SAn JOse, CA-area BYO wine dinner Potsticker King Fri. Feb. 13: Still On

George_Chadwick · February 6, 2015, 10:18pm

See first post for list of attendees so far.

Craig_G · February 13, 2015, 12:46am

Still on?

Craig_G · February 13, 2015, 12:47am

What time?

Craig_G · February 13, 2015, 5:06pm

Am I on mute?

Alan_Rath · February 13, 2015, 5:30pm

Or mute?

Patrick_Friel · February 13, 2015, 7:34pm

I need a time too or will assume it is off… unless Alan and Craig want to sit in the parking lot and drink. I recall there being some mature trees near the road. We can sit up against them. I’ve got some acrylic stems I can bring.

George_Chadwick · February 13, 2015, 7:45pm

Arrive 6 pm but this is one offline where being late shouldn’t matter. I’ll be there at 5:30. Oh ye of little faith…

Patrick_Friel · February 13, 2015, 7:56pm

Sounds good. See you there.

Alan_Rath · February 13, 2015, 9:03pm

Damn, I wanted to sit in the parking lot and drink out of plastic cups.

ATaylor · February 13, 2015, 9:41pm

Would love to sit in on this, but 6 pm is just too darn early for us Euro types…and southbound on a Friday night of a 3 day weekend is going to be a pig.

Craig_G · February 14, 2015, 7:10am

Nice to see everyone, and a pretty fair set of wines for the venue, which was great! Thanks George for organizing and everybody for the wines.

Patrick_Friel · February 14, 2015, 10:40pm

Lots a great wines last night and nice to be back at the Pot Sticker King for the first time in years.

Thanks for organizing it, George!

Alan_Rath · February 15, 2015, 4:42pm

Nice to catch up with everyone, particularly George! Conversation will never be dull when George is at the table

Lots of really good wines, great variety, thanks to everyone for such interesting contributions. A few pictures:

Wes_Barton · February 16, 2015, 12:19am

Nice pics. It was fun hanging out with everybody, drinking excellent wines, and listening to George talk all night.

Craig_G · February 16, 2015, 1:10am

The best part was the look on Susan’s face when I tried to get George to drink his giant dump-bucket glass.

George_Chadwick · February 20, 2015, 11:19pm

I started a TN thread on the main board

George_Chadwick · February 20, 2015, 11:23pm

I was excited!

Craig_G · February 25, 2015, 3:35am

I just finished the last little bit of that Soliste Ambroisie. I still don’t know what to think of it but it gradually dropped some of the happy fruitiness it showed when we first had it. It looks to be nearly immortal: There was no real sign of oxidation even though the last several days were spent with only an ounce in the bottle.

I was a little surprised at the initial showing. I drank the '11 Foret about a week before and it was indistinguishable from Burgundy to me.

In the meantime I opened their 2012 L’Age D’Or Chardonnay. That is a really impressive wine, maybe the best I’ve had from CA (and not so crazy expensive at $50). It has that grippy texture I love in Chardonnay, not quite to the level of Raveneau but in that direction.

George_Chadwick · February 28, 2015, 12:09am

I thought that Ambroisie was ridiculously young and awkward even at the end of the evening. The oak (which to me is clearly not excessive) is still separate from the juice.

George_Chadwick · February 28, 2015, 9:01pm

And I think I repeated that 42 times. Along with other opinions. I hugged the syrah at one point. I might buy some of that Italian wine Pat brought. Probably will.