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Sunday, December 31, 2023 - During New Year's Eve, the following wines were drunk, for starters Red beet carpaccio;

2019 Bizkaiko Txakolina XX Edition Limited.
100% Hondarrabi Zuri
2021 Kutch Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast
100% Pinot Noir

For main course, whole Entrecôte (on low heat 150 °C), hazelnut potatoes and pepper sauce;

Chateau Pontet Canet 2015
65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot.
Ridge Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2007
58% Cabernet Sauvignon, 42% Merlot.

For starters, it was very interesting to put a white and a red wine against each other. Everyone around the table thought both worked very well. 2019 Bizkaiko Txakolina showed straw yellow color, orange, herbs, a slightly buttery salty note, complex with good length. Although I myself thought the Kutch PN was fantastic with the food, sublime fruit, well balanced and a nice finish.

With the main course both wines were fantastic, what wines. Pontet Canet 2015 is, of course, young, and despite 4 hours in the carafe, the wine felt a little restrained to begin with. But after another 1 hour, this wine grew and grew, cassis and minerality that only good Bordeaux can exhibit. The Ridge Cabernet was just as good, and had an additional dimension of forest floor, leather, tobacco and blackcurrant, but also plum, but also red cherry. Classic Santa Cruz Mountain fruit, despite its 16 years, the wine exhibits a fantastic acidity. Glad I have a bottle left of the 2007.

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