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It’s Christmas Eve! - 12/24/2023 5:47:41 AM   
Ibetian

 

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Status: offline 		So what are everyone’s eating and drinking plans for the next couple of days?

Our tradition is baked fillet mignon for tonight and turkey with all the trimmings tomorrow.

We’ll probably drink bubbles at some point, plus 2000 Margaux, 2000 Lynch Bages ( both will get 3+ hours in the decanter) with a 2009 Pichon Baron as “back up.”

Merry Christmas!

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RE: It’s Christmas Eve! - 12/24/2023 7:30:55 AM   
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Status: offline 		Merry Fogmas from Chicago! Driving will be an adventure due to the fog (it's 25 degrees above average). Bringing a Vincent Pinot Noir to dinner tonight but it's a busy 2 weeks, so probably not much else until New Year's.

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RE: It’s Christmas Eve! - 12/24/2023 7:50:14 AM   
Claymonster

 

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Status: offline 		We're going full German (Bavarian). Weihnachtsgans, kartoffelknodel, and blaukraut for dinner tonight with leftovers for the next several days. And to drink, a Rheingau J.B. Becker Wallufer Walkenberg Riesling Alte Reben Spatlese Trocken. Whew, I'm out of breath just typing the full German wine name.

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RE: It’s Christmas Eve! - 12/24/2023 8:43:36 AM   
Eduardo787

 

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Status: offline 		We go to my in laws as every year for the last 25 years. We are 14 in total and we gather at around 5pm or so and start drinking either beer, tequila, or wine. Mother in law serves pork loin with some kind of cherry sauce , spaghetti with cheese, garlic bread, and salad. All of my extended family do not know or appreciate one good wine from a lambrusco or a cheap gamay, nevertheless I always bring a couple of wines that I know I will enjoy and I also bring my beloved wine glass because my in laws do not have nice wine glasses.

At around 10 or so we come back to the house and do whatever. Next day at around 1 pm we go back to the in laws to eat very hot pozole and leftovers. We play some games, give presents to your secret santa ( this year is my brother in law and I am giving him a premium bottle of reposado Tequila). After a few hours I am WAY to drunk and I always sleep in a couch they have over there for an hour or so....then we head back to home.

This year Santa is bringing my daughter a Mazda CX30, so tomorrow morning I have to go to a parking lot to pick up the SUV and bring it in the morning and put a cloth around the car . Santa will bring her a small box with the keys inside, so she will immediately will run outside to our garage and see the car there.
My son will get some cash so he can use it however he wants.

Still deciding what wine I wanna drink today. I might decide for the Armenian red and something else.

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RE: It’s Christmas Eve! - 12/24/2023 9:26:12 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Claymonster

We're going full German (Bavarian). Weihnachtsgans, kartoffelknodel, and blaukraut for dinner tonight with leftovers for the next several days. And to drink, a Rheingau J.B. Becker Wallufer Walkenberg Riesling Alte Reben Spatlese Trocken. Whew, I'm out of breath just typing the full German wine name.


I think you're going to win the "Longest Christmas Wine Name" Contest!

Our larger family gathering is tonight, and there will be some bubbly with apps (my girlfriend's dad always brings the Champagne; not sure what it will be), then for dinner we're doing prime rib, and I've got a couple of bottles of 2012 Andrew Will Ciel du Cheval Vineyard (a Bordeaux blend) lined up, then crème brûlée for dessert, possibly with a Sauternes, but we'll see.

Tomorrow night will be lasagna, with a 2013 Fattoria di Fèlsina Berardenga Chianti Classico Riserva Rancia.

Yum, yum, and yum!


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RE: It’s Christmas Eve! - 12/24/2023 9:38:57 AM   
dad300

 

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Status: offline 		Tonight is prime rib. Very simple with potatoes and veggies. We will be opening 2018 Fidelitas Quintessence cab and a 2015 j j prum graacher Himmelreich Spatlese.
Tomorrow mimosas in the am then off to a dry dinner with inlaws of lasagna and cheese board.


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RE: It’s Christmas Eve! - 12/24/2023 10:48:11 AM   
wadcorp

 

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Status: offline 		Who's Eve, and why are you reminding her about Christmas.

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RE: It’s Christmas Eve! - 12/24/2023 10:57:58 AM   
CranBurgundy

 

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ORIGINAL: wadcorp

Who's Eve, and why are you reminding her about Christmas.

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Thread winner!

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RE: It’s Christmas Eve! - 12/24/2023 10:59:07 AM   
BobMilton

 

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Status: offline 		Tonight is a small dinner with my wife's oldest daughter and her husband. Tomorrow morning is our usual family get together and breakfast. Tomorrow night is a larger extended family dinner. Then time to hibernate!

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RE: It’s Christmas Eve! - 12/24/2023 11:08:36 AM   
DoubleD1969

 

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Looks great everybody! Merry Christmas to all!

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RE: It’s Christmas Eve! - 12/24/2023 11:13:04 AM   
wadcorp

 

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RE: It’s Christmas Eve! - 12/24/2023 11:21:21 AM   
CranBurgundy

 

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RE: It’s Christmas Eve! - 12/24/2023 2:16:21 PM   
KPB

 

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Status: offline 		In Ottignies for the holiday… Due to various constraints we can’t assemble the family until Tuesday. So the plan here in Belgium was for a raclette tonight, boudin blanc and noir tomorrow, and a haunch of venison for our family dinner. My wife and I however decided to skip the heavy dose of cheese.

Instead, we retired to our hotel in Louvain La Neuve. Dinner was actually quite good: they had a fancy prix fix, but we opted instead to eat in our room where Anne had croquette de crevettes and a seafood salad, while i started with a mille feuille stuffed with foie gras and followed it with a blanquette de veaux. Anne wasn’t drinking, but I got a half bottle of a 2020 Lafleur Lambaret (a GC red Bordeaux).

So all in all, a very nice New Years eve with my wife. And many meals still to go, with some great wines to pair with them: 2018 Greer, 2014 Olga Raffault La Singulière, an excellent 2020 Chassange Montrachet from Philippe Colin, beyond which I have additional options as needed. Those include the 2019 Greer, but it was a bit tight last time I tried it and I have a note to myself to wait three years… and I have some Rayas stashed here too.

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RE: It’s Christmas Eve! - 12/24/2023 9:38:20 PM   
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So all in all, a very nice New Years eve with my wife.

And I thought that I was in the timezone that comes first!

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RE: It’s Christmas Eve! - 12/25/2023 6:25:50 AM   
musedir

 

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Status: offline 		Last night’s dinner was duck with an orange and chocolate sauce. It wasn’t bad at all.

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RE: It’s Christmas Eve! - 12/25/2023 8:01:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		Speaking of Belgium and Christmas Eve and wine, last night I watched first episodes of Belgium TV series EEN GOED JAAR (A Good Year) which features bottles of 1937 Chateau Rycler found in the cellar of a WWII Resistance Fighter. His nephew uses them in an attempted scam which expands and adds accomplices (as well as not so innocent victims) in each entertaining episode. Of note, the owners of the still existent Chateau Rycler have a disclaimer on their website because the fictional scam involves Der Fuhrer's wine cellar.

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RE: It’s Christmas Eve! - 12/25/2023 10:17:21 AM   
S1

 

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Status: offline 		With family celebrations spread throughout the holidays, HRH and I are alone on Christmas Day for the first time ever.
So, with bellies aleady full of Turkey, ham etc...
Karb Rangoons
Oxtail Soup
Baoxi
Har Gow
Chicken Lo Mein


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RE: It’s Christmas Eve! - 12/26/2023 11:13:36 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: recotte

Our larger family gathering is tonight, and there will be some bubbly with apps (my girlfriend's dad always brings the Champagne; not sure what it will be), then for dinner we're doing prime rib, and I've got a couple of bottles of 2012 Andrew Will Ciel du Cheval Vineyard (a Bordeaux blend) lined up, then crème brûlée for dessert, possibly with a Sauternes, but we'll see.

Tomorrow night will be lasagna, with a 2013 Fattoria di Fèlsina Berardenga Chianti Classico Riserva Rancia.



Things that were excellent: bubbly, prime rib, Andrew Will, and lasagna.

Things that were not: corked Chianti. As I did not have a backup bottle on hand, we had more bubbles with the lasagna, and no one was unhappy.

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