It’s my 45th this may and really good friends of ours 30th wedding anniversary (funny how 10 years and different life choices can make such a huge disconnect in some ways, but I digress).
My wife and I along with the two of them are doing Napa and Sonoma with reservations at french laundry as well as single thread farms.
In terms of single thread, if you had a $1,000-$1,300ish budget for a champagne, white, red wine night what would you choose?
(I can’t believe I’m about to ask this…but I also don’t remember anyone else asking it) is a .375 half bottle split 4 ways enough for everyone to get a sense of the wine and enjoy it? I’m thinking of a half bottle of champagne with an amuse bouche for example
*click on “explore our wine program” to see Rob’s list
Yes, that’s about half a glass per person. Plenty if doing multiple wines across multiple courses.
Thank ya Dave,
I’m down to page 41 and I’m horrified (I don’t get out much) but the 2019 Ceritas Heintz @ 150.00 might get me started.
Hey Rob, what’s jumping out at you?
2016 Paul Bara Special Club Rose 385
Any Caroline Morey Chassagne 1er Cru 350
2016 van Canneyt G-C Fonteny 285
Total $1020
Interesting how all bottle prices are neatly divisible by 5
Champagne: Collin, Marguet, Vouette et Sorbet Blanc d’Argile
White: Plenty of PYCM, Caroline Morey, Pillot in the $300-600 range; Albert Grivault Perrières 2016
Red: Mugnier Chambolle, Bartolo Mascarello, Giulia Negri Marassio
When we dined there a handful of years ago, the menu skewed towards sparkling and white wine. Depending on how much someone has to have red, you might be able to get away with a 375ml. I think that’s a talk you can have with the somm.
Champagne:
Ruppert leroy cognaux -155
Collin if u are willing to spend 100-150ish more
White
2019 Bernard Bonin tillet - 280
Red
2019 gibourg ruchotte - 995
All of the Marie-Courtin, Ulysse Collin Les Maillons, Ulysse Collin, Les Pierrières, Paul Bara, Spécial Club rose,
Emrich-Schönleber, Halenberg, Grosses Gewächs 2014
Pascal Cotat, Les Monts Damnés 2004
Château Simone, Palette, Provence 2012
A bunch of PYCM and Caroline Morey
Bodegas Riojanas, Viña Albina, Gran Reserva 1978 because it’s a birth year wine.
Were you born in '78?
Bodegas Riojanas, Viña Albina, Gran Reserva 1978 $440
If not:
Champagne
Marguet, Verzenay 2016 $210
White
Walter Scott, X Novo, Eola-Amity Hills 2019 $250
Vincent Dureuil-Janthial, Meix Cadot, Vieilles Vignes, 1er Cru 2019 $210
Red
Domaine Faiveley Clos Vougeot 2003 $360
Dessert
Keller, Kirchspiel, Rheinhessen 2006 $220
I might start with glasses of 2012 Dom. Or Ulysse Collin.
In the reds, a lot of it is painfully young or frightfully expensive. For aged wines that didn’t look too crazy, Musar, Charvin, Beaucastel, VT, and that 1994 Daumas Gassac (with a good decant).