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The Arrival to Philadelphia. Jackson-Triggs Vidal.

That’s a strange and interesting world at the same time. Oreo is inserted everywhere. You see a food and it gets combined with that treat with no matter on their incompatibility. It makes me believe it is the conspiracy – this cookie wants to take everything. It feels sorta paranoid. I know only one thing is that I won’t grab Oreo because it did leaning to political correctness – and that bad cookie stole a concept from Hydrox, which was selling this type of treat for four years already (it is since 1908).

 

I collected my wines Black Chicken Zinfandel and Canadian icewine Jackson-Triggs Vidal from variable alcohol drink stores in that stuffy day in New York. A big bottle of Polish Spring helped me to ignore the high degrees. Picking up wines wasn’t the one thing I did in the city that doesn’t dare to sleep. The inner wish to learn about the oldest pastry shops in New York already became with discovery of a finest place there and desire to taste a city’s cheesecake. Later, I found two more aged places, but they weren’t appealing.

The oldest is Holtermann’s Bakery. It was founded in 1878 by German immigrant Claus Holtermann and is located on Staten Island (who visits it?!). Their bakery products look likeable, but some of their cooking has too much powder and chocolate. Furthermore, they sell cookies with Elmo – this guy is a singular winner of the award for the most irritating look and voice in that gang, and I believe he is a commie because his color feels suspicious. I would forget everything that if the venue sold treats with Cookie Monster instead, because that personality knows about a good food. I’m disappointed if be laconic.

Caffe Roma Pastry was based in 1891. It includes well-made pastries. However, these sinners also do much sprinkling of powder on cakes (it includes cannoli–as Holtermann’s Bakery dusts a similar portion as well–and an apple pie – why do they do that, monsters?).

Ferrara, established in 1892, was a pastry shop that I wanted to come. It understands that Veniero’s Pasticceria doesn’t – a harmonious shape of berries. Their New York Cheesecake is authentic on look. A cover is usually not burnt out but if it does it is not so much, as that issue the Frank Sinatra’s favorite café has. If you understand New York Cheesecake you understand about life. Ferrera made a good cheesecake, but service for clients who wants to eat in the venue was an unknown to the pastry.

 

Arriving to Philly was by train. Before coming to there, I revealed that McGillin’s Olde Ale House takes gratuity only on split check. That definitely couldn’t propel me to step behind the doors of the venue that turns anything into fast food: Shepard Pie with a thick pour of gravy and meatloaf includes onion rings. There is no good restaurant in this town at all. I could choose only buying groceries though doing this thing in America should be careful because it is hard to discover the natural in this land.

 

The evening in one past capital of the USA was with opening the bottle of Jackson-Triggs Vidal. I was prepared to disappointment to icewine entirely for long, which was some time later of having German Black Tower.

Jackson-Triggs Vidal is the drink of 2022 and contains 9,5%. The scent is a variable sweetness from apple juice and grapes. The taste is sweet grapes that transforms into unwelcome density and a little portion of unfavorable acidity appears further. Acid apple in the end of drinking, and it becomes the aftertaste, which was without definition all that time before.


 
 

© 2018 by Lukaschik Gleb

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