Happy Thanksgiving!
I have little to say, but just wanted to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving.

I'll be drinking American wines tonight, even though the Puritans were anti-alcohol extremists who were tossed out of Britain for their austere, unpleasant and objectionable views and lifestyles. Why people imagine that they have to drink American wine to celebrate Thanksgiving is always a mystery to me. I suspect that cranberry sauce would be suspect to a puritan sensibility, let alone wine.

Nevertheless, I have decided to have an American theme tonight and I am only drinking wines made by Helen Turley. I've collected quite a few over the years and Thanksgiving dinner is a good way to get rid of a bunch of them.

So, Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!
- Joe Dressner 11-24-2005 2:20 pm
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I feel your pain.
- Scott Kraft (guest) 11-24-2005 2:29 pm


i wouldnt wash lice out of my hair with Turley's wines. Even though it's a sure-fire cure for head lice and pubic crabs. Why are you drinking that crap?
- rudy pritchard (guest) 11-24-2005 2:57 pm


Dear Mr. Pritchard:

Honestly, don't you think you're being a bit too strong!

Turley wines are not everyone's cup of tea, but why be so vulgar about it?
- Joe Dressner 11-24-2005 3:40 pm


Joe,

Hope you have a happy day despite the domestics. We're going out for dinner, and I plan on ordering something French. Just to be contrary. Unless that is, domestic wine is free with the meal.

It's snowing in Buffalo! Who'd have thunk it!
- Mark Criden (guest) 11-24-2005 3:42 pm


We're you dining?

I used to get a great Châteaubriand at a restaurant on Delaware Avenue.

I forget its name.
- Joe Dressner 11-24-2005 3:54 pm


here i am communicating from the country. we will be drinking an assortment of wines from many viticultural regions. i find that lots of wine is good for my hump.
- the camel (guest) 11-24-2005 4:47 pm


Personally, I will probably be drinking a German spatlese tonight. Would that be considered subversive?
- Josefa (guest) 11-24-2005 5:31 pm


Are you running tonight?
- Joe Dressner 11-24-2005 8:06 pm


which vintage Spatlese?
- anonymous (guest) 11-25-2005 4:10 am


2002 Vintage Kiedrech Grafenberg by Robert Weil

And no, I didn't run yesterday. It was 18 degees outside with 45mph winds. I took a pass.



- Josefa (guest) 11-25-2005 12:44 pm


i love josefa.
- the circus strongman (guest) 11-25-2005 3:45 pm


Olivers, which is on Delaware and probably where you got the steak years ago (unless it was David's Table?)
- Mark Criden (guest) 11-25-2005 8:21 pm


That's it!

David's Table!

Does it still exist?
- Joe Dressner 11-25-2005 9:25 pm


Nope. Went through several incarnations, now a trendy new place called Amaryllis: http://www.buffalorising.com/yum/archives/2005/09/combining_the_p.php
- Mark Criden (guest) 11-25-2005 10:08 pm


I had Chambolle-Musigny with Mushroom Risotto for Thanskgiving. Who cares what a bunch of roundheads would have eaten?
- b-wood (guest) 11-28-2005 11:54 am


Btw, the Puritans weren't anti-alcohol. They loved beer and hard cider.
- B-wood (guest) 11-28-2005 11:57 am


Is that true? My apologies to the Puritan community.
- Joe Dressner 11-28-2005 12:08 pm


i mixed some lime and some coconut and drank it all up.
- beanbag (guest) 11-28-2005 3:08 pm


Apology accepted (burp).
- Cotton Mather (guest) 11-28-2005 7:45 pm


lots of beajolais - cote de brouilly - here in the midwest, and vin de bugey for the kids, and those who wish to be.
- wineart (guest) 11-29-2005 7:56 pm


2001 Mayr-Nusser Lagrein Riserva, 2004 Domaine Girard Sancerre and Thiriez Amber.
- putnam (guest) 12-08-2005 3:20 pm




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