, but I’d like an invite too.
2005 Fort Ross Pinot Noir Reserve
2005 Rioja Alta 905 with lamb rack. Delicious.
I sure better have time for 30 year wines!
@klezman sounds like a tasty match, wine still going strong?
@kaolis this bottle sure was. No signs of being over the hill. I wonder what the other tasters on CT were tasting. Easily another 10 years based on what I tasted last night.
@kaolis @klezman
Used to love those but aren’t they 904?
@klezman @ScottW58 that was my thought
@kaolis @ScottW58 sure, that.
@kaolis @klezman @ScottW58
Good on all counts above. Better yet to know I don’t have to wait 30 years for them.
Anyone with experience on the '10s or '15s?
@klezman @rjquillin @ScottW58 We need a 30 year club…or not
@kaolis @klezman @rjquillin
Yeah I drank a boat load of the 09’s and 10’s years ago, they were great
@kaolis @klezman @rjquillin
Well maybe we can get a group to gather in Charleston next year for 10, 20 year or older wines. Or just great wines that are young.
@klezman @rjquillin @ScottW58 or great people that are old? ha! We’ll be here
Ar is a wonderful gas; finishing this off after well over a week with no degradation, and cleaning out a lot of other leftovers from the fridge to go with it.
@rjquillin opportunities to hear how these old guys are holding up are dwindling. Care to comment?
@kainc
Showing it’s age, in a good way. Cork came out with a Durand; I don’t think anything else would have successfully extracted it, as a few days later when extracting the original cork I had used to recork, it totally dry crumbled. Note to future self; use a fresher cork when recorking! And if you’re not consuming on day one or two, don’t forget the Ar! (I hadn’t)
Woot purchase for $13.62 Dec 8, 2015. Must have been a mixed case when Peter was closing things down. I think '89 was the first year he was bottling this vineyard, and sadly I now have nothing older than a 2000 from Mohrhardt Ridge.
It’s been horizontal since purchase in a well controlled wine cabinet I purchased, from a restaurant when they retired it, for $100 and restored/rebuilt back in '11. A total grease box.
I thoroughly enjoyed it as a well aged CS with the expected old cab profile with most of the fruit diminished as was most of any acid in it’s youth, but it was absolutely intact with no defects. It showed well what it was earlier, while rather on the lighter side now that demanded a lighter pairing.
I’ll find a place to retain the empty of this one…
2012 Pedroncelli “Wisdom” Cab at the local-ish TdB.
@chipgreen How’s it doing?
I’m thinking it should be pretty good around now.
Future?
@rjquillin
Doing great! No hurry on these.
A little duck (inspiration thanks to duck a few posts up), couple slices of parm on a bit of fresh lettuce
@kaolis
Hmm duck leg and burgundy, it’s been too long!
@kaolis @ScottW58 I wish Burgundy hadn’t jumped in price so much of late. Even though much of it was tariffs, I can’t imagine the companies just foregoing that extra profit once the tariffs are gone.
@kaolis @klezman
Lol Burgundy prices exploded long before tariffs! Berthaut-Gerbet is still affordable depending what you consider affordable and a few others.
@kaolis @ScottW58 sure, but things that were $35 last year are now $40 and so on. Even non-village stuff is often $50+.
@kaolis @klezman
Really $5 a bottle lol and non village stuff and village exploded way before tariffs! If you’re looking to blame someone you have to look at Rudy! But blame whoever you want.
@kaolis @ScottW58 It was just one example…a 15% bump here, 20-25% bumps on lots of other stuff in the last year and a bit since the tariffs were put on. Yes, there was also price escalation before that - a 5-6 year trend was happening but there was still a step change, at least in what I’ve been seeing. CT average prices by year agree with that observation, too.
@klezman
Well I don’t know what Burgundy you are buying but the low end mid priced stuff I buy went up 50 to 200 percent at least from 2010 to 2020. Iirc in 2016? I was offered a current release La Tache (I did not buy of course) from a direct source for 2k a bottle, I believe they have been for a while 5k to 7k now. That price increase was not from 10 to 15 percent tariffs. CT prices are a joke IMHO because people add in there state taxes and shipping. But whatever fits your narrative I guess
@ScottW58 Meh…not trying to build a narrative. Just what I saw in the email deals coming my way. Sadly, Burgundy has remained a touch above my comfort zone most of the time I’ve been buying wine.
I haven’t posted much of what I’ve opened the last few weeks. So here’s a very boring list.
@CorTot drop by more often!
Solo dinner at home, so it’s a Flannery filet. And Baer Ursa -very nice wine
Go Cavs!
@pjmartin As a buddy of mine says, I’m having dinner with my favorite person…
Cleaning out the fridge from a week or so ago
@rjquillin haven’t seen that bottle in a long while!
@CorTot @rjquillin I remember those
@CorTot @kaolis
memory isn’t what it used to be, but wasn’t DN an assistant to PW, or someone else?
And I need to get after those other vintages that are still gathering dust…
@CorTot @rjquillin PW? He did some Kunde work
@CorTot @kaolis
I was initially thinking Peter W, but it could have been Meeker.
An addled brain is of little usefulness.
Taco night, with Spanish rice
Been drinking and a little eating, so I will use some bandwidth
@ScottW58 Yes you have
@rjquillin @ScottW58 Nice plate, nice lineup…crab? I’ve never ventured beyond the Pieropan Classico which I really like.
@kaolis @rjquillin
Yeah crab, the Classico is a great buy and what I usually drink but spotted these and had to get some, iirc these were only $10 per more than the 07 vintage I bought a long time ago. Blast from the past!
Leftover hanger steak/ pep-mush and a margarita. Wine might not have been a perfect pairing but it was what I was in the mood for tonight.
@msten
nice looking pie, very well segregated toppings
@msten @rjquillin I don’t understand this “leftover hanger steak” you speak of.
@klezman @msten @rjquillin
except for the bottle, more leftovers
almost have the fridge cleared out
2019 Bedrock Heritage Wine, Bedrock Vineyard with short ribs and local corn on the cob. Corn in May is something I suspect I will miss in Chicago…
@klezman Hard to beat fresh corn right? Short season there? It’s really short here in SC and none here yet. Drought hasn’t helped. But heading to WI where ya we’ll be a little early for corn as will you in Chicago but asparagus will be rocking. And fresh peas.
Good thing about midwest is it’s a lonng corn season anymore.
@kaolis Well, in Los Angeles we get 2 or 3 rounds of “corn season”. We’re in the meat of the first right now, and we should have a bit of a lull in a couple weeks until late June/early July. I figure Chicago gets more of the late summer corn season like I used to have in Toronto.
Asparagus season here is already over!
@klezman I’d say sweet corn starts coming in locally around the first week in August
Some downstate stuff shows up a little earlier.
Taco Wednesday, Flannery hanger…finished up the chard and pinot…
With fresh caught Hamachi Kama and sides,
finishing off last nights’
2023 Stereophonic Wines Into the Blue Again
that I wish I had an additional bottle or two of from BDXVII
@rjquillin Reminds me of one of my Japan trips (the dinners were often my manager, myself, and some of the Japanese higher ups, involving large quantities of beer and saki…oh, and some food). Everything was being ordered by the Japanese. One time they brought out the first “slice” of tuna below the head (with the pectoral fins), and I commented on the “fish cheeks” a bit higher on the head. The next think I knew a roasted tuna head (nose up) appeared, and the extremely tasty bits were picked off. Delicious!
@Mark_L
Yup, that’s the drill. Cousin of mine here does a bit of fishing and has gotten to know the crew well. He pretty much boards to fish for free, but brings them food and helps a lot on deck. Frequently others aren’t interested in the heads, so he ends up with a good number of them, and family gets the treats.
@Mark_L @rjquillin nice for sure
Skin crispy like glass, Syrah rocked but the vin Gris better paring.
@ScottW58 that gris is a great colour!
@klezman @ScottW58 goose goose duck chick?
2012 Iron Horse Ocean Reserve BdB
With Sichuan wontons and such
Champagne Collery with off the menu Toro…. And a few other things lol.
hscottk, beautiful stuff, but dang not my alley, and too old to change my ways…
so back to Walmart lamb…ha!
@kaolis
Well shit now I’m hungry! Need to speed up dinner
@kaolis @ScottW58
went looking at WallyWorld here after your last post.
Nothing even resembling a meat department.
You going to a super store, or what?
Damn, that looks to be perfectly cooked.
@kaolis @rjquillin @ScottW58 Don’t ever change! That lamb looks incredible. I need to start shopping at Walmart.
@hscottk @kaolis @ScottW58
and from where did you source that bottle?
certainly not Walmart
With carne asada tacos. Pretty good match!
@klezman
Nice!
It would seem I’m a follower not a leader like most simple people
so confit duck leg, cheesey potato gratin and burgundy. With green stuff, saved the duck fat for soon to come Fondant potatoes.
@ScottW58 killin’ it
2019 Suzor The Tower PN. Salmon with lentil salad, a NYT recipe. Good stuff.
@InFrom
This has got to be the best fed group I know of.
Have you had any of the older vintages of this?
Do I need to find bottles soon?
@rjquillin You’re a big part of that, Mr. Fresh-Caught Hamachi Collar!
I started buying from Suzor on BD a few years ago. I skipped this year only because I was trying to cut back, plus I still have a few left of more recent vintages. I’ve had all the teens starting with '15, and loved them all.
A simple meal of some pasta and garden greens
2017 Arnot-Roberts Cabernet Sauvignon Fellom Ranch
@chipgreen
I seem to recall that was the first pour when the tour visited them.
@chipgreen @rjquillin
Well hopefully the brown look is the color of the bottle? I vaguely remember someone bringing a brown rose to a tasting once
@chipgreen @ScottW58
The interwebz last forever
@chipgreen @rjquillin
So will that memory
@rjquillin @ScottW58
Bottle is green but it does have a brownish tone in the pic for some reason. The wine was a deep golden color. You could see some age in the depth of color but definitely not brown!
I too am a simple meat and potatoes guy
@msten
Ohh nice work!
Green stuff was served under protest
@msten
Lol well at least you had some eggs in with the green stuff
Quack quack
@rjquillin outstanding
Just another bird before I start making beef for Italian beef sandwiches this week
Some insta pot Indian butter chicken with a damn fine bottle.
Some insta pot butter chicken with a damn fine bottle. Cause it was easy!
@ScottW58 So nice, you drank it twice!
With Marry Me Chicken. Only a couple left from a case that everyone enjoyed.
Grand daughters in town…
And there was more not pictured,
we ate too much…
Had some Ocelli last night with pasta. It was a delightful wine. Maybe a touch more fruit forward than my preferences.
I’m rarely in the chat but have been wondering for a while about drinking habits. Are people reducing? Are younger deal seekers showing up to casemates? Curious whether our habits are reflective of the broader trends. Apologies if this gets discussed regularly!
@canonizer There are passing references to buying less, or ignoring mortality and keeping up the pace. Great topic, perfect for the Pub I think.
@canonizer @InFrom
added the link for the Pub in the above post
Yes, there were leftovers, but I did have to open a new bottle.
And the leftovers from tonight (some not shown) are going into a bento for tomorrow.
Wimpy appetites yesterday
Wine I brought to a NE Ohio casemates dinner and the wallpaper border on the restaurant wall.
A good time was had by all.
@msten
What are the odds? That was a beautiful Bordeaux, thank you for sharing! Photo dump coming soon…
@chipgreen @msten Yes, it was very nice. I got home and realized I didn’t taste the Blueberry!
@chipgreen @msten @pjmartin
Outstanding!
@msten That’s wild!
@chipgreen @pjmartin
I left it with David, I still have one. It’s a dry red wine and if blinded you might rack your brain trying to figure it out. Yes, there is blueberry, but not the Erie Islands overwhelming and unmistakable blueberry that we find in northern Ohio wines.
more leftovers, of the baa and pasta variety for a change, with some token green stuff
clearly unfiltered
@karenhynes Nice selections!
'98 Generations CS, Flannery New York and Wagyu Ribeye, and stuff swmbo insisted on, excepting the corn.
2020 Ca’Del Grevino Pinot Noir Estate Vineyards
2012 Ty Caton Merlot Upper Bench Caton Vineyard
The Pinot is pretty good - earthy and fruity. Haven’t opened the Merlot yet but I’m thinking it’ll go well with a smoked lamb shoulder.
@klezman how was the Merlot?
@rjquillin Very good. In a nice spot.
Early Memorial Day gathering with 2021 Limerick Lane squatters hill zin, 2022 Iron Horse Chardonnay, heart of the vineyard and a very solid 2014 Woot Cellars Bonus Level Petite Sirah (pictured, center). No wine for the kids, of course. They had to settle for lower abv High Noons. Parenting is so easy!!
Finally did it and am very happy! Italian hot beef sandwiches (wet) with hot Giardiniera. Hardest part was taking my beef to my butcher and having him slice it thin. Man I love this
@ScottW58 Glad you liked it. That’s how it’s done in Chi-town. It would be so much easier if your Costco carried the frozen Buona Beef, like they do here.
@jmdavidson1
Joe Mantegna had a Chicago pizza and hot beef sandwich restaurant out here when I was working but it’s been closed for years and man I have missed those sandwiches, so I had to take matters into my own hands lol.
Lucky dog, we have nothing out here anymore
@ScottW58 how long until you just buy a meat slicer?
@klezman
Lol lol already looking on Amazon.
@ScottW58 Did you fly the bread in, or was that local?
@klezman @ScottW58 If you haven’t tried the beef here, ,K, you’ll love it. Not a shortage of good restaurants either
@InFrom
Local bakery
@jmdavidson1 @ScottW58 I had planned to get one for my return flight earlier this month, but I was delayed and had to go right to the airport. But having had the Philippe’s French Dip, I know what I’m in for and it’s good stuff!
A simple classic evening; Flannery ground New York
Homemade pizza, pink bubbly, Sandlands Carignan, Twisted Oak Cockamamie
too much bandwidth consumed;
closing out the weekend and done for the month
some Campo ribs with a’14 Ped Merlot
Unlikely as good as the Ty @klezman had, but serviceable nonetheless.
@rjquillin Campo back ribs?! Nice! The side ribs were quite decadent.
I’ve got two pieces left - rib roast and Coppa. No idea how I’m doing to cook them but I need to do it in the next 2 months!
@klezman
back ribs, not sure; it was a pouch of four.
For that Coppa, sous-vide is the way to go.
We did 27 hours and it was the best piece of pork I can recall, ever.
@rjquillin what temperature? I haven’t brought out the sous vide in a long time…
@klezman I’d need to find the piece again, but I think it was 65; seemed high, but whatever it was it worked.
https://eatcampogrande.com/blogs/cooking/the-ultimate-guide-how-to-cook-iberico-coppa?_pos=2&_sid=bdf22cced&_ss=r
First bottle of six and not as shrill as some of the notes I have read. Lemon a bit of baked apple, mineral and fine acidity. I will give my remaining bottles another year or so. Nice bottle with some Achiote Adobo fish and Carolina gold rice. Never enough bandwidth
@ScottW58
I am waiting until the month is over to take up any bandwidth that is left for May.
But a quickie coming up…
@chipgreen
Dang I was hoping to see your photo dump you promised the other day
@ScottW58
Haha, coming soon
Happy National Burger Day!
@chipgreen Ha! There’s another wine that wouldn’t make it to Alabama (reminded of the famous Cycles Gladiator fiasco).
@chipgreen I knew I had this somewhere among my files:
@Mark_L
Nice! I think I still have one bottle of that.
2016 Franny Beck Pinot Noir
A Montreal based rye with 7% German chocolate malted rye, a unique pour tasted in Montreal last month. Picked up the bottle in duty free on the way home. Never had anything like it.
2020 Reverdito Barolo with a ribeye
Braciole.
@msten rather young?
@rjquillin House Barolo at restaurant.
@msten That would explain it
2003 York Creek Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Estate
with some olive tapenade and truffled triple cream on sourdough for desert
The YC shows absolute no bricking; deep ruby almost purple to the rim
[no pics to preserve May bandwidth]
2007 Léo Joseph Lillian’s Cabernet, Lawrence Harrison vineyard, Napa
Chinese take out not worth a pic, is bandwidth a real problem here???
@ScottW58
No it is not.
2019 Kent Rasmussen Pinot Noir
Went well with homemade lettuce wraps. Drinking well.
@pjmartin @winedavid59
sure would like to see more of him here…
@karenhynes
You seem to have an endless supply of those!
@chipgreen @karenhynes not a bad thing to have in good supply…
@karenhynes
@klezman @chipgreen
Between you and @scottw58 that’s four this month alone
@chipgreen @karenhynes @klezman @rjquillin @ScottW58 Does it come out of your salary?
@chipgreen @InFrom @karenhynes @klezman @rjquillin
Sure but it’s easier if you have your SS check go directly to the winery lol.
@chipgreen @InFrom @karenhynes @klezman @ScottW58
@chipgreen @InFrom @klezman @rjquillin @ScottW58
LOL! I wish I had an endless supply. It’s actually been a few years since I’ve bought from them. I’ve just recently felt like tapping into my “nicer” stash. I deserve it, right?
@InFrom @karenhynes @klezman @rjquillin @ScottW58
Yes, you absolutely deserve it!!
Finally going to Anajak Thai tonight… So probably Riesling
@klezman
So how was it? We were going to go once but it was 110 degrees and no way I was going to sit outside
@ScottW58 was very good. Hard to imagine you haven’t gone before since it’s around the corner from your place. And I thought you were the one who told me about it!
The wine director was super fun. Did some tasting, learned a few things. Including that Augustine opened again.
Same boring sh*t as always on the plate… a little grocery store prime strip with stuff…
Casemateers at Mr. G’s where the wallpaper knows what you’re drinking!
@chipgreen well done!
Using all that bandwidth now, eh?
@klezman
Lol, hopefully there’s a little bit left for our Memorial Day weekend trip to Amish country. But I’ll wait until tomorrow for those.
@chipgreen @klezman
!NOTICE¡ you have exceeded your monthly bandwidth allocation and are hereby forbidden from posting additional images for the duration of the month.
impressively done
@chipgreen @klezman
Outstanding! Can’t wait for the next drop
@klezman @rjquillin
And only one dupe!
@chipgreen @klezman @rjquillin Nicely done! Bandwidth be damned, only half a day left anyway…ha!
@chipgreen Another great gathering. Can’t beat the food, the company and the wines were excellent too. Can’t say what the bandwidth was like …
Thought the bandwidth police might give me a warning but @chipgreen took the pressure off…it’s either a small roast or a big chop in the smoker, raw asparagus and radish salad…looks pretty simple to me
@kaolis Simply spectacular.
@kaolis @msten
Indeed! Although a simple man would have noted the delicious baked beans!
@kaolis
Wow, that chop!
@msten @ScottW58 they speak for themselves…
@kaolis @msten
True lol.