Oysters and Muscadet: Does it get any better?

WINE TALK
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I agree. Lots of other excellent matches but good Muscadet is tops for me, especially with the briney oysters I love.

22

Fino and Manzanilla are also great company with raw oysters.

23

Me, I’d go with some good Southern Fried Chicken and a flight of rosé including Camille Saves, something Spanish and Palama Metiusco Salento Rosado.

While on the subject, here’s a GREAT song about electric chair meals:

Well, I heard the warden said.
I had one more day.
One last meal before they carried me away.

He said if we don’t got it.
We’ll go out an’ get it.
Because you don’t have to go.
Til we get back with it.
So I said, ‘Hmmm’.

A-bring me two dinosaur eggs over easy.
Fried in the butter an’ not too greasy.
Muskees and bean, black-eyed peas.
An’ a little small dish of buttered bee-balm beans
I want-a zebra tooth, a tiger steak
An whole hippopotamus, well baked.

Now go, get my dinner, go.
Get my dinner.
You ain’t got it, go out an get it.
‘Cause I ain’t goin’, til ya get back with it.

Now bring me a cup of crocodile tears.
Purple watermellon an some alligator ears.
An bring me two cross-eyed cat fish.
An some wavy gravy in a left-hand dish.

Now go, get my dinner, go.
Get my dinner.
You ain’t got it, go out an get it.
‘Cause I ain’t goin’, til ya get back with it.

(Instrumental & guitar solo)

Now bring me a order of rattlesnake hips.
The split of his tongue bring me both of his lips.
Now ya have my order so serve my dish.
With a female banana I just can’t resist.

Now go, get my dinner, go.
Get my dinner.
You ain’t got it, go out an get it.
‘Cause I ain’t goin’, til ya get back with it.

Go on, get it now.
Don’t worry about me, cause I ain’t goin’ nowhere.

FADES-
Hey! Don’t forget the hot sauce!

24

Steamed lobster, drawn butter and Georges Vernay Condrieu would be my choice.

Dauvissat Chablis with oysters is pretty fine, too…but the above would be my “electric chair” pairing…though I might prefer a pizza.

Frankly, I can never understand how people even can eat anything at that stage. I always think that if I got a death sentence of any kind, I’d really live it up, but…I doubt I’d have the appetite or strength. hitsfan [cry.gif]

25

I’ll take Bouzigues oysters with Picpoul de Pinet…and preferably lakeside rather than Death Row. Yeah, screw that; they’ll never take me alive!

26

I think muscadet is the best pairing with raw oysters. Champagne and Chablis work well, but I find them to be a little too serious and over power the oyster. Muscadet is light and refreshing with good minerality…great match!!

27

I guess the electric chair is a pretty good occasion for oysters. If you end up eating a bad one, it won’t matter.

28

I don’t chime in to often here but this post forced me to add my 2 cents worth …

I must’ve died at least ten times (w/o a chair) when devouring a “Cadillac Oyster Sampler”, from “I LUV BLU SEA” Seafood, with a bottle of Madame Clicquot. [thumbs-up.gif]

Absolutely orgasmic as my wife always sez. [swoon.gif].

Now I gotta try 'em with a Muscadet.