Tips From The Wine Insider
Its not easy finding wines worthy of my refined pallet, especially with my inferior financial situation. The financial difficulty is due, in part, to the collapse of my little bistro, C’est Si Bon, and I find myself cursed to write food columns for bad web sites. I worked so hard on that little place, but North America is a barren land, a land devoid of sophistication where the inhabitants graze on frozen pizza and something they call the “Hungry Man”. Ah well, it is perhaps for the better. As they say, you can lead an American to fois gras, but you can’t make him develop a taste for food exceeding that of your average crotch sniffing canine.
But, on to my wine picks. These picks I have plagiarized from one of the few local sophisticates. I suppose this makes them someone else’s picks but what matters the source, if the result is a warm satisfied belly?
1. Jackson Triggs Proprietor’s Grand Reserve Merlot 2004. $26 at the Cambie and 8th as well as the big Cambie liquor stores. Big and jammy on the palate.
2. Château Pesquié Quintessence 2004 - Cotes du Ventoux — A Rhone wine, mainly Syrah. I have not tasted this yet, but it is supposed to better than the 2003 which I have had and was excellent. $30 at some B.C. Liquor stores.
3. I have also discovered some Mission Hill Oculus 2003 at the City Square private store and I think I will get a bottle or two as it is generally sold out. This is a Bordeaux style wine of which the 2003 is supposed to be spectacular and should be at $67. I have had the 97 recently which was probably the best wine I have ever consumed. I imagine the 2003 would benefit from considerably greater aging – probably a form of infanticide to drink it now.
There you have it, and two from Canada no less, never say that I am a snob.
-François
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