Libation Station... "The Wine Shop Chronicles"

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Camping

This is my first attempt at using Googlee Docs to blog with. I've preferred Word in the past because of all the automatic editing bells and buzzers. As I learn more about ebb and flow, Word has become extremely restrictive and annoying because of formatting complexities that don't mix well with Googlee... like quotation marks showing up as question marks on the blog. So maybe this is my way to circumvent the unease of traversing competing software structures. Maybe not. Does this mean Googlee wins and Bill Gates, who we thought won, did not win? Will the still potential Yahoo acquisition escalate the war? We need a new war, don't we? The current one is getting really old.

We camped in the shop last night as there were many ado's to attend to. As I've stated before, I like sleep-overs here. At 6'2", I get the big couch. At 5'3", G gets the short, which is really short and she doesn't sleep well. Visits from friends, a Youthnet school art auction, a book club wine tasting, the usual Saturday crowd spurred on by the first Farmer's Market of the season and then to top it off, giddy anticipations in the way of a dinner invite from the people bringing us Food on the Brain. Since Argentina seems to be the theme, a chimichurri marinate fused on a flank steak brings hints of a Malbec. We do have an earthy one with notes of leather and subdued fruit which is tempting, but I just found an Argentine Syrah that I remember having extreme elegance and good acidity. Now I'm really giddy because I can taste that beef melting away with the tannins. Some trepidation exists with the marinate as I'm not sure how much vinegar is in play. But hey, without trepidation, where's the bliss of reward?

I finished Alice Feiring's book last night. She's quite the wine wench, but it would appear we need more such elves lurking earthward beneath the techno-surface. A few more knaves wouldn't hurt either... Mr. Dressner included. So as I get to the end chapter at 2AM, I'm picking up names of winemakers and importers that deal with biodynamic/organic/earth/wine friendy applications and I start pulling bottles off the shelf to check the labels and lo and behold, I have found a 2004 Nuits Saint Georges Clos de la Marechale from Jacques-Fredrick Mugnier. That being quite the mouthful, it also is imported by one Becky Wasserman. We also have her Jose Dhondt Champaign. Another find is a Catherine and Pierre Breton's Bourgueil Cab Franc. I remember this one. The layers are deep with greens and florals and leathers. I also remember these wines come from Triage in Seattle.

Triage = Dressner and Wasserman

Cavatappi = Kermit Lynch

Cordon = Weygandt

If you are in and around Seattle and want to try these magnificent displays of at least mostly biodynamic expression and can't get all the way up I-5 to see us (it is a nice drive, BTW), drop these names at your local wine shop and enjoy.

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