Sunday, July 6, 2008

Thelonious Monk, Brilliant Corners (Riverside)


Things have a way of falling together if you let them. Like the time you were in New Orleans (post-Katrina, with a hole in your heart) and you walked down Magazine Street with Ania and Jenny Alonso. You dropped into a wine store just to see what they had there, picked up a bottle South African Petit Chenin. You had the salesgirl there put it in the refrigerator as the three of you went up the street to order a pizza for take-out. In these circumstance you must always have spinach and feta on your pizza and so that's what you did. And you came back to the wine store, pulled out the bottle (well-chilled by now), and had pizza and wine at a sidewalk table much to the admiration of the passerbys. A gentle nudge of lemon and lime against the spinach. The only thing that could have made it better would have been to have Brilliant Corners playing in the background. Maybe Monk dancing around your table in circles.
Suggested Wine Pairing: As if you had to ask, it's a Ken Forrester Petit Chenin, 2006 ('07 also acceptable), Stellenbosch South Africa (because lemon is an anagram of melon and happenstance is always circular, like the tympani on "Bemsha Swing").

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Lovely. Thanks for helping me relive that day.

Very cool concept for a blog. I look forward to reading more of your posts.