Wine for Passover 2017
Our Seder at Home
Tasted Saturday, April 15, 2017 - Sunday, April 16, 2017 by Loren Sonkin with 404 views
Introduction
This past week we held a Seder at our home. This is the cultural dinner that is part of Passover. As always, we attempt to invite neighbors but also people who have never experienced Passover before. There were ten but at the last minute our daughter surprised us by coming home from college to join us. We are not super religious but we do try to follow the rules for the most part. For the last 25 years we use a Hagadah (the prayer book) called A Seder in 20 Easy steps. Works for us. It was a great evening as we celebrated the holiday, told stories, had lots of laughs and too much food.
We are vegetarians so the Seder food was all vegetarian. The Kosher wines were perhaps not as good as we hoped for. There are some good ones, but we tried some new ones this year. Still, they were good enough to drink and that didn't deter any of the enjoyment.
Flight 1 - Sparkling wine (2 Notes)
Technically, not part of the Seder. While waiting for everyone to show up (from Strongsville, Bay Village, and down the street) and for Alee to surprise us, we had some roasted almonds and Kosher Sparkling wines.
Flight 2 - The Seder wine (1 Note)
This was used during the Seder to bless the wine and commemorate the 10 plagues.
Flight 3 - White Flight (1 Note)
With Homemade Matzoh Ball Soup, "Mock" Liver and Israeli Chopped Salad
Flight 4 - Red Flight (1 Note)
With Cauliflower Schnitzel, Spinach and Onion Quiche and Vegetarian Tzimmes (kind of a mixture of Sweet potatoes, potatoes, apples, pineapple and other stuff cooked for a long time).
Flight 5 - Dessert (1 Note)
With Flourless Chocolate Tort, and Macaroons.
Flight 6 - And a final glass (1 Note)
As we opened the door for Elijah, finished up the prayers, this made for nice sipping.
Closing
Thanks to all for joining us. Next year in Jerusalem?
2009 Golan Heights Winery Yarden Blanc de Blancs 80 Points
Israel, Galilee, Golan Heights
(4/15/2017)
Why is was this night different from all other nights? Because on other nights, i would have dumped this out, but on this night, my options were limited as I wanted to drink (mostly) Kosher for Passover wines. Light golden in color. A lot of froth, the cork popped loudly despite my best efforts. Bubbles were medium sized. The nose is a soapy with some minerality. On the palate there is sour green apples. Typically that would mean acidity in a wine, but not here. Its not terrible, but just barely drinkable. It certainly was not sucked down by the 10 of us and it got no "oooh, this is good comments". $27
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NV Backsberg Brut 83 Points
South Africa, Coastal Region, Paarl
(4/15/2017)
This was at the local grocery store. $20 marked down to $7. Why not? It wasn't bad. Certainly the best South African Kosher Sparkling wine I have ever had. Light gold in color. A fair amount of medium bubbles.
The nose has a nice minerality. Slight melon note. On the palate, this is slightly sweet. Decent acidity. OK finish. Certainly at $7, it competes with Cava or Prosecco in that range.
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