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Scavenger Hunt, with Wine: Mission Accomplished by Lower Falls Wine Co., Newton

Posted 07/20/2008 at 12:15 AM by Cathy

They made it sound like it was no big deal.

The folks at Lower Falls Wine Co. left a voicemail, or maybe it was an email – they were so casual about it, I hardly remember – saying that my order of wines had come in and was ready for pick-up at any time.

It took me a minute before I remembered that the order they were so casual about was the same order (of 2006 Trimbach Muscat, to be precise) that I had been requesting at wine shops around Boston for the past 18 months.

I'd seen other Trimbachs around town, at restaurants and liquor stores. BLM Wine, for example, carries Trimbachs from the Gewurtztraminer to the Pinot Blanc to the Pinot Gris to the Riesling. But no Muscat. The Liquor Locker in Gloucester carries the same four, but again, no Muscat.

The only place I had found the Trimbach Muscat was at restaurants that are part of the No. 9 Park group. Specifically, I've seen it at No. 9 Park and at Stir, where Wine Director Cat Silirie first introduced me to the wine that, for me, changed everything.

Since that day, a year and a half ago, I've been bugging wine shop owners everywhere to do whatever it takes to get me a few bottles of the stuff. But the answer has always been the same:

"I asked. They still can't get any."

Or...

"Nobody has any. Are you sure you have the vintage right?"

But when the folks at the Lower Falls Wine Co. asked, they did get some. It only took a few days and it didn't even, at least by the sounds of it, take all that much effort.

My hats off to them.

I'm left with one lesson that goes something like this: "Keep asking – politely – until someone gives you the answer you want to hear."

More importantly, perhaps, I'm left with some questions. Will the 2006 Trimbach Muscat live up to the expectation of my memory? And how will it taste differently when I'm drinking it at home, compared to when I'm drinking it in the ambience of a No. 9 Park Group restaurant?

Those are potentially risky questions. But they're questions I'm eager to answer, for better or for worse.

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Cathy Huyghe
Cathy Huyghe

Cathy Huyghe writes about drinking wine every day in the Boston area. She finds the quirky characters, the after-hours events, and the surprising stories that make up Boston's vibrant local wine scene. But no matter where she is, what she's doing, or who she's with, she mostly just wants to drink the stuff.

Her first restaurant gig was at Chez Panisse, when she knocked on the kitchen's back door and asked if she could work there. She's also worked for Jean-Pierre Vigato in Paris and Thomas Keller in Las Vegas. She went to graduate school at Harvard (twice), and her writing has run in Boston magazine, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, Edible Boston, and on Nevada Public Radio and Grist.org.

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