Dinner at Mistral (Princeton) with Bala, Jen, Sue and Tash

Princeton, NJ
Tasted Tuesday, July 21, 2015 by TashNYC with 708 views

Introduction

After Bala's conference we went to dinner at Mistral. There was a 40 minute wait, then someone fainted in the restaurant (with the police and paramedics called) and when we got to our table, the staff poured ice cold water all over Jen -- oops! But the food was great and the people were really nice.

The restaurant is BYOB (now with a $15 corkage) and we had 3 wines with dinner.

Flight 1 (3 Notes)

  • 2005 Adega da Cartuxa Pêra-Manca Branco 91 Points

    Portugal, Alentejano, Alentejo, Évora

    A tasty wine. Notes of pear, apple, hazelnut, nuts. At Mistral. Best with the mushroom on toast with veal tongue. Drink now.

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  • 2007 Peter Jakob Kühn Mittelheimer St. Nikolaus Riesling Großes Gewächs 92 Points

    Germany, Rheingau

    A tasty wine. Lovely notes of pear, apple, acidity, minerality. Best with the oysters and with the rabbit and the burratta. Very dry wine - perhaps too dry for Sue and JRex. But I loved it.
    We got this on close-out at State Line Liquor (in MD) and it was the only bottle they had. Delicious now but could definitely age some more, too.

    A beautifully-made wine: low-yielding 60 - 80 year old vines, biodynamic viticulture, 30% of the juice fermented on the skins for six weeks, twelve months in 600 litre "Halbstück" barrels, bottled unfiltered in September 2008 under screwcap (convenient for restaurant drinking)

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  • 2006 Nicolas Potel Volnay 1er Cru Caillerets 92 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Volnay 1er Cru

    What a tasty wine. Notes of red fruit, bramble, herbs, funk, tobacco. With Bala, Jen R., Sue R. and me at Mistral. Best with the pork bellies and also with the rabbit. (Sad for Bala, who doesn't eat any of those).
    Very good on its own, too.

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