Dinner with friends

[Florida Jim]

With tomato and mozzarella salad:

2002 Dom. de la Petite Cassagne, Rose::

Clean, dry and unexciting. Tolerable for me, better for Diane. Imported by Robert Kacher.

2003 Abbazia di Novacella, P{inot Gris:

Clean, correct, reasonably open and fleshy with little to distinguish it and little to complain about. Imported by Vias Imports.

With grilled wild salmon with roasted Vidalia onions and mushrooms with fresh arugala:

2000 Drouhin, Chambolle-Musigny, Les Amoureuses:

Beginning to close down but still full of black fruit and solidly Chambolle. Imported by Drayfus Ashby.

1999 Chevillon, Les Saint-Georges:

Young, coiled and showing better than the Amoureuses; powerful scents of black fruit, spice, stones and light hints of red fruit; deep but still pure and solid Nuits fruit with light complexity and good persistence. A decade before its ready but clearly the WOTN. Imported by Robert Kacher.

Best, Jim