Thursday, March 17, 2016

A Wine Girl's Call....



 Oh I know what you want. Been doing this so long I can almost smell it mixing with the sweat on your skin, see it through the stiffness in your gate, feel the relief when you stand beside me, your heart beating against your ribcage…because it knows, it knows that I won’t bat an eye at your kinky little peccadilloes, matter of fact making sure your pecc and dilloes tingle is what I’m here to do. Makes no difference to me what gets you off…just my job to make sure that you do so you’ll know just where to come when that desire, that almost painful, naughty itch creeps upon your flesh once again. You need only come see me, I’ve got what you need.






Don’t be ashamed or feel uncomfortable when I ask you the standard questions; what you’re into, how much you’re willing to shell out for your little spin on the pleasure wheel. I don’t ask to pass judgment and I don’t keep a little black book…..discretion is my job and seeing as I’m facilitating this sultry little rendezvous, well my fingers are already all up in your Kool-Aid as it were. I ask for one reason and one reason only….to ensure that the pleasure you seek, however you seek it, is given and given so well that you will be back for more. Get your sticky on kids, mix it up, take a couple if you’ve got that “spice of life” feeling, take your ride long and slow, like I said, makes no difference to me how you do it, I just want you to do it and I’m just here to help.





I see that look in your eye. I can feel the ache in your throat. Its been too long Honey and that swerve of yours, it needs a supple, sweetly scented spot to, get on. 




You need only come see me
I've got what you need. 

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Brilliance In The Wake Of Disaster









“You see here, these dimples in the vines, those are from the hail” Mark Fincham, winemaker at Marchand-Tawse, (for the reds anyway) standing with us in a recently purchased vineyard in Burgundy’s Cote de Beaune. I was there with importer Aline Thiebaut of Aliane Wine in the spring of 2014. Mark went on to tell us the Marchand-Tawse was able to acquire this vineyard because the ravaging hail in late July the year before had so devastated the vineyard and with no wine to sell and loans to be paid the owners decided to hang up their viticulture gloves. A couple of small vintages back to back and then the hail in 2013 hits leaving some vineyards reporting 50% less to zero yields? Well it caused many in the area to rethink their trade. 



2013 started out with late flowering do to a particularly frigid spring which caused problems with yield and uneven ripening. The summer was late to arrive and then that late July hail storm that tore through the Cote de Beaune like an alligator, ripping off and destroying fruit and chomping fiercely at the vines. The hardest hit were Beaune, Savigny, Volnay and Pommard, the latter seeing this kind of damage for the second year in a row. Those outside the hail zone struggled with very slow ripening and pushbacks of harvest until October, 2013 being the latest harvest since 1991 in fact.









All that said, with patience and meticulous triage, or sorting, especially with the reds, the end result was a tiny bit of extremely high quality Pinot Noir and beautifully focused and precise Chardonnays. We stood in the icy, slightly empty cellar art Marchand-Tawse in Nuits-Saint-Georges with Mark, discussing and tasting the very young 2013s from barrel, all of us remarking on the purity and absolute splendor of the aromatics they were exuding, and the lacy, regal way the wines entered the palate. It is precisely vintages like 2013 that show us the true mark of great winemaking, from vineyard to barrel is all about. The wines from Marchand-Tawse are truly thrilling and thankfully for us we were able to acquire a miniscule amount of those gorgeous 2013s and we can’t wait to share them with you.






Friday March 4th, 7:30 PM we will be joined by very special guests Mark Fincham and Aline Thiebaut and silly old me of course, where will be featuring 10 wines from this hard fought for but gloriously triumphant 2013 vintage and hear from the winemaker himself what it took to give us these perfectly vintage and place accented wines. 







Wines Featured



2013 Marchand-Tawse Bourgogne Rouge $26.99

2013 Marchand-Tawse 47 N Bourgogne Pinot Noir $31.99

2013 Marchand-Tawse Beaune 1er Cru Tuvilains $51.99

2013 Marchand-Tawse Chambolle-Musigny $69.99

2013 Marchand Maume Gevrey-Chambertin $62.99

2013 Marchand-Tawse Morey-Saint-Denis 1er Cru Clos des Ormes $73.99

2013 Marchand-Tawse Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Perriere $83.99

2013 Marchand-Tawse Grand Cru Echezeaux $207.99

Whites

2013 Marchand-Tawse Meursault $57.99

2013 Marchand-Tawse 1er Cru Puligny-Montrachet Champ Gain $96.99



March 4th

7:30 PM

$55 per person

Reservations are required 

So damn good to be back to work. 'Bout to splash about in my inspirations and junk.