This week's What We Drank is pretty diverse, with a couple New York wines, a classic chardonnay from Burgundy and one of least-flavorful beers in the world. Sadly that beer is my contribution. From Bryan Calandrelli: Louis Jadot 1999 Le Montrachet Having Old World wine geek friends has its benefits too these days. This is a bottle I would never have swooned over and it's a wine that my New World attention span wouldn't have recognized over any of the other of those Jadot selections on the shelf. It takes an educated eye to pick out this vineyard, Montrachet, and…
Posts Written OnJune 23, 2009
Ithaca Excelsior! Series TEN
By Kevin Burns, Beer Columnist Ithaca TEN is an "imperial American Extra Special Double Red Ale" that was created to celebrate the Ithaca Beer Company's 10th anniversary. The beer was released in March of 2008 as part of the Excelsior! series and is described by the brewery as an "exploded version of CascaZilla". In 2008 at TAP-NY, Ithaca TEN was awarded the gold medal of the F.X. Matt Memorial Cup as the best beer in New York State. The bottle is labeled Batch# E!011. TEN poured a light brown color with a small, pen-width, tan head. The nose had quite a bit of rich malt, with a…