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
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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?
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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:
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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.
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