Umeå, Sweden
Tasted Friday, June 1, 2012 by StefanAkiko with 520 views
It's a wonderful thing to arrange a wine dinner together with your children. Shopping with My on Thursday. Cooking together on Friday evening and enjoying the wines in three flights.
Nina, Mattias, My, Joel, Jakob, Josephine and two late guests.
Two types of pickled herring on thin crackers MARRIED this wonderful wine.
The wines were unnecessarily ill-chosen. (I'm the culprit.)
Fillet of beef with Coffee Rub, sautéed mushrooms chipotle style with ruccola and aïoli.
Followed by a "complicated" cheese plate.
Dessert (rhum ice-cream and strawberry sorbet) served with the Champagne.
Dark Rhum praline with green tea and Alexander Grappa.
The Côte du Rhône was the WOTN. High odds for that one. The most promising (of course) being the Bastide Blanche.
The cheese plate was a little complicated and grappa was found to not be a big hit amongst the kids.
Little over half the wine was drunk and only a very small amount of grappa.
Kids went out clubbing. Daddy went to bed.
1999 Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt Scharzhofberger Riesling Auslese 92 Points
Germany, Mosel Saar Ruwer
Non-blind. Served immediately.
Nice, mature color.
Very fine petroleum nose with fruity Riesling components.
Taste is the reason why mature Rieslings are so great. Unusually low levels of acids for a Riesling, but nothing bothersome. Fantastic balance, long, multi-faceted expressions and a lot of happy peach.
Married its plate: two kinds of sill (pickled herring): Elderberry and citrus + garlic.
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