I'm no Professor Bainbridge when it comes to wine, but I enjoy buying and drinking the stuff, especially from the wonderful Moore Brothers. I was introduced to Moore Brothers when I was living in Delaware (one of them was sommelier at Philadelphia's well known Le Bec Fin) and was delighted when they opened their New York location. It is a pleasure to drink wine chosen by people who know what it is supposed to taste like. I have never had a bad bottle from them.
In any case, yesterday we had a terrific rose from Italy, Proprieta Sperino, Rosa del Rosa. The wine has a immensely powerful aroma, which my girlfriend thought was apple and I couldn't identify. Flopping around the internet, I found a tasting note by someone else that gave me a clue as to what I was smelling - which is to say, extremely pungent raspberries. In any case, I agree with the commentator at The Tasting Note. "This is a ****ing good rose."
(Dinner, incidentally, was chicken breast taken off the bone and sauteed skin side down on my gas griddle for fantastically crispy skin [fried chicken without the guilt, I said] with a simple red potato salad [boiled potatoes, spring onions, dijon vinaigrette but made by replacing half the red wine vinegar with lemon]).
4/27/2008
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Is the gas griddle the space in the middle between the burners? We got a new gas stove recently, but I've thus far been wary of its unfamiliar features and have stuck to using just the oven and burners.
Mine has a large burner in the middle that can be replaced with a heavy griddle. The burner is there for, say, deglazing a roasting tin, which needs fairly wide heat. The griddle is for pancakes! (or chicken, etc).
That's it -- we have a center oval burner and there's a non-stick griddle you can put on it. I will have to experiment with it.
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