{"id":198,"date":"2016-03-01T03:10:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T03:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2016-03-01T03:10:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T03:10:10","slug":"jazz-and-wine-new-orleans-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Jazz and Wine, New Orleans Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are many restaurants that offer a jazz brunch.\u00a0 Usually, they are neither good jazz not good food.\u00a0 Two for the price of one often means not much at all, even for the price.\u00a0 A wonderful exception is Bacchanal Wine in New Orleans.\u00a0 As the name implies, it is really a wine bar first with jazz as an additional benefit.\u00a0 It is also a wine store with a pretty wide-ranging selection and a caf\u00e9 with a menu that isn\u2019t very wide-ranging at all. The food is more in the way of nibbles, with a soup and a sandwich available as well.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s jazz most of the day, starting with lunch.\u00a0 Jazz, wine and food are served in a courtyard in the back, or upstairs if the weather doesn\u2019t cooperate.<\/p>\n

Now, about the wine.\u00a0 While Bacchanal does have formal wine tastings (Wednesdays and Saturdays), the wines they have on offer at the bar are easy to treat as a wine-tasting.\u00a0 They are all reasonably priced at around $8.00 a glass.\u00a0 But if you go on a Monday, such as we did, they are all sold at $5.00.\u00a0 At that price a couple can sample quite a lot.\u00a0 We had the opportunity to taste two Ros\u00e9s (Spanish and South African), two sparkling wines (American and French) and three reds: a Malbec from Argentina, a Nebbiolo from Langhe and a Rioja Tempranillo.\u00a0 Some of those weren\u2019t glassfuls but rather sips to see if we liked them.\u00a0 A few we didn\u2019t but most of them we did.\u00a0 A nice feature is that the wine store supplies the bar, so if you like something in particular, you can buy it and take it home.<\/p>\n

We had particular fun with the jazz.\u00a0 The musician was Raphael Bas from Southwest France.\u00a0 He plays Gypsy jazz (also called manouche) on guitar and harmonica. He is a special favorite of ours, whom we\u2019ve heard play and sing for about a decade when we visit New Orleans \u2013 which we do a lot.\u00a0 That day he was accompanied by Matt Schreiber on the accordion.\u00a0 You can listen to Raphael at https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=grHKKhnBqCM<\/a><\/p>\n

\"bacchanal2\"<\/a>Raphael and Matt play indoors on a rainy day<\/em><\/p>\n

A word about the location.\u00a0 It\u2019s a long way from the French Quarter in a sector called Bywater, probably because it\u2019s by the waters of the Mississippi River.\u00a0 The road there, the extension of the same Chartres Street that\u2019s so pretty in the French Quarter, is desolate and industrial, with a shipyard just across the street.\u00a0 When you do arrive at Bacchanal, you may well think you\u2019re going into a dump, more of a tumbledown saloon that a place for wine and jazz.\u00a0 Take heart; it\u2019s better inside and in the courtyard.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a place to walk to, so you\u2019d better take a cab and then get a number to call a cab to go back, because there are none trawling this neighborhood.\u00a0 The bar staff will help you with a number if you don\u2019t have one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are many restaurants that offer a jazz brunch.\u00a0 Usually, they are neither good jazz not good food.\u00a0 Two for the price of one often means not much at all, even for the price.\u00a0 A wonderful exception is Bacchanal Wine in New Orleans.\u00a0 As the name implies, it is really a wine bar first with … Continue reading Jazz and Wine, New Orleans Style<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}