Went to Michael Mina, SF last night. Nice place with a swarm of wait staff. We had the N.V. Gaston Chiquet Champagne Blanc de Blancs d'Aÿ. Wicked good, i love the nuttiness. I had the '5 fish' platter, supposedly a smattering sampling of (cooked) Japanese fish as well as the dungeness crab ravioli.
We brought a bottle of 2002 cos d'estournel which was drinking nice, good mature bordeaux funk present, though a tad less sweet than the 2001 we had last week at Chez Panise. Yet after all the ooh'ing and ahh'ing over these wines, I just opened the homemade production of one of my deli owning patients whose bottling "supertuscan luigi genicolo cellars contra costa county CA" (name affixed via return address label) is smashing it out of the ballpark. This is not a commercially available wine (as far as i can tell). It smells of dark cherries and oak chips, has very visible sediment, and tastes awesome - dark berries, cherries, chocolate, with very dry tannins on the finish. Blinded who knows what i'd guess - Brunello maybe? Certainly not a homemade production from an octogenarian. 93 points at least. And what does that say about wine in general - certainly something.
Bravo Luigi (can i have a case?).
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