The Iron Chevsky Wine Blog

I run a wine tasting club at  Tango . It's a great perk for employees, especially when their VP of Engineering (i.e. yours truly) personally invests time and energy to entertain and educate. About a third of the company attends, it's popular. To celebrate our recent D round ( $280M ) and passing 200m registered users, we splurged a little bit. See for yourself - this was a mesmerizing line-up of some of the world's greatest wines. Chave and Quintarelli were jaw-droppingly, mind-bogglingly great. Others - very good too. Tasting notes: JL Chave Hermitage blanc 2009 - wow, amazing wine, depth, complexity, impact! Up there with top grand cru white burgundy. Marquis d'Angerville Volnay 1er "Clos des Ducs" monopole 2006 - top wine from Volnay, complex and interesting, secondary notes, but a bit medicinal / pine-needle and in need of more time to smooth out the remaining tannins. I suspect that 2006 was not the greatest vintage of this legendary wine. Gia...

Why is Dan the gour-MAN-d? Because he... 1. Chopped the herbs from his garden with a professionally sharpened knife. 2. Sautéed garlic in olive oil. 3. Minced boiled potatoes in a potato ricer. 4. Combined with the sautéed garlic. 5. Added 3 table spoons of butta. 6. Added a spoonful of secret concentrated chicken stock. 7. Frothed milk in a cappuccino machine and added to the mash. 8. Mashed into a fluffy heaven. 9. Grilled rib-eye medium-rare, seasoned only with salt-n-peppa, on a mesquite grill. Set aside to rest. 10. Made a secret red wine / beef demi-glace. 11. Sautéed fava beans from his garden, and shitake. 12. Made a salad with broccoli raab greens from his garden as well. 13. Sliced the steak, seasoned/garnished with the chopped herbs. 14. Popped a bottle of Giuseppe Quinterelli Primofiore 2005. 15. Plated and served. Giuseppe Quintarelli, of course, is the man in Valpolicella, Veneto . His Amarone della Valpolicella sell for stratospheric prices and are the best in the worl...