No Manischewitz here. I opened a bottle of 2007 CastelGiocondo (Frescobaldi) Brunello di Montalcino. Excellent.
I like chardonnay and ripe whites with my appetizing. Tonight, opened some cheaper wines for non-geek guests (this is a night where I’d rather spend it on sturgeon); one successful and another a complete disaster.
2010 Domaine du Poujol Vin de Pays de l’Hérault Pico - France, Languedoc Roussillon, Languedoc, Vin de Pays de l’Hérault (10/4/2014)
Very nice. Lime, honey. Fresh acid. Touch of florals and chalk. Paid $13 for this and it’s very good QPR at that price. (87 pts.)
2012 Clotilde Davenne Bourgogne Blanc - France, Burgundy, Bourgogne Blanc (10/4/2014)
Not good even compared to other Bourgognes. Dilute, tart, with simple lemon fruit. Picked too early? Completely lacking in character. Like a bad Petit Chablis. (81 pts.)
Brick House Pinot Noir Rose - went well with Lox, Whitefish, Herring etc.
Tito’s
Excuse my ignorance, is it coincidence that this falls at the same time as Eid this year?
We are in an enforced alcohol free weekend (pork too) ending about now… 
Windy Oaks.
Jay - why was I supposed to be fasting? Do you mean breakfast? I had tea. But Thursday I had Garnacha, Friday I had Chardonnay, and tonight I’m having Zin. It felt like a fast because I was really really really thirsty all day and I didn’t want to break out any wine in the afternoon!
Anyhow, here’s to you amigo! ![[cheers.gif]](/uploads/db3686/original/2X/0/0ff9bfcdb0964982cd3240b6159868fbdf215b1a.gif "cheers"){kind=small}
To begin:
A nice glass of water
Followed by:
A big glass of orange juice
and
A shot of Johnny Blue.
I believe it is a coincidence and that the following explanation is correct, but I am not completely sure. It is based upon what I learned in Hebrew School, what I learned from my grandfather, and what I learned from the Egyptian guy who sells Gyros from a cart on the corner of 53rd and Third Avenue.
The Muslim calendar is lunar, as is the Jewish calendar, but I understand that the Muslim calendar, at least as to holidays, does not adjust for the difference between the lunar cycle and the 365.26 day year, while the Jewish calendar has a “leap month” to make the adjustment. Thus, the Muslin calendar causes holidays to occur at dates which do not correspond to the Christian calendar, while the Jewish calendar corresponds the the Christian calendar plus or minus 28 days.
Ah ok thanks Jay, yes the Muslim calender creeps forward around ten or eleven days a year.
Funnily enough I was born in the middle east, and being just under forty the ‘holidays’ are falling more or less at the same point as when my parents lived here, I was here until I was 4 or so.
2000 Charvin Chateauneuf du Pape. Excellent.
At a friends house, we opened:
2000 Numanthia Numanthia
2002 Abreu Madrona
2003 Quilceda Creek
2009 Rhys Horseshoe pinot
2012 Rivers Marie Sonoma Coast pinot
Abreu was terrific. The Rhys was great and will only get better as it integrates. RM was a crowd pleaser. I didn’t care much for the QC and the Numanthia was ok.
I ate way too much babka.
Maneshewicz for Havdala service.
Ferrand 1914 Cognac with dessert.
We did the Havdalah Service at the Synagogue and the Rabbi, who is my age and who has shared a few of my bottles of birth year wine, knows not to serve me Manischewitz.
2013 Gérald Besse Gamay Bovernier (Switzerland, Valais)
Not quite Beaujolais but still nicely crunchy.
I’m surprised at how many people are opening reds. You guys are having a cold, dairy meal, right? Reds have always been, to my palate, a horrible match for that.
Agreed. For the most part, the wine consumption took place after we had all eaten the main meal and the Nats/Giants game was “only” in the 6th or 7th inning. Dessert was to follow and the game went 17 innings, so …
Coffee! Couldn’t even think about wine with the headache I always have after fasting.
Surprising amount of wine showed up! A Mendocino red I’ve seen at Trader Joe’s frequently (name escaping me right now), some Edna Valley Vineyard 2012 Pinot, a 2012 Rioja, and 2009 Pedroncelli Dry Creek Merlot. Not a huge wine crew.
Yesterday was Yom Kippur – a major Jewish holiday that involves a day of fasting. The fasting goes from sun down (on Friday) to sun down (on Saturday). It is a serious holiday that focuses on repentance and forgiveness before the more raucous New Year’s celebration later in the week. More info here
Some of us less-than-observant Jews don’t fast, but I took the day off from wine as a minor sacrifice. Popped a '95 Pontet Canet to enjoy with NFL this afternoon.