weekend cigar

I've puffed a cigar this weekend, vegueros. I like the cigar like this.

weekend wines

I've tasted 2 bottles of wine this weekend. A & G Olivier, Bourgogne blanc. This wine was nice. It was so nice as the inexpensive wine like this. I'm completely satisfied. The other wine was Chateau la cabanne 1995. This pomerol was nice. I hardly drink Bordeaux. It smelt like mushroom(porcini) and berries. This wine was also inexpensive as Pomerol, I think.

weekend pasta

I ate Orecchiette this weekend. the sauce was made with ground pork, shiitake mushroom and azuki(small red beans). I also added garlic, some herbs and spices in it. this sauce went together with orecchiette pasta.

primeur in 2008

I've tasted 10 kinds of Beaujolais Nouveau this weekend. This year, all wines were lower alcohol and less sweetness. I've heard of that it's hard get enough sun and there were some grape coming not to fruition, which means less amount, but conversely, the grape would be condensed. It depends on what is the purpose on making wine. The winery could get nice grape if they sorted the grape carefully. But it's very hard job.

Anyway, We've enjoyed the wines. They went together with cheese, and canard ham. Personally, I liked Jean Claude Lapalu's and Philippe Pacalet's. Mr Lapalu's wine has the most sweetness in this tasting. I also liked the others, but It's enough wine for me tonight. I gave up thinking, and just felt and enjoyed the wines. cheers and drink up!!

an ashtray for cigar

I've made this ceramic ashtray . I made it in a lesson in September. and waited to be baked it. The size is nice for put a cigar. I'm stasfied.

baked apple

I've got tasteless apple today. I just wanted to eat small apple, that wasn't good. so that I put them in the oven. It's quite better than eating raw.



and there is wines and sake that I've sipped recently. Vercheny(the left pic) was made in Loire, Thierry PUZELAT. It was easy to drink, so that I drained this bottle one night. I hardly drink that much, because I'm a light dinker. It was that nice. La pente de chavigny(the middle of the pic) was also made in Loire, Mikael Bouges. This white wine was nice too. I've drain this bottle for three days. At the first night, fruity, mineral, and I've felt the character of Sauvignon blanc, and second night, I've felt like honey and citrus. the third day was also nice. It's very nice wine. The sake(the right pic) was hiyaoroshi which means brew it in Spring and bottled in Autumn for maturing.

grappa alla liquirizia

I've sipped a shot of grappa alla liquirizia in a Calabrian restaurant. Calabrian food is basically hot, but It was fun and enjoy the food. I've tasted three kind of hot paste made with pork, calamari, and shirasu(post larvae) at the first as annibble with spumante. and I choose a plate of appetizers, and castagna pasta with cream sauce. and I ate some cookies, and Granite.

baseball

I went to see the baseball with friends yesterday night since about 10 years. till 4,5 innings was fun. and the score was dead even, 2-2. and till 9 inning, the game wasn't fun, sort of boring. Might be the both pitcher were good. I thought it could went into extra innings. and I'm little bored. But The Yomiuri Giant's cleanup batter hit a home run to win the game in the bottom of the ninth. Phew! He did it. The fans were standing and so excited then. After that, we had a glass of wine and had a toast for good yesterday night.

ginnan

Ginnan is ginkgo nut. There are some ginkgo trees around here and some people gather them. but Those ginkgo fruit has strong stinky smelling. It's also said that it's good for cough and throat. Any ginkgo tree can make the nut. ginkgo is sort by female and male. the female ginkgo only can make the nut. There is a precaution not to eat much. I don't know the reason why, but It's said so. if you get some, you can eat them by this way below.

1)make crack like the middle picture.
2)put them into a small sack like envelope and fold.
3)put it into oven for 1 minute or so.

It's easy, isn't it? or you can roast them too.

pino noir around the world

We've had the wines in Oregon, Australia, and New Zealand tonight. Those wines aren't all in the world thought, We've enjoyed pino noir which has many characters.

Those two bottle were both nice. The left one taste berries, and the other smelt herbal as if I walk in the forest.



I prefer the right one, but Somehow I've got the same feeling of petrol which some Rieslings sometimes has. I don't know why. I thought I could smell this in only Rieslings.

Somehow, I don't like it so much.





Both wine was very nice. I've got a feeling of a pencil(iron?) in the left wine.




This wine wasn't pino noir. This was a Souvenir from someone. It was so nice balanced.

kaki

Kaki is one of popular fruits in Autumn. I don't know people know this fruit in the other countries, though I love this simple fruit. some people prefer much ripened and soften ones, but I prefer harder kaki.

weekend drinks

I had two bottle of wines and one bottle of grappa this weekend. The rose was nice balanced. I think this is one of my most 5 favorite rose. It's made by Yannick Amirault in Bourgueil, Loire. The red was a Barolo, Manzoni vigna Big 1995. I've got a feeling of berries, cherries, little menthol(might be strange expression though) and something. I like the aged wine like this. The grappa was flavored with juniper berry. Very nice scent too!

weekend dinner with friends.

I've invited my friend apartment on Saturday. and had dinner with the smoking foods we've made and lots of wines. Having dinner with friends is more fun. We talk, drink , eat. We had a real laugh. I took a photo of wine, Exactly, We opened about 10 bottle of wines at least, which means we drained over one bottle wine each.

petit jo

I've open this wine yesterday dinner, la roche buissiere, petit jo. It tasted juicy and after minutes, It smelt like nut liqueur or Amaretto. It's easy to drink. The consultant is Yann Rohel who is also a vignoron around Rhone and beaujolais. I drunk it with saute of chicken.