New York, NY
Tasted Thursday, February 10, 2005 by Eric with 1,032 views
Today I spent the day with Brian Hider of The Pluckemin Inn figuring out how to help them further integrate CellarTracker into their upcoming launch of their restaurant.
After a morning discussing their goals at The Pluckemin and looking at their POS system at a smaller restaurant called 'Ocino', I headed into NYC with Brian to check out the inventory management system(s) at Le Bernardin. We stopped off en route at the wine bar at Morrell's, a truly impressive sight to see. I WISH Seattle had something, ANYTHING even close to this. Wow, 100 pours by the glass of interesting stuff, what a shame we had to dash after 20 minutes to meet up with our appointment.
After a brief meeting, we headed over to Cru for an early dinner. We sat down at the bar to peruse the truly impressive wine list (separate bound volumes for red and white that detailed something like 3,800 unique wines and more than 68,000 bottles, HOOHAH!) We grabbed a glass-pour of this crazy F.X. Pichler, and I could have ended the night with this impressive beast of a wine, wow!
As we sat down for our meal, we were bombarded by three separate amuse bouche courses (one with three different flavors), all while trying to finalize our wine choice and pick a la carte choices for our meal. Talk about over-stimulation, what a blast! I elected to have this capable but somewhat uninspiring young Chablis with a delicious course of roasted langoustine.
The next two courses were comprised of a truffled pasta dish (yumbo) and then some absolutely perfect lamp chops, and the 1986 Pichon was a particularly obvious deal on the impressive but somewhat pricey list. Man oh man, I am such a sucker for this Chateau!
That was the end of the meal, but after returning to my hotel room to catch up with email and write these notes, I broke into a couple of glasses of this beastly young Syrah courtesy of a bottle which Brian had left me with. Hands off if you are sitting on this youngster, as it needs some serious time to settle down!
2002 Domaine du Closel-Château des Vaults Savennières Clos du Papillon 90 Points
France, Loire Valley, Anjou-Saumur, Savennières
Mmm, this is right on the mark, very smooth and seamless yet amazingly rich with honey and mineral. I think the bottle in question had been open for a while, but compared to an earlier taste this was more integrated with nary a rough edge to be found. Frankly, it is stunning (and hard to believe) that this wine is packing in 14.9% alcohol, as it is just not obtrusive at all, gorgeous!
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