Greetings,
Looks like this didn't go out on Monday as planned.
C
J
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:58:47 -0500
From: "Jim L. Ellingson" <jellings(a)me.umn.edu>
To: wine(a)thebarn.com
Subject: Sangiovese at Trattoria Da Vinci
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Lots of good food, wine at Corner Table.
This week, it's Sangiovese from Chianti and most anywhere
else at at Tratoria Da Vinci
Thursday, 6:30 p.m.
Trattoria da Vinci
400 Sibley St., St. P, 55101
651 222-4050
Lori
Bob
Betsy
Warren, Ruth, Ruth's Brother.
Jim/Louise
Any others would be just guesses...
We can do a the Champagne Brunch at Bobino some Sunday
if we are interested.
Cheers,
Jim
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:22:58 -0400 (EDT)
To: jellings(a)me.umn.edu
Subject: The 30 Second Wine Advisor - Report from a wine festival
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THE 30 SECOND WINE ADVISOR, Monday, Aug. 30, 2004
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IN THIS ISSUE
* REPORT FROM A WINE FESTIVAL We visit a memorable annual gathering
of wine friends.
* A MOCOOL TASTING SAMPLER A tantalizing selection from the
weekend's wine reports.
* CALIFORNIA WINE CLUB Something New and Exciting!
* THIS WEEK ON WINELOVERSPAGE.COM Au Revoir to Julia, and a whiff
of garrigue.
* LAST WEEK'S WINE ADVISOR INDEX Links to recent articles in the
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REPORT FROM A WINE FESTIVAL
This past weekend brought the annual "MoCool" festivities, a non-
profit, cooperative gathering of Internet-connected wine lovers
who've been getting together at this time every year since the
early 1990s in Ann Arbor, Mich., for a session of good wine, good
food and good friends.
As I've written at greater length in my online reports (links
below), "PIGS Will Fly" was supposed to be the year of the "scaled-
back" MoCool, a back-to-the-basics event that would return to the
simpler, smaller roots of this 13-year-old tradition in the form of
a one-event, one-day picnic for online wine lovers from the Midwest
and beyond, called "MoCool" after its full moniker, "MOtown Co-
Operative Off-Line Tasting."
It was difficult to detect any real reduction of fun, food, wine or
fellowship in the weekend's official and unofficial events.
Everyone brought wines in that kind of amiable wine-enthusiast
attitude that has nothing to do with snobbery or trying to outdo
your peers but everything to do with sharing wines that you really
like in company with friends who feel the same way.
Many thanks go, as usual, to all the volunteers who made this
venture a huge success. A tremendous amount of work behind the
scenes goes into MoCool, and the work of the organizing committee
should not go without public thanks and praise.
I've put my brief reports online, along with some photos and my own
tasting reports on about 60 wines tasted over the weekend. You can
read them by clicking the links at the top of our MoCool Home Page,
http://www.wineloverspage.com/mocool/index.shtml
or visit the three individual events pages:
* "Unofficial" Friday gathering:
http://www.wineloverspage.com/mocool/mocool082704.phtml
* Hotel tastings: Mas La Plana, Allegrini:
http://www.wineloverspage.com/mocool/maslaplana.phtml
* Saturday Picnic, "PIGS Will Fly"
http://www.wineloverspage.com/mocool/mocool082804.phtml
If you're interested in next year's event, the MoCool Home Page
also contains a sign-up form for the organization's E-mail list.
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TALK ABOUT WINE ONLINE
If you would like to comment or ask questions about today's topic
(or other wine-related issues), you'll find a round-table online
discussion about this article in our interactive Wine Lovers'
Discussion Group, where you're always welcome to join in the
conversations about wine.
http://www.myspeakerscorner.com/forum/index.phtml?fn=1&tid=53449&mid=454151
If you prefer to comment privately, feel free to send me E-mail at
wine(a)wineloverspage.com. I'll respond personally to the extent that
time and volume permit.
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A MOCOOL TASTING SAMPLER
You'll find more than 60 brief tasting reports online at the links
above. To whet your appetite, though, here are a few of my comments
on noteworthy wines of the weekend, focusing on wines that may
still be available in local retail channels rather than essentially
unattainable cellar treasures.
DREW 2001 PURISIMA MOUNTAIN SANTA YNEZ VALLEY (CALIFORNIA) GRENACHE
- Raspberries, luscious and ripe. Good acidity for balance.
FAIRVIEW 2001 PAARL (SOUTH AFRICA) SHIRAZ-MOURVEDRE - Grapey, but
good earthy notes and acid balance.
LAS ROCAS 2001 SAN ALEJANDRO CATALAYUD (SPAIN) GARNACHA - Garnet.
Raspberry and caramel, a touch of sweetness over a crisp acidic
core.
TORRES 1998 MAS LA PLANA PENEDES CABERNET SAUVIGNON - Dark garnet.
Clean scent, spicy oak. Sweet fruit, smooth but substantial
tannins. Fresh, clean but unevolved fruit.
ALOIS LAGEDER 2003 ALTO ADIGE (ITALY) LAGREIN ROSE - Pretty pale
rosy pink. Lucious strawberry aroma and flavor, dry and crisp, an
exceptionally find rose wine.
PAPE JOHANNOU 1999 NEMEA (GREECE) OLD VINES "ST. GEORGE" - Dark
garnet. Spicy red-berry frult, crisp and "sweet," a good, subtle
red wine capable of standing up to international competition.
PANARROZ 2003 JUMILLA - Fragrant pepper and big, sweet berry fruit.
An excellent Monastrell (Mourvedre) from Spain.
LAURENCE FERAUD 2003 "PELICAN" VIN DE PAYS D'OC (FRANCE)
GRENACHE/SYRAH - A bomb of raspberry frult with good acidity and
spice. Sold under $10, a crowd-pleasing wine of real value.
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THIS WEEK ON WINELOVERSPAGE.COM
Here are links to some of our recently published articles that I
think you'll enjoy:
* DAVE MCINTYRE'S WINELINE: Au Revoir, Julia!
Julia Child, who died this month a few days shy of her 92nd
birthday, was an inspiration to all of us who care about food and
wine, whether we realize it or not. In his WineLine No. 45, writer
Dave McIntyre offers her a fond "au revoir" and "bon appetit!
http://www.wineloverspage.com/mcintyre/wineline45.phtml
* WINE LOVERS' DISCUSSION GROUP: What the heck is "Garrigue"?
This French term turns up from time to time in wine-tasting notes -
Robert M. Parker Jr., for one, is fond of it - but it's not a
meaningful term unless you have traveled in Provence or the
Languedoc and sniffed the herbal scents that infuse the air of the
region. Reader Tom Hill requests, and receives, definitions in our
Wine Lovers' Discussion Group,
http://www.myspeakerscorner.com/forum/index.phtml?fn=1&tid=53366&mid=453623
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LAST WEEK'S WINE ADVISOR INDEX
The Wine Advisor's daily edition is usually distributed on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays (and, for those who subscribe, the
FoodLetter on Thursdays). Here's the index to last week's columns:
* PIGS will fly this weekend (Aug. 27, 2004)
http://www.wineloverspage.com/wineadvisor1/tswa040827.phtml
* Summer sippers and beach novels (Aug. 25, 2004)
http://www.wineloverspage.com/wineadvisor1/tswa040825.phtml
* Picking wine for a party (Aug. 23, 2004)
http://www.wineloverspage.com/wineadvisor1/tswa040823.phtml
* Complete 30 Second Wine Advisor archive:
http://www.wineloverspage.com/wineadvisor1/thelist.shtml
* Wine Advisor FoodLetter: Salmon and potatoes (Aug. 26, 2004)
http://www.wineloverspage.com/wineadvisor1/tsfl040826.phtml
* Wine Advisor Foodletter archive:
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