While NY State Theater, their Lincoln Center home, is being renovated,
City Opera is doing some concert performances in other boroughs.
Yesterday was Brooklyn, so I was in charge of dinner (a real bonus of
cellphones, Betsy could keep me posted re return time). I baked red
snapper filets with a butter/herb dressing, served with wild rice,
salad, broccoli, and the 2002 Daniel Barraud "La Roche" Macon-
Vergisson. Six years is pushing it for Macon, but this was far from
dead. Clean citrus and green apple fruit, there is a little vanillin
hint of oak(?), big for a Maconnais wine. Good length, some flinty
mineral notes on finish, nice wine. Would it have been better a year
or two ago? Maybe, but quite pleasant now. Perfect for the fish. B/B+

Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an excellent
wine, B a good wine, C mediocre. Anything below C means I wouldn't
drink at a party where it was only choice. Furthermore, I offer no
promises of objectivity, accuracy, and certainly not of consistency.
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