Lancelot

Very interesting to see a BC wine in the line up. Hope it showed well. I'll be visiting them tomorrow.

My wife inherited a set from her parents. There is a straight sided oval one that that I particularly love. Not very heavy but great for long slow oven cooking.

Very cool. Where did you manage to find those beauties ?

RIP

Is it this one ? http://www.chocolat-chocolat.com/home/chocolate-molds/c378157547/p17612284.html

Just picked up Fresh Yeast at Capers on 4th. $3.99 a pound. Thanks

Making Stollen.Looking for Fresh Yeast on the Drive or close. Asked some of bakeries like Fratelli and they said they don't use it. Any thoughts?

I work for Marquis Wine Cellars at 1034 Davie Street. We have the corkscrew in one style right now. The bone colored ones are in stock, with a nice leather type pouch for $220.00 each (I think) . Will double check the price and quantity when I go to work tomorrow. Cheers David

Qzina will sell to non wholesale customers. This is a non retail location. Nothing pretty to look at. We have bought stuff from them in the past. The fruit line is on-line . We bought some of the fruit products as well as cocao butter and they are special ordering PCB transfers. Call and order ahead of time and bring your Visa.. They will accept cash too. Edited for spelling

Success Turkey place at Granville Island did not have any whole fresh birds. Armando did...fresh not frozen Grade A J.D Farms turkey $4.99 a pound. I feel violated about the price but I got what I wanted so I shouldn't bitch.

I/we want to have a turkey today. Non butter basted around 16-17 pounds. Any ideas? Everything we have seen is butter basted . Many stores have no turkey at all. We live in Vancouver but are willing to drive. Have checked Superstore,Costco,Capers and Super Value. Didn't check Whole Paycheck. Thanks.

Work till 8.30 pm... Somebody has to make sure you can all buy bubbly for New Years. 5 pound standing rib roast with curry squash( from Trout Lake Farmers Market) and a bottle or two of Red 1997 Nottola Vino Nobile di Montepulciano and maybe a 1997 Isole e Olena Cepparello or 2000 Tua Rita Perlato del Bosco. I'll be asleep before midnite.... until our crazy neighbors start banging pots and pans off their front porches.

A friend of mine... recent US import is looking for a ham for the Holidays. He has had a number of good American Hams, honey/hickory smoked types and is looking for a source in Vancouver. Not being a ham afficionado I couldn't help. Any ideas?

Glad to see the feedback on the wines. When I saw the list I knew some research had been done but it was going to be expensive. All it takes is some lateral thinking and a little planning. It's easy to help when the customer has a clear idea of what they are looking for and a defined budget. David @ Marquis

Great post. I was there as well and it was very impressive. There were a couple of discordant notes . I thought the eau de vie overwhelmed the the mirabelle plum sorbet, and the Dirty Laundry Gewurztraminer seemed a bit petroly with the dessert. Wine wise I really enjoyed trying a RED Chassagne Montrachet and the Paul Blanck 01 Rosenberg. The Cote de Layon was very nice.We are very lucky to have as many good chefs in this town as we do.

I'll be there for Thursday events Trade Tasting at the Telus Conference Center 1.30-4.00 Washington Wine Commission Open House 4.00-5.30 Serious Tasting For the Serious Set 5.30-8.00 and Battle of the Sexes on Friday. I'm bringing the white flag as I fully expect the women to kick our butts.

Ling The WSET Courses would be my choice as well. For basic info you might want to start with The Windows on The World Wine Course. It is a hardcover book by Kevin Zraly. Very informative.Each section is well thought out informative and not Wine for Dummies. Just trying a lot of wines and taking note of favorites can be very helpfull.Our more formal tastings are not as focussed on instruction as they are stand up tastings. There really isn't a substitute for sitting down and writing good notes though. At Marquis Wine Cellars we open two bottles of new/interesting wines to taste every Friday. Anyone is welcome to come by and try them. I am always happy to answer any questions about wine and if I don't know I'll find out. David Lancelot PS We could always trade baking tips for wine tips..

You might try abebooks.com .When I found out about this website,( I collect wine books) it was the taste of cold steel in my mouth.

I feel compelled to chime in with my Wine book list. The Wild Bunch (Great Wines from Small Producers) Patrick Matthews 1997 Virgile's Vineyard (A Year in the Languedoc Wine Country)Patrick Moon 2003 A Wine and Food Guide to the Loire Jacqueline Friedrich 1996 Love by The Glass(Tasting Notes from a Marriage)Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher 2002 Wine & War (The French,The Nazis & The Battle for France's Greatest Treasure) Don & Petie Kladstrup 2001 Languedoc Rouissillon(The Wines and Winemakers) Paul Strang 2002 The New France (A Complete Guide to Contemporary French Wine)Andrew Jefford 2002 Adventures on The Wine Route(A Wine Buyers Tour of France) Kermit Lynch 1988 The Wine Regions of Australia John Beeston 2000 Very serious with historical context American Vintage (The Rise of American Wine) Paul Lukacs 2000 A Short History of Wine Rod Phillips 2000 Wine and The Vine(An Historical Geography of Viticulture and the Wine Trade)Tim Unwin 1991 Scholarly Red Wine with Fish(The New Art of Matching Wine With Food)David Rosengarten and Joshua Wesson 1989 The Taste of Wine(The Art and Science of Wine Appreciation)Emile Peynaud English Translation1987 A Century of Wine( The Story of a Wine Revolution) General Editor Stephen Brook 2000 Vines Grapes and Wines Jancis Robinson 1986 Vintage The Story of Wine Hugh Johnson 1989 The World Atlas of Wine (5th Edition) Hugh Johnson & Jancis Robinson 2001 There is rarely a week that passes that I don't open one or two of these books. If pressed to pick only two I would pick the World Atlas and the New France Book (the most informed opinionated and compelling wine book I have read) Red Wine with Fish is interesting but difficult to find($150.00 at Barbara Jo's Books to Cooks). I'm willing to lend it to someone if they want to read it. Just be nice!

There are 6 wines (out of 58,369) on the Wine Advocate Website that score 50 points. The eyes of the winemakers are blocked out so you can't tell who they are. 77 Rausan-Segla 75 Angelus 73 Lagrange 78 Margaux 65 Rothschild 69 Remoissenet Pere et Fils Le Montrachet In fairness the tasting notes mostly refer to wines that are over the hill, not poor or corked. As a reader I'm more interested in the wines he likes than the wines he doesn't.If he pans a wine I probably won't try it. If the Spectator disses a wine I still might try it depending on who writes the tasting note. Lancelot Disclaimer... I am a self admitted card carrying member of the Parker Slut Hall of fame.

If you have an on-line subscription and search by issue you can see a list of rated wines with tasting notes that were not published in that issue. I presume this comes up because of editing reasons or because the scores are too low. I have seen wines listed in this section in the hi 80's that didn't make the cut. I don't remember a lower score than 58 but I do recall a review once for a wine in which he stated that he would probably give a higher score to Kool-Aid!!! I wonder if grape Kool-Aid would score higher than other flavors?

As a long time lover of Zinfandel I have come to a few conclusions. Most but not all are best enjoyed not more than 5-7 years from the vintage. Much of the the varietal character I like in Zin is gone after the 5-6 year mark. Exceptions to the rule are Storybook Mountain, some mid 80's Grgich zins and Ridge Lytton/Geyserville,1995 Turley Aida.( there will be a few others that I forgot and will remember at 2am but it's still a short list) I shared a 91 Lytton Spring earlier this year with friends and it was magnificent. I agree with Vaughan about the Biale wines, I sold them to Vaughan and they went over the cliff faster than Thelma and Louise. The 93 Aldo's tasted like $3.00 Pinot Noir about 12 months after it's release. I've seen milk last longer. If you like the opulent fruit drink em. I always say "I would rather drink a wine 2 years too early rather than 1 day too late".

I might not have it quite right... but I think they wanted to shift the focus to wholesale. I'm in wine not food/restaurant business so I'm not sure if they have continued in that direction

FYI... Artic Meats on Commercial closed last year.

FYI... Artic Meats on Commercial closed last year.