Last night I had the pleasure of hosting a small intimate wine dinner for wine maker Andy Peay. This what we call a "full comp" check. I invited him and a few wine industry people into our restaurant for dinner on us. The chef and I prepared a menu special just for him and his guests.
Andy was nice enough to bring in a ton of great wines including two different vintages of a few of his wines. He brought Estate Chardonnay '04 and 06', Scallop Shelf Pinot Noir, Pomarium Pinot Noir, and two different single vineyard sites of syrah. But the real treat was a wine he doesn't even release to his distributor but rather sells directly through his winery. It's a wine blended of Marsanne and Rousanne. A blended Rhone style white that likes being drunk closer to ambient temperature, this wine shows beautiful waxiness and tropical fruit notes. Given the fact that he makes this wine from a total of one sixth of an acre, I get why he might gaurd this wine well.
Overall the dinner was great but Mr. Peay still showed himself to be human when he corrected me on the pronunciation of his single vineyard Syrah "Les Titans" in way that really turned me off to his whole experience. Though some day I would love to learn the french language, his french pronunciation (lay- tee-tawn) of this single vineyard site really reminded me why sometimes I fucking hate these people so much. YOUR VINEYARD IS IN CALIFORNIA! Andy on one hand is the coolest, most laid back wonderfully talanted wine maker. On the other hand he might be the same guy that would comb my website for spelling and gramatical errors. Come on man make that last step! See the big picture! And get over the pretense!
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Yeah those types are totally annoying. Just look at the Crate and Barrell or Pottery Barn catalogs to see how obnoxious the wine trend has become... pages of overpriced wine "accessories" for the pretentious yuppies who forget what it is really about. Which is, getting drunk. Just kidding.
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