2010 Simple Wine Dinner Series No.6 - SBSS "Dry" Dinner
Peach Garden @ OCBC Building
Tasted Friday, July 16, 2010 by Sleepy Dave with 753 views
Introduction
Millions Thanks to Ed, to make this happened. We have had a great GG tasting with famous or world acclaimed best Riesling producer. Despite the 12 GGs that we supposed to have, Ed has brought along two mysterious red, plus Paul's dessert, sweet Riesling - Spatlese from TM and a fortified from me. What a night, 17wines for 12pax!
The dishes are as great as usual in Peach, with special highlight of their signature Wasabi Prawn, Double-boiled Shark's Bone Cartilage Soup with Fish Maw and the absolutely delicious and refreshing dessert.
Serving:
- 8flight, each flight 2wines, blind.
- At the end of the night, everyone vote for their best 3wines of the night.
- Reveal the best 3wines of the night and its identity ^^
Flight 1 - Wasabi Mayonnaise Prawn (2 Notes)
The Diel isn't match with the prawn dishes which show very alcoholic and heaty attack.
Flight 2 - Double-boiled Shark's Bone Cartilage Soup with Fish Maw (2 Notes)
This is a MUST try! The soup is incredibly thick, with heavenly flavors. It deserve to be served on its own, and if there is any wines that could match the crazy thickness of this soup, it would be cognac or port.
Felsenberg, a huge surprised that it performed so well, a wine full of finesse, grace and in a total harmony. Bravo! Group #1, mine #1
Flight 3 - Deep-fried Fillet of Sea Perch with Superior Soya Sauce (2 Notes)
Another Must Try dish. The Sea Perch is sweet and deeply flavor, though the texture not as silky as cod, this is good by its own with the lovely crispy fish skin and delicious sauce which pairing well with the Dellchen but overpower by Weil.
Flight 4 - Braised Homemade Beancurd with Stuffed Golden Mushroom, Local Spinach and Crab Meat (2 Notes)
Yummy beancurd with strong big bean flavor match very well with the crabmeat sauce.
Flight 5 - Pan-fried Beef Tenderloin with Marmite Sauce (2 Notes)
The tenderloin is seriously juicy and tender, Yummy! Though the sauce is slightly on the heavier side which make the pairing not really working with the lush, and med body Pomerol, and work slightly better with Phelan Segur, the tenderloin become juicy and sweeter, and highlighted the secondary note such as Tobacco and Cigar box, and soil of Phelan Segur and notice that the fruits flavor is gone.
Flight 6 - Fried Rice with Assorted Seafood and XO Sauce (2 Notes)
Very good fried rice.
Flight 7 (2 Notes)
Flight 8 - Chilled Royal Jelly in Young Coconut / Chilled Black Glutinous Rice with Ice-Cream in Young Coconut (3 Notes)
I think the dessert this time is not as excellent as the one I had but still very good and refreshing and shouldn't miss.
Closing
Results:
Donnhoff did a clean sweep for #1 - #3 with Felsenberg suprisingly great with almost everyone voted their #1 of the night. Hope I got the wine ranking right for #2 & #3
Group #1, mine #1 - 07 Donnhoff Felsenberg
Group #2, mine no - 08 Donnhoff NH
Group #3, mine #3 - 07 Donnhoff Dellchen
Group #4, mine #2 - 07 Robert Weil
After this comprehensive and impressive GG tasting of 07 & 08, conclusion is 07 has better balance for its ripeness - minerality and dry extract and the 08 is powerful, mineral driven wine while some of them may not have enough ripeness to balance with its high acidity and dry extract which tend to be more bony.
All the wines having similar super aromatic nose, good precision, focus, tension and delineation, the only different is the scaling, depth, complexity and finesse in great GG and average GG. Nevetherless, all are first rate GG in their own way, the only matter is which style you prefer:
1. Fruits driven wine posses ripe - round - creamy texture with great balance. Not bone dry
2. Mineral driven wines which display tons of dry extract, clean, pure, sharp with tons of power, bone dry
3. The best for me is the style in between 1 & 2 which is perfectly balance of its fruits - mineral - dry extract - high acidity with good finesse and class.
Bordeaux flight is outstanding with its quality despite from unknown producer (Montviel) / lesser known in its region (Phelan Segur). Both are very classic Bordeaux which respect to its terroir, drinking beautifully now and has no problem to age and improve in the bottle for another 5yrs. Great to know that there are still affordable and quafferable classic Claret in great vintage, provided you're willing to find and try.
While Schaefer Frolich spat is rather simple, straight forward sweet juice, the Klein Constantia is clearly a better wine (though different category) with pure, ripe elegant fresh fruits flavor with good underlying acidity and pure juicy finish, the Chamber display a lots of power, depth, persistently long finish.
2007 Schlossgut Diel Dorsheimer Goldloch Riesling Großes Gewächs
Germany, Nahe
Alcohol :: 13%
Tasted Blind. Highly expressive and aromatic nose of floral, pink guava, peach with mineral, wet stone which is clean and focus. Entry attacked by ripe fruits, minerality and salted sea shell, spicy liquid rock, almost tasted like rock with hint of heat and alcohol at the very end with soft persistent finished with spicy, lemony undertones. This is fine, precise, and mineral driven with lots of power, almost clean and vibrant if not with the hint of alcohol at the very end. A lovely wine. A nightmare to pair with the Wasabi Prawn, full of alcohol and heaty attacked the palate.
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2007 Weingut Keller Kirchspiel Riesling Großes Gewächs
Germany, Rheinhessen
Alcohol :: 13.5%
Tasted Blind. Also very aromatic of red floral, towards Tropicana fruits like pineapple, peaches, fresh with hint of pink guava notes. Fruitier, bold and not as sharp compare to 2007 Diel Goldoch GG, with acidity appears in the mid palate toward the citrus and peaches like finishing. Overall this is also very fine GG with creamy friendly texture with light citrus lemony finish. Not bad, just not as precise. Hopefully another 3-5yrs of bottle age will shed off some fleshes and getting more balance with its fruits driven characteristic. Skip.
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