A wine I’ve overlooked in my cellar. TWS says it’s passed its best; well it is thin, with a lot of tobacco on the nose and mellow tannins. Perhaps not robust enough for confit duck but pleasant nevertheless.
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Wynns, The Siding, Cabernet Sauvignon, a lovely example of an affordable CS from this leading producer.
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Friends round for dinner tonight. The ‘Gentil’ from Hugel went beautifully with scallops grilled with a pumpkin seed, chilli, coriander and lime sauce. The Wine Society 2020 Santa Barbara Chardonnay is made by Au Bon Climat and is just sensational. Had with baked cod loin with mustard and tomatoes. 2010 Faugeres was had with cheese course
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Our son came over for dinner today and set up my new iphone. Beautiful reisling as an aperatif, surprisingly full in the mouth, rich ripe fruit and delicious appley acidity, so good. TWS Exhibition Victoria Shiraz wenr with the beef casserole, very big with soft tannins but good structure, ripe and rich plummy and long. Fab.
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Mrs HH tried this at her wine group and was very impressed, so we bought a bottle to have at home. It’s 70% Sauvignon Blanc and 30% Obeïdi, grown at high altitude. It’s very hard to describe, so I’ll stick with delicious. Maybe @Rod_Smith might like to say more.
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Sami Ghosn, one of the two brothers that own Massaya is a real character though maybe making wines in the Bekaa Valley does this to you. He has done wine dinners and tastings at our wine merchant in Cheshire who has been a good friend of his for years, with loads of visits and a big fund raising push after the Beirut fertiliser explosion that hammered the economy. They use a range of familiar and ancient varietals, of which obeidi is one from the distant past probably Phonecian. I have had it blended with merweh in the white wine of Chareau Musar - delicious!
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One of my favourite.
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Back to Lidl and the £7.99 range.
But 2023.
Well rated on Vivino who reckon it is sultry. Sad to report a couple of glasses did not summon up either Rita Heyworth or Ava Gardner.
The label reminded me or Russell #4 . ‘Just checking Dad. Would I knobble it? Yes.
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Not every day you get to share a stage with Jancis Robinson, presenting her with the Lifetime Achievement award (for James Halliday). He could not attend. She won last year (and could not attend then herself.)
An honour.
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Well done - I seem to drink more wine at lunch and dinner since retiring. The social lubricant that is wine can add so much to business conversations.
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Valentine’s Day is not much af event for us but gives an excuse for a decent dinner at home. Salmon en croute was delicious with this palamino-muscatel blend that we enjoyed but probably divided the crowd with some skin contact and somewhat cloudy.
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Have posted this wine recently so apologies for the repeat but decided I needed to have a nice glass (OK, two glasses) after returning from a couple of hours continuing with my research into a potential upgrade to my existing NAIM system. Some positive progress made…and NAIM is back in the game.
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Montlandrie 2021.
This is lovely. Decanted for an hour with wine in glass for 30 minutes, lovely light ruby colour. Beautiful nose, red cherry, chocolate tannin scent, floral hints (violets?). The palate is equally attractive, great acidity and firm slightly dusty chocolate tannins frame excellent mid weight fruits, red cherry, plum, a reasonable amount of complexity and a lovely fruit perfume lingers. After an hour or so the red cherries darken to black cherry, it keeps the acid/tannin structure and there is a bit of spicy complexity. It’s a fantastic wine, it lacks the weight of a top-rank claret, but it’s absolutely lovely, really enticing nose, well balanced fruit and structure, so enjoyable.
For me the best value in Bordeaux, if it had a posher appelation than Castillon the price would be much higher. It’s still quite youthful, it’ll age well for around 10 years I reckon. (At least one merchant still has the ‘19 which based on the vintage I’d expect to be even nicer and last longer, mine are still in bond.)
First wine on my own at home for a long time, and the first that isn’t a repeat wine with no major changes in taste for a similar period of time, My London partner in crime and I have been drinking favourites for a while, although I don’t think I’ve previously noted last week’s Giscours 2006, but didn’t take a picture.
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Intrigued at your decanter, would the metal not alter the taste?
Martin