Paul & Elsa's Anniversary Dinner

Sean & John's private dining experience
Tasted Sunday, December 6, 2009 by Alex H with 587 views

Introduction

What a night! A 7 hour long dinner with countless courses! A night hard to forget...this was a trip in itself.

Flight 1 - Apperitif and Starters (2 Notes)

Started out with an amazing gelatin made from gin with a port jelly centre filling side by side with a mojito apple bit. A banging start!
Next was the most memorable dish of clear seafood broth with a skinless wanton of almond essence...Mind jerking dish.

Flight 2 - White Burg with lobsters (1 Note)

Two lobster dishes, one in a very clean pristine and pure broth and the other served with a very complexly prepared poached egg. The cleanliness of the broth brought out the vibrancy of the montrachet in a contrasting way while the egg complemented the richness of the montrachet.

  • 2001 Olivier Leflaive Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet 87 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru

    White chrysanthemum tea boiled with white jasmine flowers, some white musk and slightly smoky. Lightly butter pan fried mushrooms and popcorn caramel. This has good butter bread nuances lifted by delicious lemon mineral acidity. Lovely wine that is beautifully fresh and vibrant. Long finish.

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Flight 3 - German Riesling (1 Note)

Absolutely perfect pairing with the pork in apple sauce.

Flight 4 - Sauternes and Foie gras (2 Notes)

The rich creamy foie gras didnt quite match with the sauternes but hey it is d'yquem! Just drinking it counts for points.

  • 2003 Château Suduiraut 86 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Sauternais, Sauternes

    Feminine display of fresh jasmine flowers, white musk and fresh apricots and peaches. A very expressive floral nose but done in such an enchanting style. Extremely drinkable with suprising balance. This is just so light-hearted.

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  • 1995 Château d'Yquem 87 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Sauternais, Sauternes

    Masculine expression of a refined well-manicured gentleman. Handsome aromatics of rich toffee, christmas butterscotch and egg nog.Roasted nuttyness, caramel and apricot brandy . This is complex and richly decadent.

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Flight 5 - 2008 Italian Moscatos (2 Notes)

Paired nicely with saffron tagliatale with brocolli.

Flight 6 - Aged Bords (2 Notes)

Beef with carrot sauvce( which was absolutely fabulous and tasty) served with a side of potato skins (my favourite crisps).

  • 1982 Château La Gaffelière 85 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Libournais, St. Émilion Grand Cru

    Tobacco, green capsicums,and stemmy notes. Old berries,red dates with chinese medicinal herbs and a streak of bitter roots. Very typically aged left bank bordeaux characteristics even though it is not. Understated sweet red fruits still lingers on the mid. This increasingly got from herbal to downright tobacco-ey to cigar to cigarette ash.

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  • 1986 Château Cos d'Estournel 85 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Estèphe

    Very lifted and deep nose of powdered white pepper, tobacco and spices. Very dense whole and big angular cabernet fruit. Got some minerals, graphite bitterness and pencil lead. Finishes with very bitter cocoa and like biting on a cigar. A bit tightly woven and ruggard that needs a good meat to round out the edges.

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Flight 7 - 89 Sauternes (2 Notes)

3 flights of desserts- violet ice cream on chocolate mousse with shreds of zuchinni, gorgonzola cheese cream with biscuit crumbs and brandied cherries, apple tart pasty - light and fluffy.

  • 1989 Château Rieussec 86 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Sauternais, Sauternes

    Coconuts, fresh apricots and smoky. Still sweet and sappy apricot nectar. Still an adolescent and needs time to mellow. Another decade would be good. Not as generous as the last bottle we had and was missing out those secondary nuttyness from previous bottlings. This one seemed more primary.

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  • 1989 Château Doisy-Védrines 87 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Sauternais, Sauternes

    A rich deliciously unctuous dose of honeyed apricot brandy with some caramel roasted nuts and some christmas spices as well as a touch of ice cream soda. Decadent but not yet opulent.

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Flight 8 - Hangover Cure (1 Note)

What I drank the morning after...

  • 2005 Domaine Dominique Mugneret Vosne-Romanée 83 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Vosne-Romanée

    Still young and fresh. Dark florals, black cherries , good mid fruit palate and had some spices on the front. Smooth delivery from start to finish and after a night of wines, normally any alc on the next morning will burn but this did not! So I can only imagine how smooth this would hv been if I had tasted it while my throat was fresh. Simple straightforward wine but does have depth. Held up pretty well throughout the 1.5 hours in the decanter. Might improve with more ageing.

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