On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 20:26:15 +0100, "Steve Naïve" >
wrote:

>
>From reading your notes, I'd hate to up against you without a cold!

Steve, at the end of the dinner, since we were staying at a hotel a
short walk from the restaurant, we walked under torrential rain and
despite the umbrella got totally drenched, thus putting my nose
totally KO for the rest of the weekend... ouch my brain hurts...

>
>Edited notes;
>> Sauternes served with pan fried escalope of foie
>> gras [...] A classic (and often wrong) match, but here
>> it worked well.
>
>Why do you say a wrong match?

It's just that people think that because they have read that sauternes
goes with FG, then any sauternes will do, but most lack the acidity,
no matter whetherthey ar e old or young. (If the acidity is there to
begin with, it will not diminish with age...)

> Is it because most people serve older
>Sauternes (and the foie gras needs acidity?) I'm probably barking up the
>wrong tree here, I'm not too good on Sauternes (except for that Yquem 1990
>I once had ...)

That was the other choice on the wine list. A bit steep though, $260,
not bad for a restaurtant price, but still....

This place had an incredible cellar, Grange des Peres from every year
since the first, Peyre Rose, Rayas, Gangloff, Jamet, Beaudouin,
Poirel, Gaillard, Ostertag, Gauby, Barral, on and on and on...

Ian, if you are in Lyon, the menu at night is 45 Euro. The room is
stunningly beautiful. This guy is in none of the guides, he used to
run the Cote Rotie in Ampuis. Even before the star arrives, he is
already packing the room just by people hearing about the place on the
grapevine.

BTW, the Maison Borie is in the old abattoir district (appropriately
named "Mouche"), and the building was the site where the first
Parisian bateau-mouche were made...

Mike