On 12/20/2012 09:06 PM, Bi!! wrote:
> On Dec 20, 2:17 pm, Emery Davis > wrote:
>> On 12/20/2012 06:22 PM, Bi!! wrote:
>>
>>> Cordellian Bages is always a good value wine in my cellar. I've
>>> stayed there a few times....good chef and convienent to Lynch Bages
>>> and The Baron and Comtess.
>>
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> In the early 90s Adele and I stayed there for a few days with close
>> friends Lloyd and Allison while exploring the Medoc. (Lloyd and I are
>> old wine buddies, we used to picnic every month or so with whatever
>> great bottle we could find; I remember a way too young '82 Margaux one
>> spring day for around the price of the C-B today!)
>>
>> The wine highlight of the trip was a very deep vertical at Haut Bailly.
>>
>> There was a mishap at the restaurant which we still talk about
>> sometimes, we had all order the "pigeon in 3 ways", something happened
>> in the kitchen and there was about a 45 minute pause between each pigeon
>> course. The restaurant was pretty appalled when they realized what was
>> happening, and we were all in good humor (and no hurry) so no harm was
>> done. I also have a fond recollection of the food in spite of the
>> screwup...
>>
>> -E
>
> Hi Emery-
> Great recollections of a fun place! We were there in the late
> 90's with a dear muscian friend and his wife. After dinner one
> evening we adjourned to the salon and began drinking Cremant de Limoux
> with a dash of brandy in the stem of the flute (bad idea) another
> guest and his wife joined us as we had toured The Baron together
> earlier than day. The other guest was from a prominent Columbian
> family (Escobar) and recognized my musician friend (Roger McGuinn) and
> requested that Roger play a song. We had no guitar so Sr. Escobar
> sent a busboy out to find a guitar. He gave the lad a couple hundred
> Euros/Francs (they were just starting to convert currency) and told
> him not to come back without a guitar. While the lad was out getting
> the guitar Roger slipped up to his room and came down with one of his
> Martin stage guitars as he was on tour at the time. The lad returned
> forlorn and empty handed but Mr Escobar told him to keep the money and
> just keep bringing more Cremant. At 2am the night manager apologized
> that they had run out of Cremant and could he suggest something else.
> Thankfully Mrs Escobar had had enough and we could adjourn to bed
> after singing every song the Byrds ever recorded. The next day I only
> ordered the soup.
>

Fantastic! Clearly Senior was used to getting his way, it's a good
thing Roger had a guitar handy after all...

We didn't drink the place out of Cremant but we went through several
bottles during the interminable main course! Not exactly bright eyed in
the morning either.

There's a good lunch spot you've probably been to also, on the D2 in
Margaux: the Lion d'Or. Young (then anyway) Benjamin of d'Angludet
recommended it to us. Another 5 course meal, one of the courses was
pigs trotters. These we pushed around the plates until they were taken
off to the disapproving glances of the waiter. He came back several
minutes later with an enormous Chef's Salad, loaded with duck, sausages,
eggs, etc, saying the Chef was concerned we wouldn't get enough food
since we didn't like the trotters, so he had prepared an extra course
for us!