Passionfish wines: Huet and Gonon, added Hirtzberger and 2016 Gonon

[Alan_Rath]

Let’s be realistic: If Applebee’s had that wine list, we’d be eating there too!

I still would not eat at Applebee’s. But I would drink there.

[Anton_D]

I ate at Applebee’s. Once. The best they had was Dewers. It was the night my Rover inadvertently ran over Bambi’s father, and left me stranded in BFE South GA, where I may have been the only person with full rows of teeth. I was desperate. It was midnight. I was hungry. I needed alcohol. Not wine, but the hard stuff. That Dewers - while not Macallan 18 - was nectar, elixir of the Gods. The food, however, was something one might find in a midden heap. I’m not sure any wine would bring me back there ever again. This was a rock bottom moment, never to be repeated again. And I stayed at a roadside motel, too. Oh the humanity…

That’s a top 1% of a first world problem!

I hope the thread count on those sheets wasn’t perilously low!

[PHuff]

Geez Merrill…I don’t know you, but you always came across to me on this Board as a chill person, a winemaker who loved nature and cats and people and food and wine…Your original post and follow-up posts on PassionFish seem way out of character for you. Did you just have a bad day? It’s ok, it happens to everyone…Maybe take a step back and come back in a few days. It’s your choice of course, but spur of the moment decisions are often regretted…

[Robert.A.Jr]

I felt nude and dirty under those covers, Anton. It was traumatic.

[B_Buzzini]

This is my last post on this thread or others.

Huet today…Gonon tomorrow…

I’m sorry…reading too many of alan and Jeremy’s posts…just couldn’t help myself!

[robert_creth]

That got weird

[John_Ammons]

Piling on to support Passionfish…I’ve been there at least a 1/2 dozen times, and the food has always been good to very good, perhaps with a little mediocrity sprinkled in. Would I go were it not for the wine list? Maybe, but with the list it’s a no-brainer when in Monterey or Pacific Grove. I do agree with Alan that the front room is the place to sit and provides a better experience.

Serious question: what restaurants where you’d want to enjoy a few bottles of good wine (even if it’s from your cellar) are better than Passionfish in PG or Monterey?

The list is interesting, many of the wines are hard to find, and the cost is usually less than at retail. And as mentioned there are lots of half bottles. Last time I was there I got a split of Kongsgaard The Judge for $90. It was awesome. This place is a total breathe of fresh air. Sure, I can see somebody having a randomly rough night there, but a general bashing of the joint is head scratching.

[Dave_H]

I think this exact thread exists a couple other times on this site.
I went to passionfish once a couple of years ago and my wife and I thought it was great. Food struck me as somewhat dated, as in not attempting to be of the moment, but that’s really not intended as a knock as everything we had was great. I’d go back—had a bottle of Dirty and Rowdy Semillon that was something like $30. C’mon.

[Bill_Tex_Landreth]

Geez Merrill…I don’t know you, but you always came across to me on this Board as a chill person, a winemaker who loved nature and cats and people and food and wine…Your original post and follow-up posts on PassionFish seem way out of character for you. Did you just have a bad day? It’s ok, it happens to everyone…Maybe take a step back and come back in a few days. It’s your choice of course, but spur of the moment decisions are often regretted…

Not a winemaker.

[Joshua_Kates]

Huet today…Gonon tomorrow…

This is seriously good, Buzz! (Though I am sad to see Merrill go; I most always find her posts interesting–didn’t mean to pile on, just putting in my two cents.)

[Anton_D]

I felt nude and dirty under those covers, Anton. It was traumatic.

Welcome to my world. That’s how I feel inside my clothes.

[Anton_D]

This is my last post on this thread or others.

Huet today…Gonon tomorrow…

I’m sorry…reading too many of alan and Jeremy’s posts…just couldn’t help myself!

OK, now that’s funny. I am not commenting on the disagreement, simply complimenting that genius play on words.

[Martin_Steinley]

I went to Passionfish once. Once. We brought our wine

Like taking sand to the beach.

[Craig_G]

I went to Passionfish once. Once. We brought our wine

Like taking sand to the beach.

Do you realize how filthy the sand at the beach is? I always bring my own.

[Frank_Drew]

Assuming that Passionfish is a national chain (wrong?), wr had our office Christmas dinner at their Reston, Virginia branch a couple of years ago. I had no idea they had a good wine list because our boss/host is a teetotaler for religious reasons. The restaurant’s crab cakes, however, were as good as I’ve had anywhere, and this region makes a specialty of them.

[Mark_Y]

that’s a different passionfish… not a chain.

[Anton_D]

that’s a different passionfish… not a chain.

They built a Passion Fish in Pacific Grove. Once.

[Tom_G_l_a_s_g_o_w]

I ate at Applebee’s. Once. The best they had was Dewers. It was the night my Rover inadvertently ran over Bambi’s father, and left me stranded in BFE South GA, where I may have been the only person with full rows of teeth. I was desperate. It was midnight. I was hungry. I needed alcohol. Not wine, but the hard stuff. That Dewers - while not Macallan 18 - was nectar, elixir of the Gods. The food, however, was something one might find in a midden heap. I’m not sure any wine would bring me back there ever again. This was a rock bottom moment, never to be repeated again. And I stayed at a roadside motel, too. Oh the humanity…

The wife and kid play hockey?

[dteng]

I went to Arby’s once. Once. We brought our bottle from my date’s purse. The food was inedible. Sent it back twice. Maybe for out of towners looking to try some beef and cheddar, but I really do not understand the love for this place.

Did you bring the 61 Cheval Blanc?
Duh.

[Robert.A.Jr]

We need more Applebee’s stories!