Word: chambertine
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WIEGAND Domaine Dujac Gevrey-Chambertin Aux Combottes Burgundy, 1999 IMMER Gosset Rose Champagne, nonvintage KOPEC Chateau Calon-Segur Bordeaux...
Somebody tell Bokassa he blew the Napoleonic bit when he imported Chateau Lafite and Chateau Mouton. The favorite wine of his hero was Chambertin, a Burgundy...
...hour. A minor engine problem held our speed below mach 1 for an extra 20 min., but it was corrected and we landed in Rio at 4:10 p.m. local time, 40 min. behind schedule. It didn't matter. We had sipped Gevrey Chambertin (1961) at twice the speed of sound...
...fast as they could fill their boat-shaped baskets with the honeycombs of tiny black Pinot grapes, the harvesters spilled them into mule-drawn carts. At Montrachet -whose wine, said Dumas, "ought to be drunk kneeling, with head bared"-around Beaune, at Meursault, Romanee-Conti, Vougeot and Gevrey-Chambertin-each hillside as famous in France as any of Napoleon's battlefields, it was the same. Off went the grapes, the best first, to be pressed in cellars at the foot of each small field. From the vats within these reeking temples of Bacchus rose the sibilance of juice astir...
...recipe, which we acquired by bribing his cook. No leg of venison can compare with a simple leg of mutton prepared in the following manner. Eight days in advance you will cover the leg of mutton with the marinade called Baume Samaritain, composed of wine-old Burgundy, Beaune or Chambertin-and virgin olive oil. Into this balm, to which you have already added the usual condiments of salt, pepper, bay leaf, thyme, beside an atom of ginger root, put a pinch of cayenne, a nutmeg cut into small pieces, a handful of crushed jumper berries, and lastly a dessertspoon...