I'm trying to write this and everything that pours from me is sounding like a magazine article. Sometimes it's very difficult to turn that voice off. And so, what we have here is a very lack luster entry. It happens.

Jenny Lefcourt of Jenny & Francois imports, has set up the wine list at her friend's brand new cafe in the sleepy (but just minutes away from being obnoxiously hip) 18th.

She's managed to rig a system to hold twelve unsulfured wines on tap. The wines arrive into the cafe in cask and have a tube inserted which attaches to the spigots. The system floats nitro on top of the wines and there is an apparant lack of contact with wine-killing oxygen. The system seems to work very well.

I was just about to get sick (excuses!) which is why I took lousy notes but I would have been very happy just to taste the wines from the system and not crack a real bottle (the bottle I did have was way over oaked, I don't care how 'unmanipulated' it was, it stank. That, by the way was a Saumur-Champigny-- Bobinet, the Amteus.

Food is inexpensive and very good--thanks to the efforts of an Italo/Corsican chef. Bistro. Imaginative. Tasty.

WINES FROM THE SPIGOT AT LAST LOOK:

Verre Pichet Pichet
L A F O N T A I N E (12 cl)
(25 cl) (50cl)

B L A N C
Christian Venier, Sauvignon, AOC Touraine 2005 3,00 € 5,50 € 10,00 €
Domaine Guillot-Broux, AOC Macon Village 2004 3,00 € 5,50 € 10,00 €
Domaine de la Senechalière, AOC Muscadet 2004 3,50 € 6,50 € 12,00 €
Domaine des Quarterons, AOC Sancerre 2005 4,50 € 8,50 € 16,00 €
A. & O. DeMoor, AOC Bourgogne, “A Ligoté” 2005 4,00 € 7,50 € 14,00 €

R O S E
Domaine Rimbert, VdT Roussillon, “L’arrosoir à rosé” 3,00 € 5,50 € 10,00 €

R O U G E
Christian Venier, Vdt Loire, 70% Pinot noir, 30% Gamay 3,00 € 5,50 € 10,00 €
Clos Siguier, AOC Cahors 2004 3,00 € 5,50 € 10,00 €
Estézargues, AOC Côtes du Rhône 2004 3,00 € 5,50 € 10,00 €
Domaine Guillot-Broux, AOC Macon Cruzille 2004 3,50 € 6,50 € 12,00 €
Domaine des Deux Anes, AOC Corbières 2004 3,50 € 6,50 € 12,00 €
Rimbert, Travers de Marceau, AOC St-Chinian 2004 3,50 € 6,50 € 12,00 €

Vin Doux et Aperitif

Sablonnettes, Côteaux du Layon 1/2 sec 2004 5,50 € 32 €
Champagne Alexandre L, Brut Blanc de Blancs 8,00 € 50 €
Plageoles, Muscat Nature, AOC Gaillac (pétillant) 5,00 € 25 €
Bertucci, VdQS Cerdon de Bugey 2005 (rosé pétillant) 5,50 € 28 €

La Cave Café, 134, rue Marcadet in the 18th