Barely Day 21 - so this is a freebie Current mood: jubilant Category: Friends
Remember earlier when I mentioned that I have a friend of many years who did a podcast on Friends good enough to drink? I was planning to rename it "Friends good enough to drink with"? Well the time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things..... ( Go ahead tell me what THAT quote is! )
I happen to be the owner of a bottle of wine that is ridiculously expensive, and yes it is french, it is imported, and its really tough to find. However, it holds family distinction with us because it is the first red wine I have ever had that I actually liked ( at age 23). I tasted it for the first time at a dinner with my parents, and my Godfather and his wife ( why do I feel like I am in a bad mafia film? Yes the GERMAN / FRENCH Mafia - we are rude and disgustsed by our own behaviour) at a restaurant called La Grenouille. You Frenchies will translate that accurately and no, I did not have any. Don't eat that kind of thing.
What I did have was so memorable that 14 years later I can still tell you about it. I ordered a glass of Chardonnay ( my last incidentally) and my entree was a fully shelled lobster in a butter sauce that was amazing. Dessert I do not remember but they dusted off two bottles of this Chateau Montrachet ( at 150 a pop) and that was the end of white wine for me.
So fast forward to today. I possess a bottle of this from the late 80's I believe. I have not had an occasion with which I deem important enough to drink it. Now I have one.
My best friend is planning to come down here sometime soon. Its the perfect opportunity.
My roomie - this one's for you! Loev !
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