Woke up reasonably early yesterday morning and took the métro in to town (17ème) to get the seafood for the evening meal. Ended up spending a fortune on 4 dozen oysters, a couple of dozen of really big shrimp and 4 live lobsters (2.5 kg). This was the first time that a fishmonger actually had the lobsters in an aquarium. That should have given me an indication as to the price before I got started.
Got the food home and then spent a good portion of the day programming and then working on the 2003 family newsletter. A year late... but better late than never...
We had an absolutely wonderful meal, just the 4 of us, and absolutely every bottle of wine was wonderful. We started with an Ehrhart Gewurztraminer (Herrenweg - not Grand Cru) which was perfect with the oysters and shrimp. For the grilled lobster we opened a Moreau-Naudet Chablis Grand Cru Valmur 1996. What a pleasant surprise. A truly special bottle: complex and well-balanced in all aspects. Truly delicious and long. Ended the evening with a sort of Tarte Tatin and a small bottle of Château Le Fagé Monbazillac Grande Réserve 1998. Another delicious surpise as this was nice and long in the mouth without the sherry aftertaste their wines tend to get after a few years. Overall a delicious evening.
We finished the evening playing Euro Monopoly in front of the television and celebrated the New Year together yelling and screaming out the door as people walked bye. We called whoever we could on the phone to wish them the same.
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