Travesty at the French Laundry

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The Grinch stole Christmas and also made off with a number of spendy bottles from the vatican of food churches, including:

• Screaming Eagle 2002 $6500
• Screaming Eagle 2010 $3500
• Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 1988 $5750
• Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 1998 $3950
• Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 1999 $7950
• Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 2007 $3250
• Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 2008 $3500
• Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 2009 $4500
• Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 2010 $3950

…I know, right?  WTF is napa cab doing on this list?!!  Travesty.

What is this?…China?…in the 30s??!!!

So my friend asks me if I can recommend an earthy pinot for ~$20…(rimshot!)….$20/glass maybe…(rimshot!)…

…thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, you’ve been a great crowd; if you want to see more of my act, I’ll be here every Wednesday night this week…but seriously folks…I too like a wine to convey a sense of place, and I prefer that place not to be the inside of a jam jar, but $20?

Here, drink this.  I think there was some dirt in it, but the flavor was mainly dominated by THE BLOOD OF ANGELS…

dinner party leftovers

Meh.

Dead Wine

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-09/if-grateful-dead-s-music-were-red-wine-how-would-it-taste-elin-mccoy.html

Really?  Well, we already know the bouquet would be a sickening melange of cannabis, patchouli, and body odor.  We should probably also assume that one needs to already be high as a kite to find it at all palatable.  Is it a coincidence that the aim in this experiment is a sort of synesthesia, which just happens to be a side effect of LSD?  Really?

Maybe this is an indication that the winemaker needs to get out of his garage more often (or perhaps not at all).