we take a car service to Queens on some road I remember being on only once before, we mill around Kew Gardens circling 83rd Ave looking for #120-35, we have mapquest so we tell the driver to drop us in front of this big beautiful house....one block away we find the sign Uzbekistan Cultural Center / Uzbekistan Tandoori Bread House / Kosher Restaurant, in my bag I have a 1968 Rioja and a 1930 Dulce Monastrell, and my pals are well equiped also...we enter to many onlooking eyes, sit down and dig in, the first round of food was fantastic (lamb noodle soup, lamb dumpling soup, salad of carrot/slaw/pickles, big lamb dumpling, rice pilaf w. boiled lamb, fried potato, glorious bread), room had murals and great paintings (one of which by the end of the nite I was asking the owners to buy, and we are still talking), soon the music began and people were dancing....the mains (griled meats shish kebob(sp?) were less good for only two correctable reasons, too much salt and overcooked...great nite!!
what's a 1930 dulce monastrell and how was it?
Monastrell is a Spanish grape that later was found in France as Mouvedre in Bandol, Chateauneuf de Pape etc, Dulce is the late harvest offering of the estate slighty fortified like a port but in the case of the 1930 it taking on a Madiera/Sherry/Port combo feeling....the estate (Oliveras) has vines planted in 1872 and these contribute much to the wine, the current offering is 1998 and it can be found all over NYC (Chelsea Wine Vault has it $25ish) and its great...in 1994 the estate released 500 bottles of 1930, last month 60 of these made it to NYC, I was put in charge of 12, 6 were sent to Crossroads (the other 6 were missing:>) where it may still be at apox $60 (a bargin IMHO and a rare treat that may never pop up again as the family diidnt save many old vintages cause back than there was no demand, they may be saving some now for release down the line)
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- Skinny 10-02-2002 6:41 am
what's a 1930 dulce monastrell and how was it?
- big jimmy 10-02-2002 7:33 am [add a comment]
Monastrell is a Spanish grape that later was found in France as Mouvedre in Bandol, Chateauneuf de Pape etc, Dulce is the late harvest offering of the estate slighty fortified like a port but in the case of the 1930 it taking on a Madiera/Sherry/Port combo feeling....the estate (Oliveras) has vines planted in 1872 and these contribute much to the wine, the current offering is 1998 and it can be found all over NYC (Chelsea Wine Vault has it $25ish) and its great...in 1994 the estate released 500 bottles of 1930, last month 60 of these made it to NYC, I was put in charge of 12, 6 were sent to Crossroads (the other 6 were missing:>) where it may still be at apox $60 (a bargin IMHO and a rare treat that may never pop up again as the family diidnt save many old vintages cause back than there was no demand, they may be saving some now for release down the line)
- Skinny 10-02-2002 3:39 pm [add a comment]