Mount Pleasant Augusta Village

[Innkeeper]

1998 Mount Pleasant, Augusta Village ($11). Medium bodied blend of Couderic and Saint Vincent is similar to a Cru Beaujolais. A little pepper along with fruit on the nose and upfront tastes. Round, soft tannin and nice complexity on the palate, and a happy finish. Great with broiled kielbasa and spinach. Also lovely for late night quaffing listening to Yo-Yo Ma's Appalachian Journey in the dark.

[winecollector]

"Yo-Yo Ma's Appalachian Journey in the dark?" I can hear it now.... "I can't see where I'm going.... AAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHH....!!!!! .... THUD

[RAD]

IK--

I hearby dub thee our Resident Wine Vernacular Neologist with your new descriptive entry into the enophile's lexicon: "happy finish." I like it!

This despite your insistence a month or so ago that "unctuous" and its various derivatives have no place in describing wine; I beg to differ. At any rate, the title is now yours, bolstered by your descriptive recipe prowess.

Winoweenie, of course, speaks his own language, so he wasn't in the running. [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/biggrin.gif[/img]

RAD

[winoweenie]

WW goes not at running, but the luxurios pace of motivated non-motion. Lift the glass Sucker~!,. WW Would also have been a killer with Carmen McRaes Trilogy.

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[Thomas]

Did you know that ww upside down is mm? Must have somethin a do wif the black helychoppers overhed--conspiracy!

[mrdutton]

And here all along I was thinkin about Copeland.......... din't he do the Appalachian Journey.......? How did Yo-Yo Ma get into the picture

There was some other stuff also, couple of operas, symphony pieces and stuff like that, wurn't there? By Copeland, that is.

Where are Enya and Yanni when you need them?

[Thomas]

Enya and Yanni are the same people: Jumble
E N Y A to spell Y A N E (another spelling of Yanni). Want more proof? Have you ever seen the two of them in the same room at the same time? I rest my cassis. ...

[ddf68]

MrDutton, you're right about Copland, except that I think you're thinking of a ballet called Appalachian Spring. Yo-Yo Ma has released a CD of him and some other people doing some bluegrasssy instrumental stuff and called it "Appalachian Journey". It's really good.

ddf

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[mrdutton]

Ddf - you are spot on. Yes I was thinking of Appalachian Spring.

The Yo-Yo Ma CD does sound interesting. I'll have to give it a shot. I'll have to break out a Crus Beaujolais cuz I don't have any of the stuff from Mount Pleasant, but I am sure that IK will forgive me.

[Innkeeper]

There are no Copeland pieces on this CD, so I guess they stole the title from him. Regardless there is some great sounds on this disk. Yo-Yo teams up with fellow classical artists Edgar Meyer and Mark O'Connor and get some more Classical Bluegrass sounds out of a violin, a cello, and a bass than you could believe. They are assisted on some of the cuts by some other folks. James Taylor helps out with vocal and guitar on Stephan Foster's "Hard Times Come Again No More", and just guitar on another cut. Alison Krauss (of whom I had not heard) does vocal on Forter's "Slumber My Darling", and violin on the tradtional "Fisher's Hornpipe." Almost all the other cuts were put together for the CD.

Like I said, wonderful sounds to listen to in the dark with a great jug of red wine.

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