KPB
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Joined: 11/25/2012 From: Ithaca, New York Status: offline
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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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Ken Birman The Professor of Brettology
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