Upper House Dining

A great dinner at this new restaurant in Sweden's second city, Göteborg. Magnificent view over the city from the 23th floor where this stylish restaurant is situated.

The menu consisted of the following items (my notes are few and hardly legible):
- numerous appetizers
- smoked mackerel with chive as sauce or juice
- carrot, beetroot and various other vegetables
- a kind of bread baked on a hot stone at the table (accompanied by beer: Poppel's American pale ale)
- white asparagus with a kind of shrimp
- turbot and chanterelles
- sweetbreads and a farce
- ... first dessert ('yellow cream' says my notes?) accompanied by Prunotto moscato d'Asti 2013
- strawberries as puré, soup and crisp

Surely, this meal deserved at least one star. I especially liked the emphasis on vegetables and the fact that most of the wines were white.

• 2012 Domaine Franck Millet Sancerre Insolite

  France, Loire Valley, Upper Loire, Sancerre

  This seemed to me to be extraordinarily soft and rich for a Sancerre, with flavours of butter, white fruits and lemon. Atypical.

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• 2010 Wenzel Furmint Vogelsang

  Austria, Burgenland, Neusiedlersee-Hügelland

  I don't know if it should have had more air, but it had a most extraordinary aroma of turpentine and hay. On the palate it shows high acidity and is very dry. Interesting and challenging, definitely a food wine.

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• 2012 Wittmann Westhofener Morstein Riesling Großes Gewächs

  Germany, Rheinhessen

  Should have had more air or more years, nevertheless an excellent wine, dry, precise, meaty, with emerging complexity, surely with aromatical resemblances to Keller's Westhofen wines.

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• 2006 Domaine de Montille Beaune 1er Cru Les Aigrots Blanc

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

  This was really extraordinarily good and beat even the preceding Wittman Morstein GG: A harmonious, expansive wine with a creamy texture, it showed all that is great in a mature white Burgundy.

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• 2005 Dureuil-Janthial Mercurey

  France, Burgundy, Côte Chalonnaise, Mercurey

  Spicy Burgundy with iron and minerals, rather than luxurious softness. Quite good.

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• 2006 Wenzel Ruster Ausbruch Am Fusse Des Berges

  Austria, Burgenland, Neusiedlersee-Hügelland

  Beautiful rich nose with botrytis in abundance, and a taste to match. Wonderful.

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