Pine Hollow Country Club
Tasted Friday, December 4, 2015 by VDLT Wine with 426 views
Dave & Caroline hosted their blind tasting dinner this year at the thier club. Lovely setting, private room and attentive service. Only drawbacks were high noise level from awful acoustics and having to contort your legs to negotiate the table's legs. There were 11 of us.
Surprise of the night due to obscurity and performance. Would have been better with food.
Pave of Sole with Caviar Beurre Blanc and Cauliflower Puree. Mediocre dish and the cauliflower may have undermined the wines. A good flight showing contrasting Chardonnay styles with the Aussie faring poorly.
Grilled Australian Lamb Chop with Truffled White Grits and Port Reduction. Very good lamb. I was thinking Cabernet Franc. Despite the single producer of the same wine, it was very difficult to recognize it. A less brett-dominated '98 might have tied them together better. The uncommoness of '95 & '98 didn't help.
Kona Coffee Crusted Filet Mignon with Horseraddish Whipped Potato and Glazed Shallot. A nice dish wherein a well cooked filet helped overcome this usually blah cut. In this course and the prior, a green or orange vegetable would have helped frame the wines. The atypicality of the Clerico's made it difficult to figure out the theme.
Chocolate Pot Du Creme, Chantilly Cream & Toasted Pistachio. An awful dish and a wine before its time. Fine because I'd had enough to eat and drink.
Lovely evening with some very good food and wine.
2002 Philipponnat Champagne Grand Cru Cuvée 1522 Brut
France, Champagne, Champagne Grand Cru
Lacks subtlety showing too much yeast flavor. I thought Napa.
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