The main dish was again, on general demand, the pork cheeks stew with Rodenbach I made two weeks ago!
The wine this Sunday was a bit of a curiosity, that takes me back to one of the weirdest conversations I have ever had. One evening a few years ago, I got a strange phone call from somebody who was clearly drunk and who I could not very well understand because the line was awfully bad. Through the crackles I could however discern this one phrase, an enigmatic question that was asked without any introduction: 'what is bee's knees in Latin?' I had no idea who this man was and what he was talking about... I just thought: 'you're going to have a serious headache tomorrow'. It turned out this person was my father, calling from Gigondas -hence the bad line- and 'Bee's knees' was a new wine in the making... These days, a bottle of Bee's Knees is hard to find, but fortunately we have our contacts- networking is everything these days! So there it was!: a powerful and yet fruity, unmistakably high quality Gigondas. If it is true every wine bears the mark of its maker, then there is certainly a viticulteur de caractère behind this one!
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