Dirty South Wine

The French Laundry Gets Rowdy and Dirty

Rowdy, Dirty, and team Berk hit the French Laundry (vid by Rowdy Food)

Huge thanks to Becca, Lady Rowdy, Kevin, Joel, and Rowdy for an incredible night.  

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From Popeyes to The Laundry, that's how we roll.  I'm thankful for all of it. The people who make it happen, keep it going, and who share the ride.

AWW YEAH! POPEYES Online Pairing Wines 4! (5!?!?!)

(The Salinia crew puts up with Dirty and Rowdy)

Sorry for the radio silence here, but we have two weeks to go to the Popeyes Online Wine Pairing Challenge.  All 4 wines are in and there is now a 5th and final from none other than the fried chicken powerhouse of Kevin Kelley and his Salinia / The NPA crew!

Here are all the wines (order them asap, because two may be tougher to find)

All 5 Wines--

Besha Rodell from Atlanta's Creative Loafing

Kiralyudvar Tokaji Sec 2005-  Dry Hungarian Furmint

(Robert Chadderdon Import) 

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Kevin Kelley and the crew from Salinia Cellars / The NPA

Renardat-Fache Bugey du Cerdon- Sparkling Gamay

(Louis / Dressner selection)

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Mutineer Magazine's Editor in Chief, Alan Kropf

2008 Snoqualmie "Naked" Riesling-

Organic, Washington State Riesling

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Jon Bonné from the SF Chronicle selects the elusive and proven

Francois Pinon Vouvray Brut Non-Dosé

(Louis/Dressner Import) 

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Lyle Fass from Rockss and Fruit selects

Willi Schaefer Estate QBA 2008

(Michael Skurnik Wines)

A German Riesling from an uber producer.

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Tasting details-  

1.  Go out and source all 5 wines (you may need to order some, so check quickly)

2.  Invite a ton of people over for a party on 11/18 (enough for 5 wines)

3.  Buy enough Popeyes Spicy Fried Chicken for everyone (mixed light and dark, sides, red beans and rice, and fries)

4.  Taste these online live with the contestants on 11/18 via twitter and the hashtag #drtybrd

5.  Vote for your favorites and talk some trash about the others.

6. Kick everyone out of your house and digest them dirty birds!

TIME:  11/18 6PM PST 9PM EST

Working on getting live streaming set up from our Healdsburg party.  

THIS IS GOING TO ROCK!!!!!

Flashlight Fried Chicken, Biodynamic Gamay, and Freaky Grilled Quail

(Grilled Quail, and 2007 Clos Roche Blanche Gamay)


(Szechuan "Nashville Hot Chicken" and 2001 Dirler Riesling)
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The Birds were fried outside by flashlight so as not to fill the kitchen with that dirty south, fry-stank. 

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Grilled quails served up first (in daylight) and were paired with the Gamay.

2007 Clos Roche Blanche Gamay
(France, Loire Valley, Touraine)  $15-$20.  Louis Dressner Import
Clean, mean, and delivers, cranberry, raspberry, pepper, and earth.  This wine needs to open up (60+min), but when it does, textbook delicious.  Someone please distribute this in GA!

Though a light bodied wine, this was actually too big for the quail, and we swapped it out for some white Burgundy.  This stuff is the pure goodness...

2006 Henri Perrusset Macon Villages
(France, Burgundy, Maconnais, Macon-Villages) Chardonnay, $15-$20, Kermit Lynch Import
Straight up citrus and tree fruit-  full bodied, like a dose of unsweet lemon candy, and a slightly bitter finish. 

The finish was a bit off kilter at first, but once opened (45min) this rounded out really nice.  It killed it with the Quail- Just enough acid, and fruit, not overpowered by the grilled parts, and good quaffin' while eatin' on a hot porch.

With the spicy, fried birds we needed some residual sugar and acid to work with the heat--

2001 Dirler-Cade Riesling Kessler
(France, Alsace, Guebwiller, Alsace Grand Cru AOC)  Riesling.  Approx $40, Robert Chadderdon Selections.)
Nose of mango, rock, and diesel.  Full bodied, rockin' acids, and a long finish.  I like this stuff a lot.   A lot. A lot.

This rocks with the chicken, straight up.

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A great night with killer food and wine, in the dirty south!

(Huge thanks to Chez Rowdy for doing the cooking, and taking the sick pics!)

Dirty Via Rowdy!-- A Spectacular Evening at ENO Atlanta

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Emphatically ENDORSED BY VinTANK

Rowdy & Dirty Birthday Bash

Great thanks to the all of the crews that came out for the Rowdy & Dirty Joint Birthday bash!  The hospitality from Rowdy and Lady Rowdy was just awesome- as was Rowdy's famous chicken and pulled pork.  Muchos Gracias for helping us celebrate!

(photo by ATL photog-wunderkind BRODERICK!)

(Photo & Gift from Biskuit)

(Vince Neil was there in Spirit / Tequila)

Rowdy's famous fried chicken- Southern, Szechaun, and Nashville Hot

Lady Dirty showing her decorative work w/ Dirty's Chocolate Spice Cake from Grandma's recipe

Rowdy Went Dirty?

You got here from where?

There are probably a lot of you who typed in rowdyfood.com and that have found themselves here- at Dirty South Wine. This isn't a glitch, or a hiccup, but Rowdy was kind enough to forward his rowdyfood url to my place here on the web.

If you liked Rowdy's posts on food, hopefully I can share some adventures with wine. While no one can fill his shoes- or those freaky red pants, I'll try to keep you entertained while I barrel my way through wine in the Dirty South. To the fans of Rowdy, let's kick back, open something good (and better yet, cook something up too), and raise a toast to what was easily the best and most entertaining food blog in Atlanta! Rowdy- You are one in a million!

For those of you that aren't familiar with Dirty South Wine- I'm not a critic, an expert, or an industry insider- I'm a just passionate consumer. Beyond seeking out great & unique wines. I may map out MARTA routes to some of my favorite places that allow BYOB, throw in the occasional wine influenced music videos, and capture some events, dinners and tastings done at local spots with friends. Also- Dirty South Wine HQ is just recently the first ATL high rise residence to be certified as an Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary- (this is big, really big)

So if you've come from Rowdy Food, I hope you stop back in, participate and leave some comments. I think he'd want this to go to eleven.