Greetings, This may well be our last trip to the 510 under current management. Wine du jour is Burgundy. The 510 Restaurant 510 Groveland Ave MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55403 Phone: 612-874-6440 I'm reposting Russ's notes from our last go. Here's a wag at who's coming. I'll ask Bob to up the reservation to 10 people. We'll be at/near/over the limit of 10 pours, so please please please be careful about the amount you are pouring and about sediment. Bob Betsy Lori Bill Nicolai Joyce Dave T Jim/Louise Ruth-less Fred Petters Roger (So far, Fred and Louise are "Maybes"). Regrets from Annette S, Warren G, Russ/Sue. Wine Enthusiast Vintage chart says: (2003 back to 1989) 2003 02 01 2000 1999 98 1997 1995 1993 Cotes de Nuits (red) 89 92 88 84 89 88 89 92 90 85 88 80 86 91 88 Cotes de Beaune (red) 89 91 87 84 88 87 90 91 91 85 87 NR 84 92 88 2000, 2001 may be ready. 1999 and older is probably ready according to them. Go to winemag.com FFI Cheers, Jim Burgundy at The 510 Restaurant Calm comfort and class All around and in the glass To soon it will pass ----- Forwarded message from The 30 Second Wine Advisor <wine(a)wineloverspage.com> ----- X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (smtp-relay.enet.umn.edu) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:08:49 -0500 (EST) To: jellings(a)me.umn.edu Subject: 30SecWineAdvisor - Wine haiku From: The 30 Second Wine Advisor <wine(a)wineloverspage.com> X-Sender: <wine(a)wineloverspage.com> THE 30 SECOND WINE ADVISOR, Wednesday, March 23, 2005 ________________________________________________________________________ TODAY'S SPONSORS: * CALIFORNIA WINE CLUB Wine Sale Going on Now! http://www.cawineclub.com?Partner_ID=winelovers * FRENCH WINE EXPLORERS Meet me in the Rhone! http://www.wine-tours-france.com/RhoneValleyWineTour.htm ________________________________________________________________________ IN THIS ISSUE * WINE HAIKU A lovely, creative wine "blog" that makes me wish I had thought of it first. * CAMPUS OAKS 2001 LODI OLD VINE ZINFANDEL A fruity Zinfandel from The California Wine Club wakes up my inner poet. * ADMINISTRIVIA Change E-mail address, frequency, format or unsubscribe. ________________________________________________________________________ WINE HAIKU In a field as tradition-bound and conservative as writing about wine, it is a rare and beautiful thing to encounter a concept so new and so appealing that upon encountering it you can only suck in your breath and say, "Damn! Why didn't I think of that?" I'm in just that state today, shocked and awed and immensely amused by the work of New York wine lover Lane Steinberg, who pens a delightful wine "blog" in which he posts periodic wine-tasting reports - always on red wines - in the strict poetic form of the Japanese haiku. Don't laugh. This is seriously good stuff. Antoine Rodet Gevrey-Chambertin (France) 1998 The nose was like dog Soaking wet from heavy rain But it drank like dreams Haiku - literally "short verse" in Japanese - is a deceptively simple verse form, said to have originated as a drinking-party game but turned into an art form by the 17th century Japanese poet Basho. Translated into modern English, haiku is a short, three-line poem. Strictly interpreted, it should include one line of five syllables, one line of seven syllables and a final line of five: Five syllables first Then exactly seven more With five to finish It's not counting syllables that makes haiku poetry, though, but choosing the words that will trigger an emotional response. Haiku, it is said, "by its very nature asks each reader to be a poet" because, if well-done, it all but forces you to come up with a vivid visual image that finishes the work that the poet started. Steinberg, who credits his elderly junior high school English teacher, Miss Gimpel, with introducing him rather unwillingly to haiku, clearly gets that. "It seems to me that haiku is the perfect vehicle to encapsulate all aspects of red wine, from the mysteriously sublime to the numbingly mundane," he said. "These haikus provide a quick blast of an impression without getting too specific. If the haikus are good, you should be able to taste them in your mind." With almost 60 wine haikus on his "blog" and counting, Steinberg does this very well indeed. I love 'em! Marquis Phillips Shiraz (Australia) 2002 A velvet hammer The blood of an animal Heretofore unknown Carmen Reserve Pinot Noir (Chile) 1999 Some people like this I could barely swallow it Mogen David's Ghost Damn, why didn't I think of that? ________________________________________________________________________ WEB LINKS: Lane Steinberg's Red Wine Haiku Review is online, frequently updated, at http://redwinehaiku.blogspot.com/ Steinberg welcomes E-mail comments, questions, even compliments, at lanealla(a)nyc.rr.com ________________________________________________________________________ PRINT OUT TODAY'S ARTICLE Here's a simply formatted copy of today's Wine Advisor, designed to be printed out for your scrapbook or file or downloaded to your PDA or other wireless device. http://www.wineloverspage.com/wineadvisor1/print050323.html ________________________________________________________________________ TALK ABOUT WINE ONLINE If you'd like to ask a question or comment on today's topic (or any other wine-related subject), you'll find a round-table online discussion 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=59735&mi… 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. It's been many years since I earned my bachelor's degree in English, and my days as a poet are well behind me. But, inspired by Steinberg's work, I couldn't resist taking a shot at posting today's tasting report in a somewhat less ethereal poetic form than haiku: ________________________________________________________________________ CAMPUS OAKS 2001 LODI OLD VINE ZINFANDEL There once was a big Zin from Lodi, Full of ripe berry fruit and melodi- ous oaky vanilla, as strong as a gorilla, A poem more vinous than ode-y. (March 21, 2005) FOOD MATCH: A delight both as an ingredient and an accompaniment to long-braised, tender lamb shanks, stripped from the bones and shredded in its own sauce over rigatoni. WEB LINK Campus Oaks is made by the Gnekow Family winery. Its Website, listed on the label, is currently down. http://www.gnekow.com/ FIND THIS WINE ONLINE: This wine is a current offering from The California Wine Club. 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