I am hoping to make this blog a little nicer to look at. A bit more considered, now that I have finely attuned each one of my four or five cherished readers to my lack of postings.
Last night I drank some not all of a bottle of Houillon/Overnoy Savagnin 2000. At first it was so pungent in the nose that you think of something more akin to musk or truffles with an edge of acidity, if that is possible, and it was such a shock that I put down my glass!
But then I picked it up again and again. I just wrote down all these scents. Incomprehensible! And not really the experience at all. I kept smelling and smelling and tasting, and then a little bit of comté cheese and then another taste and all the time the wine engages you, dances with you, if you let it lead. Yes, please lead!
I must admit I was a bit scared to open up the bottle as I had a perfectly lovely white chinon chenin open and the reputation of savagnin in general is one of a challenging wine...But it was wonderful wild alive and really beautiful complicated wine that I won't hesitate again.
I can't wait to try it again tonight and see what it feels like showing me.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
"WIne is the Blood of the Grape"
From the Hours of Catharine of Cleves owned by the Morgon Library in New York. I saw this on Friday. There are many many wonderful images in this book and you can see them either online or the original (or most of it) on display as individual plates for maybe the only time for a very very long time as it is going to be rebound as one book after the exhibition.
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