Booze

The large bottle of new-to-us Sylvaner. With Kumpf et Meyer being an entirely respectable establishment, into natural methods but without a website. 16 biodynamic hectares in northern Alsace, as described at reference 1.

The wine was fine, but perhaps not quite as good as the Sylvaner noticed at reference 2. Included here so that I can find it next time. Maybe the menus at Terroirs evolve, with wines and cheeses coming and going.

PS 1: I don't think I have ever come across any Kumpfs before, but it just so happens that the villain in my latest Maigret, 'Le Fou de Bergerac', is called Meyer, from somewhere unspecified in central Europe, the sort of person to whom you would go if you needed some forged papers. It was also the name of the Director General of Statistics at the time I did my stint at Eurostat. A post presently occupied by one Ms Kotzeva, lately the Head of Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute, and never again to be occupied by an Englishman - if it ever was.

PS 2: investigation reveals that the statistical Meyer was actually Jacques Mayer, spelt with an 'a', ably supported by one George Clark, from our own Central Statistical Office, who went on to serve a succession of DG's in the same capacity. Keen on jazz as I recall. From the time when it was still OK to take white wine at the canteen at the top of the Kirchberg Tower during the working day.

Reference 1: http://dryckesbutiken.se/producers/domaine-kumpf-et-meyer/.

Reference 2: http://psmv3.blogspot.com/2017/11/cheese-home-overseas.html.

Reference 3: Memoirs of Eurostat: fifty years of serving Europe - KS-49-02-183-EN-N - 2003.

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