Drew 
Sammamish, WA
Wine Bottler
Posts: 3357
 | | 10-08-2008 07:19 PM |
| Is there anyone else up here? Drinking alone sucks  | | |
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kpak
Alaska
Wine Bottler
Posts: 3134
| | 10-09-2008 12:40 AM |
| I'll be there in November. The weekend before Thanksgiving is Fish Expo. Let's do lunch or something... | | | In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is...
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jaimetown
DC area
Wine Labeler
Posts: 3553
| | 10-09-2008 10:49 AM |
| My family lives in Seattle so I make it out there from time to time... I'll let you know Drew! :) | | | |
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Drew
Sammamish, WA
Wine Bottler
Posts: 3357
| | 10-09-2008 11:56 AM |
| Awesome! | | | |
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kpak
Alaska
Wine Bottler
Posts: 3134
| | 10-10-2008 12:08 AM |
| Nov 20 - 21 - 22
any of those work
I'll be at either the Olympic or the Sorrento
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Pete
Left Coast
Wine Thief
Posts: 2990
| | 10-10-2008 02:21 AM |
| We spend three or four months in Kirkland every year. | | | I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it. | |
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wineismylife
Arlington, TX
Master of Wine
Posts: 12535
| | 10-10-2008 11:07 AM |
| Drew, you can't get any of the locals like mattach to come out and play? | | | Joe-----Wine is like potato chips around me...if it's open, it's gone. | |
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kpak
Alaska
Wine Bottler
Posts: 3134
| | 10-20-2008 08:49 PM |
| Any preference on date/time/location?
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Drew
Sammamish, WA
Wine Bottler
Posts: 3357
| | 10-23-2008 05:39 PM |
| Isn't Mattach over on WinoDepot? I don't post over there all that often. Suppose I can find the 3000 email thread from your visit and invite random people ;-D
Kpak - 21st would work the best. Preference depends on whether or not you have wheels. I've wanted to try Cafe Juanita for a while now, but I've also wanted to get downtown and hit Lark again. Txori Bar is also great and corkage is ~$20. | | | |
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kpak
Alaska
Wine Bottler
Posts: 3134
| | 10-25-2008 02:35 PM |
| 21st sounds good and I haven't tried any of the three. I didn't really plan on a car - in Seattle, I usually walk almost everywhere. But I can find my way around the area pretty well... | | | In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is...
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Drew
Sammamish, WA
Wine Bottler
Posts: 3357
| | 10-26-2008 08:22 PM |
| Alright. It's officially a pinot-fest. We've got a couple of bottles of Rochioli queued (one 2000 and a 2005)) and I'm guessing we'll probably have a bottle of port, as well...
Will probably end up being eastside. Trying to figure out where we can get the best deal on corkage, but still have great food. I'll committ to ferrying up to 3 passengers in the car from Seattle to the end destination if you guys will taxi it back. | | | |
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kpak
Alaska
Wine Bottler
Posts: 3134
| | 10-26-2008 08:45 PM |
| In with a 2002 Rochioli Little Hill Block Pinot Noir
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Drew
Sammamish, WA
Wine Bottler
Posts: 3357
| | 10-27-2008 01:22 PM |
| Kpak (02 Rochioli Little Hill) Drew (05 Rochioli Little Hill, white or an 06 LH for the hill of it) Roy (00 Rochioli TBD) Anthony Lombardi x 2 (friends of Mattach) Mneeley - maybe Mattach - maybe | | | |
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Drew
Sammamish, WA
Wine Bottler
Posts: 3357
| | 10-29-2008 01:40 PM |
| Ugh can't edit. Checking out Bin Vivant through a friend. Looks like a nice little place, will crash for lunch over there in the next week or two and see what I think. | | | |
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Seamus Campbell
Portland, Oregon
Grape Fermenter
Posts: 428
| | 11-24-2008 06:01 PM |
| This go off? Interested to hear about it. | | | |
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kpak
Alaska
Wine Bottler
Posts: 3134
| | 11-25-2008 11:53 PM |
| Small but fun meet at Bin Vivant in Kirkland
NV Pierre Peters Blanc de Blanc Grand Cru Cuvée Reserve Mesnil-Sur-Oger Champagne - my WOTN perhaps because it was such a pleasant surprise and intro to this champagne (buy it if you see it)
2006 Rochioli Sweetwater Chardonnay - very well balanced, not too oaky not to much MLF, pleasantly bright and worked well with scallops
2000 Rochioli Estate Pinot Noir - really good stuff; very bright and juicy
2002 Rochioli Little Hill Pinot Noir - I thought it was very rusty and barely starting to show anything after more than an hour. I have one more bottle than I'm going to drink ASAP.
2005 Rochioli Little Hill Pinot Noir - start to finish, an excellent winel. I wouldn't hesitate to drink these now...if I had any...
2006 Dusky Goose Pinot Noir Dundee Hills - Had alot of good qualities but I never really got a handle on this one and would like to try it again after several months time.
and a very delicious, dessert by itself, 15 year old madeira.
Drew has notes posted also under What Are You Drinking.
What we ate:
carmelized scallops
sweet potato gnocchi with brie, chestnuts and truffle oil
braised pork belly with dungenss crab cake and apples
hawaiian sunfish with whole grain (farro?)
duck leg confit with delicious parsnips
several desserts - including an interesting moscato sorbet
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Drew
Sammamish, WA
Wine Bottler
Posts: 3357
| | 11-28-2008 01:22 PM |
| I forgot about this thread...
Was a fun time in a great little restaurant that is stuck in a hotel in Kirkland. Forgot to ask Roy which Madeira it was, just remember something about a hand-operated elevator 1000 feet above the vineyards :-D | | | |
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kpak
Alaska
Wine Bottler
Posts: 3134
| | 11-28-2008 06:37 PM |
| Someday I want to do one of his tours through Portugal/Spain...perhaps including the 'coffin-like' elevator!
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