Berserkers, what are you planning to open this Saturday night?
TBD, but it’s going to be a Champagne!
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Going to a Markus Molitor dinner at Ilis so lots of Riesling!
Oh, thank you for posting this. I’ve been looking for a reason to crack a birth year wine. (My birthday is in January so Dry January has gotten in the way of late.)
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One of the major reasons I will never do Dry January!
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Happy belated bday, Patrick!
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Just do damp January.
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I do my dry breaks at other times.
2020 Ultramarine!
But in all seriousness, my wife is on antibiotics right now so we might open a '02 Nicolas-Francois next weekend.
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Same here. We are not terribly religious (or, at least, not ostentatiously religious) but we do tend to follow the Catholic liturgical calendar — meaning we are dry for Advent and Lent. I also usually find no desire to have wine during the hottest part of the summer so often July becomes sorta dry some of the time. The timing makes a difference to us: going dry in Advent and avoiding “holiday”parties allows us to anticipate the joy of Christmas, for example. We don’t experience Christmas as the culmination of a season but the beginning of one. Lent is similar. Just works for us. Apologies for thread drift, will rectify with another post.
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I guess I better start warming up for Under the Volcano April.
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Kneel before Zod and drink!
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I never draw the right allusion:
“Santiago/ Under the volcano/ floats like a cushion on the sea./ Yet I can never sleep here,/ Everything ponders with the night”
Maybe I am old and out of the loop…is there something notable about this Saturday night?
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Open That Bottle Night (as OP noted in the title) is this Saturday. Then again, for most of us Berserkers, that could be any other night as well.
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Funny, was just thinking about this. We are doing dinner with some close friends . I’m thinking 85 Lalande.
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I had to look it up:
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John, that helps a lot. I’ve been doing this wine thing for 3 decades and I had never heard of this event. Thanks for sharing that with me.
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My bad, Frank. I figured you had had a brain fart.
Cheers
I tend to affix memories to a lot of things I open. I never thought of a day devoted to it. Cool idea.
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