{"id":515,"date":"2012-05-16T00:27:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T00:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2012-05-16T00:27:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T00:27:26","slug":"wednesday-tasting-and-live-jazz-on-thursday-at-chateau-la-vin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/2012\/wednesday-tasting-and-live-jazz-on-thursday-at-chateau-la-vin\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Tasting and Live Jazz on Thursday at Chateau La Vin!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Chateau<\/a>It’s looking like it is going to be another great week!\u00a0 Here is some early notice on tomorrows tasting plus Ron and Keith are coming back Thursday night for some live jazz!\u00a0 Wednesday we will be tasting two French wines!<\/p>\n

Chateau Massieu Boutet 2005 Bordeaux ($9.99) – <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0From the historic 2005 vintage!\u00a0 This vintage was so good that Wine Spectator gave the entire vintage 99pts.\u00a0 I have not had a bad 2005 Bordeaux and even this ten dollar bottle represents the high quality of the vintage.\u00a0 Nice ruby color, fine notes of ripe fruits.\u00a0 Spicy and unctuous tannins.\u00a0 Best served with grilled steak, poultry and medium ripen cheeses.\u00a0 50% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Petite Verdot, 10% Malbec.<\/p>\n

Picpoul De Pinet\u00a0 Coteaux Du Languedoc ($14.99) – <\/strong>100% Picpoul, aka Folle Blanche. Pale yellow color with green tints. Fresh and fine aromas\u00a0 of grapefruit and exotic fruit. Lime flavors, with typical focusing acidity, are hallmarks of Picpoul. Our best value, this wine impresses novices and hardened geeks equally. Known as \u201cthe Muscadet of the South\u201d in France, this is to the Mediterranean coast of France what Albari\u00f1o is to northwest Spain.\u00a0 The Picpoul de Pinet HB 2010, Coteaux de Languedoc, produced by the Caves de Pom\u00e9rols cooperative, reiterates this wine\u2019s status as one of the Great Cheap Wines of the World. Made from white picpoul grapes \u2014 also known as folle blanche \u2014 and seeing only stainless steel in its production, the wine is exuberantly fresh and spicy, exhilarating in its crisp acidity, seductive in its roasted lemon scents and flavors spiked with lime peel and grapefruit and permeated by hints of dried thyme and tarragon and an exotic note of salt-marsh. The soil in this seaside area of Languedoc, just west of the great lagoon of the Bassin de Thau, where the French coast starts its long curve downward toward Spain, is composed of clay and pebbles and fragments of limestone and fossil shells over marl, a perfect mixture for the grape\u2019s dry delicacy, lightness and stony, sun-drenched nature. \u00a0Superb with shellfish \u2014 especially oysters \u2014 but we happily consumed a few glasses with Chinese take-out. 12.5 percent alcohol. Very Good+.”<\/p>\n

Live Jazz Thursday Night!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ron and Keith are bringing their guitars back Thursday night to play some more great Jazz!\u00a0 They will start around 7:30.\u00a0 It will be another great night of wine and Jazz at Chateau La Vin!<\/p>\n

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It’s looking like it is going to be another great week!\u00a0 Here is some early notice on tomorrows tasting plus Ron and Keith are coming back Thursday night for some live jazz!\u00a0 Wednesday we will be tasting two French wines! Chateau Massieu Boutet 2005 Bordeaux…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}