“Memory of a mortadella sandwich”

[oldr_n_wsr]

a taste that disappears on the palate immediately, but has a “long and persistent” flavour

Now I know I don't "get it".

[MajGenl.Meade]

A fool and his money are soon parted. Don't worry, oldr - you're smart!

[oldr_n_wsr]

n_wsr

[rubato]

A fool and his money are soon parted. Don't worry, oldr - you're smart!

Die and leave to your heirs the life you could have had, is smart? I like my heirs but I also know that once the motive of necessity is removed a problem is created which is harder to solve than most people are able. And someone who has never had to solve the problems of necessity is crippled more severely and permanently than a paraplegic.

Hmmm.

Once you have fulfilled the needs of security now and in retirement and made some reasonable provision for family and community the remainder should be spent on wine, women, song, and art. And women. I like women. Ok Art is good too. As long as the wine holds out.

"There's an artist imprisoned in each one of us.
Let him loose to spread joy everywhere." Bertrand Russell

Frugality is a relative, not an absolute, value. And money is a utility, not a value at all.

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

A-Men!

yrs,
rubato

[Joe Guy]

"Your consciousness serves subtle possibilities"

-DCW Generator

[MajGenl.Meade]

Well, for me it's a matter of spending the money on 2-3 great meals (or more) vs. wasting a ton on pretentious snobbery.

Once in a rare while I like to spend wildly on a bottle of wine (for me, that's $150 or so - clearly an amateur). Low level pretentious snobbery I suppose.

But I'm usually happier on more occasions with several $18 bottles and even (dare I say it), an $8.99 one and a half liter of Australian plonk.

[Burning Petard]

There have been some blind tastings with experts that demonstrated that many times they preferred the 20-50 dollar a bottle stuff to the stuff that was selling for 10X that.

(((((snailgate)))))

[MajGenl.Meade]

Yes, I've done some blind taste tests that prove it's taste and not cost that is the real factor. I printed out the full article for wife, daughter and very hip granddaughter. They laughed and laughed - a taste that disappears at once yet the flavour lingers. Bollocks! "Pretentious" quoth my wife; nods of agreement all round.

I'm surprised at how snobby some down to earth people can be

[Gob]

You have no soul Meade.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Just good taste, Taff

[Gob]

Spurs, and laughing Lenny, are not an indication one has any good taste.

[MajGenl.Meade]

...said Mr. "I've got all the Leonard Cohen albums and I wish I supported a decent top-flight international football club instead of those leeky chaps"

[Sue U]

Well, as to the OP, it's beautiful art, but is it food?

I'm a fan of fine dining, and I'm curious to try the ephemeral foams and such that now seem to be popular across the pond, but I generally favor a more traditional preparation of comestibles that indicate you're experiencing a meal rather than a memory; I'll make my own memories from the meal, thanks -- which is ephemeral enough in itself.

[Guinevere]

God knows I love beautiful and creative cooking, and I agree it is an art form. However, never once in my life have I thought someone's food was "like the Odyssey."

As for wines, I've found the $35-$75 range gives me everything I want and need from a lovely bottle (especially champagne), and I'm more than happy to drink plonk as my "house" wine. This summer its a French (loire valley) rose made from the relatively unknown Pineau d’Aunis grape that I can get in limited quantities early in the season for under $10 a bottle.

[Sue U]

This summer its a French (loire valley) rose made from the relatively unknown Pineau d’Aunis grape that I can get in limited quantities early in the season for under $10 a bottle.

411, plz.

[Guinevere]

I discovered (really, stumbled upon) this wine last summer --- I think I bought either a 3 or 6-pack from my fave local wine merchant and really enjoyed it, so this summer I bought a case. I'm down to three bottles left and June isn't over yet. Guess I'm switching to sangria some time soon .. better go stock up on some grenacha next ......

This review nails it:

http://fringewine.blogspot.com/2012/01/ ... omois.html

The second rosé that I was able to try was the Cave Cooperative du Vendômois bottling from the Coteaux du Vendômois AOC which I picked up for about $10. As you can see on the label, the wine is labeled as "Lieu-dit Cocagne," which I believe means that the grapes came from a specific parcel of land referred to as Cocagne, though I don't have any idea what or where that is. The wine is made by a cooperative comprised of 25 growers and about a dozen different winemakers who, together, farm about 160 hectares of land, about 50 of which are devoted to the Pineau d'Aunis grape. In the glass, the wine was a pale pink color. The nose was very aromatic, dominated by pink grapefruit and fresh strawberry fruits. On the palate, the wine was medium bodied with high acidity. There were flavors of watermelon, pink grapefruit and grapefruit peel with a touch of grassy herbaceousness that put me in mind of Sauvignon Blanc. The wine had the kind of wonderfully clean, minerally finish to it that makes you keep reaching for the glass.. This wine was beautifully perfumed with deep, pure fruit flavors and an electric nerve of acid that kept it bright and refreshing. THIS is the kind of rosé that I love to drink and at only $10 a bottle, it's really an incredible value.

AMEN -- what summer is all about!





http://www.klwines.com/p/i?i=1259949

Pineau d'Aunis is a dark-skinned wine grape variety whose story began in the Loire Valley in the Middle Ages. Despite once being popular with royalty on both sides of the English Channel, the variety is now increasingly rare, and is limited to a role in the rosés and light reds of the central Loire. It is valued for the gently peppery spiciness it brings to the area's rosé wines, a role mirrored by the Carignan and Tibouren used to make the famous rosé wines of Provence. When the elements grant the Loire a vintage with warm weather more akin to that found in Provence, Pineau d'Aunis is also capable of producing distinctive and interesting red wines.

http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2012/06/b ... er-15.html

Another French favorite, Coteaux du Vendomois Lieu-dit Cocagne from the Loire sells for $13.99 but is quite impressive, with a peachy scent and burst of tart grapefruit on the finish. It's made from the pineau d'aunis grape. I recently went to a little store tasting that offered this wine, and almost everyone who sipped it didn't leave until they'd bought a bottle to take home. This palate-cleansing refresher has a little herbal flavor that would make it a nice accompaniment to ham (or cold sliced lamb with mint.)

[MajGenl.Meade]

Pineau d’Aunis?

Didn't HM the Queen get into some bother after saying that?

[Burning Petard]

The worst wine I ever tasted was in the East Paris railroad station restaurant and I asked for 'wine, ordinary, red' and the best was a glass of very young white bordeaux in a restaurant tent at the 1962 LeMans 24 hour race. Memories.

[Sue U]

Cave de Vendomois Cocagne Rose

This item is not available for in-store pickup in your area.

This item is not available to ship to NJ.

Cave Cooperative De Vendome - Coteaux Du Vendomois Rose, Cocagne 2014
Continue Shopping
Price: $12.00
Sold Out

Cave de Vendomois Lieu-dit Cocagne Rose Coteaux du Vendomois
Out of Stock

[Guinevere]

Come to MA and I'll send you home with a bottle, But get up here soon, or I won't have any left!

Oh, and hey, at the festival opening I went to last week I met the owner of the French restaurant where we met on your last visit. Funny guy. I need to become his friend and go to that place more often!