What does snowskin mooncake mean to you in a tasting note?

WINE TALK
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Saw this note in cellar tracker. 2000 Antinori Solaia : Toasty, ashy and a hint of snowskin mooncake. Very dark color, with grippy tannins. There’s sediments in this wine.

This just struck me as interesting and gave me a good chuckle. I enjoy these unusual notes in cellar tracker. When I googled this the first line was a recipe from Malaysia. These look beautiful and labor intensive, but I still have no idea what they might taste like. By coincidence, in about an hour, my son arrives for a visit. He is working in Malaysia and I haven’t seen him for 8 months. Really excited to see him and maybe he can fill me in about mooncakes!

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Some regional snackfood?

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I was thinking LSD or maybe magic mushrooms.

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The same author used this twice: Tasting Notes - CellarTracker
Their profile lists them as being from Singapore.

I can’t say that I have ever tasted or smelled red bean paste in a wine, but perhaps if it was a more familiar experience for me? Mooncake - Wikipedia

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It means… two bottles in a night and sometimes moving into a third, to explore new regions, is just too much. [berserker.gif]

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Snow Skin Mooncake (recipe included): Snow Skin Mooncake (Chinese Crystal Mooncake) - Rasa Malaysia

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A first step in the fusion of the Asian and Western linguistic and culinary palate maps?

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I have prayed for years for a Zen influenced, minimalism loving wine scribe to arise out of the East and apply Japanese aesthetics to wine…

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Sounds like it.

I got a great sense of the wine the moment I read that descriptor.

A.

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Robert,
I saw that when I googled it. I hope you will make it soon and post a tasting note.

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They taste like chicken.

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You know, now that I think of it, wasn’t this one of Frank Zappa’s kids?

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I fear that Dr Mooncake is not our man, however…

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Oh, you’re right about that but I can still dream…

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Hmmm…went to the local Asian fusion joint and asked the waitress if I could check out some snowskin mooncakes…her response was not favorable…

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Until you explained that they really exist, I thought this had to be a “damn you autocorrect” moment and was trying to back into what the author might have really typed.

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Were you zipped up when you said it? Context is everything…

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What we need is a MSR and Loire-lovin’ Basho. TNs that are blissfully brief, yet endlessly evocative. A minimalist Terry Theise.

I like to wash,
the dust of this world
In the droplets of dew
-Matsuo Basho

(Referring, I’m sure, to Weingut Hirsch’s 07 Riesling Zöbinger Heiligenstein.)

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“A minimalist Terry Theise” is indeed the exact persona that I had in mind…we should have a trial run, encourage folks to post haiku tasting notes. It would at the very least be funny and entertaining.