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    <message>Pardon me for contributing in English, my Spanish composition is too miserable and I don't want to injure the innocent.  Also, Manuel, we miss you at therapy where I could have at you in English.

I had some of the 2005 Gorrondona on Tuesday at the very fine restaurant Avec in Chicago.  What a delight it was, and it went very well with my chicken legs.  Too bad there isn't more of that wine, or of others like it.

I strongly suspect that Hondarrabi Beltza will prove to be Cabernet Franc, but of course I've been wrong before.</message>
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    <created-at type="datetime">2007-09-22T00:52:15+02:00</created-at>
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    <message>Joe, you know you can contribute in any language you choose. It's great to see you here.

The Gorrondona is a brilliant, pure, truly interesting wine of which I feel like drinking a lot, something which is quite rare in Spain these days. I'd love to talk to its makers about the variety and how they came to realize that it, their soil and climate were the important things, not French wood, or points, or whatever.

You think Hondarrabi Beltza could turn out to be Cabernet Franc in Basque drag? I don't know... 

And Therapy. For some strange reason, I've felt compelled to fill this blog with stuff and have neglected Therapy except for occasional tiny comments. I was thinking I should do a "Best of What I've Been Doing Over Here" in my own translation, just ot keep myself somewhat relevant in that forum which, after all, is like life itself.

How do you like my endorsement of the fine work of Professor Gilman?

M.</message>
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    <created-at type="datetime">2007-09-22T10:55:12+02:00</created-at>
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    <message>Hi Joe, great to read you in "La Otra Botella"!

I have not drunk too much wines made with Hondarrabi (or Hondarribi?) Beltza...but wines I drank with Idiazabal cheese were marvelous. :-)

Is it possible to buy it in NYC?  


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    <created-at type="datetime">2007-09-22T12:17:53+02:00</created-at>
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    <message>Claro que aparece Idiaz&#225;bal en NY, I&#241;aki... En esta ciudad te venden de todo. Habr&#225; que probar el maridaje de este txakol&#237; tinto con el queso, a ver. 

M.</message>
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    <created-at type="datetime">2007-09-22T17:31:41+02:00</created-at>
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    <message>&#161;Saludos, I&#241;aki!

Manuel, Prof. Gilman's work will provide a novel and enlightening experience even for the most jaded.</message>
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    <created-at type="datetime">2007-09-23T19:09:52+02:00</created-at>
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    <message>Forgive me, I&#241;aki, yes it is possible to find this wine in New York--Chambers St. Wines, and perhaps others, stock the Gorrondona.  I've also heard that the folks who make Ameztoi have a red.  I'm eager to try it, but haven't seen it.</message>
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    <created-at type="datetime">2007-09-24T13:53:57+02:00</created-at>
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    <message>Wow

That's incredible. It's easier to find a red txaloki in NYC than in Madrid. In Madrid is very hard to find 2 o 3 white txakoli, impossible if we talk about red txakoli. I don't know if this situation is funny or sad...

Paso a mi lengua materna: Manuel, ayer me beb&#237; una botella de un Chinon tinto. Les pens&#233;es de Pallus 2004, de Domaine de Pallus. Me pareci&#243; bastante interesante, 100% Cab. Franc. &#191;Sabes algo de este vino?

Have a nice wines!!


P.S. Sorry for my poor english</message>
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    <created-at type="datetime">2007-09-24T14:37:45+02:00</created-at>
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    <message>Pues f&#237;jate que s&#237;, aqu&#237; en Nueva York aparece de todo. A veces m&#225;s que en origen. Es lo que hace maravilloso vivir en esta ciudad. Siempre hay alguien que encuentra una maravilla oculta de este mundo y la trae, para despertarnos los sentidos y hacernos maravillarnos. Como dije, este Gorrondona es un vino interesant&#237;simo y la bodega es una que visitar&#233; en el futuro, si me reciben.

En cuanto al Domaine de Pallus, no he podido probar ninguno de los vinos a&#250;n, aunque s&#233; que lo trae un importador de quien apruebo. El que hace ese vino desde el 2003 es Bertrand Sourdais, que lanz&#243; a la prominencia el Dominio de Atauta, uno de los pocos vinos de Ribera del Duero que para m&#237; valen la pena. Ahora me despiertas la curiosidad de buscarlo... &#191;C&#243;mo andaba de madera?

M.</message>
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    <created-at type="datetime">2007-09-24T15:58:54+02:00</created-at>
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    <message>Te comentaba Manuel lo del Chinon porque te he leido frecuentemente hablando de los chinons...

De madera? Pues yo jurar&#237;a que no ten&#237;a o no ten&#237;a demasiada. O al menos yo no se la not&#233; y si estaba no alteraba para mi gusto el conjunto.

En cuanto al Atatua... lo he probado tres veces, demasiado joven. Las dos primeras me parec&#237;a que ten&#237;a exceso de madera, era todo chocolate. La tercera vez incluso estuve hablando con &#191;el en&#243;logo? y me dijo que estaban reduciendo el aporte de madera al vino. Me gust&#243; m&#225;s la tercera vez, con la madera m&#225;s integrada. Me gustar&#237;a probar ahora una de las primeras a&#241;adas a ver que tal anda ...

Un saludo.</message>
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