Conversations with Friends.

 
For Episode 3 on our Con­ver­sa­tions with Friends series we had the plea­sure to chat with Robert Ammi­rati, great pho­tog­ra­pher and friend. We talked about how Red Hook, Brook­lyn is now becom­ing the new Soho and how the magic of shoot­ing film will be lost on younger gen­er­a­tions of photographers.

The wine we enjoyed today was the 2009 Joseph Drouhin Beaujolais-Villages, Bur­gundy, France.

The 2009 Beaujolais-Villages from Joseph Drouhin is a stun­ning bot­tle of wine that has to be one of the absolute steals of this superb vin­tage. The bou­quet is deep and exu­ber­ant, as it soars from the glass in a fan­tas­tic blend of plums, black cher­ries, intense vio­lets, choco­late and woodsmoke. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, plush and tangy, with a rock solid core of fruit, just a whis­per of tan­nin and out­stand­ing length and grip on the com­plex and per­fectly bal­anced fin­ish. High class juice for its pedi­gree and clearly a wine that will improve with bot­tle age– though good luck try­ing to keep your hands off of this gem!” 91 Points — John Gillman