Wednesday, September 3, 2014

My Chablis wine review for the NYTimes

Eric Asimov does a monthly column where he suggests a wine style and asks readers to write in their comments.
Your Next Lesson: Chablis

My writeup:
  Because this month was a white wine we didn't have the standard argument over whether the wine was wine-colored enough. The flavor was agreed to be wine, although we did get pear and mango suggestions, and someone throwing in grapefruit.  Our Stalinistic leader tried to  enforce the no red wine rule for extra bottles being brought in. A revolution was started anyway with a bottle of red and two bottles of Ratafia  Our host brought 4 bottles, the rest of the crew brought 7 bottles. Our best was 14 bottles the night we did beaujolais. Anything for an excuse to get together and drink wine.

The food was our standard potluck; appetizers, veggie dishes and pies. The quiche was wonderful.
 The outdoor deck was wonderful with fireflies entertaining us at dusk. A few tried looking for glowworms in the grass but were unsuccessful due to the inability to get down low enough without toppling.
  One participant tried to impress us with this description of the first bottle. It was flowery with a triangular aftertaste that lazered the taste buds with the creaminess of  peach melba although it still was not intellectually satisfying. I came back with, it was band-aid colored and flavored and not Teenage  Mutant Ninja Turtle ones.The box Chablis wine from 2011 was smelled and dumped. Even our non-discriminating tastes were offended. All in all a very good evening of wine food and friends.

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