Comments on: Pressler’s Boring Boyfriend In Boring Flap Over Boring Book Being Made Into Boring Movie

By: fuckermost

fuckermost — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:53:09 +0000

whimsy, sir – i’m from delaware. good ol’ moore brothers! it was a lovely day in wilmington with a fancy cup of coffee from the brew haha adjacent (artisans, these brew haha people) and a walk around the 56 degrees of wine afterward. but i could never keep up with them. i always find myself asking “do you have something that tastes like…” as opposed to “hey dude, where’s the…” or whatever. in any case, i’d recommend a trip there sometime because, though it resides in a strip-mall-lite atmosphere, a mere three blocks up you will find the gibraltor mansion, where marian coffin broke ground for both landscapers and women by carving out this masterpiece of a formal garden. always vacated. always amazing. i’ve even broken into the mansion itself, which still remains dilapidated and abandoned. i found a copy of “yachting” magazine from 1972! anyway, if you need to get away with a book, or whatever, it doesn’t get much better than this:

http://www.preservationde.org/gibraltar/estate/index.htm

http://tclf.org/landslide/2006/gibraltor/site_profile.pdf

it’s open to the public. you won’t even see a gardener, but somehow it’s always immaculate.

thanks for the wine recommendations. i will look them up.

oh, and ps: if you do go, get out of delaware before sunset or you will witness a yuppie mardigras night life rivaled only by old city on a friday night.

By: lord_whimsy

lord_whimsy — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:03:53 +0000

Gary Vaynerchuk's a hyper loudmouth, but he knows his stuff. Here he is on Riojas.

By: lord_whimsy

lord_whimsy — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:40:05 +0000

Oh–one more thing, babies: Watch yourselves when coming back from Moore Bros. back into PA. I have it on good information the Pennsylvania cops look for PA plates coming over from the Moore Bros parking lot, so go when you have other business in NJ, or go with someone with NJ plates.

By: lord_whimsy

lord_whimsy — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:31:40 +0000

Oh, I’m a Rioja lover, too, Fmost. I’ve been drinking that Maques de Caceres Rioja 2003 Reserva all winter. You’re right–it’s really great stuff, peppery and full (I’ve been told Rioja reservas are usually best between 5-7 years of age, so apparently this 2003 is just hitting its stride). The 2005 is okay, but not as satisfying–might wanna hold on them for a bit, perhaps. 2005 seems like it was a good year, but a real oenophile would be a better judge than I.

You might want to try (and I hope I’m recalling the right wine here) the Portuguese 2005 Vale do Bonfim Douro Reserva. They serve it at Southwark. Has the same grapes used in port and you get a whiff of that, but boy it’s dense, beautiful stuff–nice and dry, but big. I like it, anyway. Makes Pinots look thin. You can spread it on toast, this wine. I think it weighs in well under $20.

Here are some other inexpensive wines to check out:

Le Jaja de Jau Syrah-Grenache 2005 (under $10): Simple, good, nothing to ponder. Cool bottle, too.

Bodega Septima 2006 Malbec Mendoza (under $10): Rustic sort of wine, unpretentious. Good with pasta.

Give these guys in Pennsauken a visit if you haven’t–they get all sorts of affordable wines from small, obscure vineyards in Europe: http://moorebrothersblogs.com/

Noted pantywaist Philipe Jullian once wrote that good taste is made up of many small distastes–which I suppose is largely true, but I’d much rather dwell on the things I like. The opposite of love isn’t hate: it’s indifference. An old cliche, but that sounds about right.

By: C. The Impaler

C. The Impaler — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:55:25 +0000

Actually, fuckermost, I was saying Philebs had been saying Vampire Weekend played here. But that’s a battle that’s been fought.

By: fuckermost

fuckermost — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:24:42 +0000

CTI – that’s not ALL you said – you also said that vampire weekend played here. lord whimsy, would it be snobbery to know that vampire weekend sucks and to therefore miss the show? alas, it’s clearly a matter of taste! which, in response to your request for good wines within a decent price range i offer you something you more likely than not already know about: riojas. all of them. but if you must chose one, try and get a 2003 marques de caceres rioja. it goes with every course – and surprises you at dessert, when you’re on your second bottle, and haven’t felt the need to switch wines. truly amazing. it’ll cost just over 15 bucks.

if a snobby tree falls in a forest of good taste, did it ever really fall? sayin!

By: C. The Impaler

C. The Impaler — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:11:26 +0000

See Whimsy implicitly points out yet again, just like he did in a comment to that sepia tone photo, that NYC and Philly can co-exist after all. New York isn’t doing anything to Philly despite Philebrity’s xenophobia. If there are any urban transplants they should worry about, they’re from DC (city gov is now stacked with them). Really, thriving cities need an insularity that Philebrity breaks down every time it busts on people who’ve moved to NY (or the anonymous stats who come in from there). Real smug towns don’t just forget Pressler’s bf’s name, they forget Pressler too.

All I’m saying is the Pressler beat is played out. Especially on the “NYC ain’t interesting front.” I have fear that there’s a choreography in Sweeney’s head that includes an already written a cockle-warming, open-arms “welcome back j-girl!” post. It’s just a bit … creepy.

By: lord_whimsy

lord_whimsy — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:22:26 +0000

Well gee, I’d kinda like to see that movie–sounds interesting to me.

I have an antique dealer friend who buys out estate sale cellars on occasion, and he’s been kind enough to share bottles with yours truly. The first growth wines I’ve had the rare pleasure of tasting do live up to their hype, but I also have sommelier/winehead friends in NYC and Phiddy who have turned me on to some inexpensive $10-15 wines that are also wonderful table wines. (If anyone has recommendations, please forward them along–always looking for new wines to try, especially Spanish and Chilean reds.)

I’m not an expert and I’ll never be able to afford such rarities as my well-heeled friend, but the aesthetics, craft, terroir and history of old, rare wines becomes more compelling as you learn more about them. In that sense, is it really all that different from that other great pleasure, music? I hope we’re not suggesting that it’s the type of people, because that’s just a lazy, callow argument–as if we all can’t like both good wine AND roller boogie.

More aesthetes, less snobs!

By: garethnakov

garethnakov — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:38:48 +0000

internet rage is so cool. i want some.

By: The Management

The Management — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:46:37 +0000

The Management gives CTI’s above remarks The Gas Face.