A dinner with Mr. Genchev

Roasted beetroot with goat cheese and rocket salad for the Sancerre.
Slow cooked lamb shoulder for the reds.
Cheese selection included - mould rind soft goat cheese, aged hard goat cheese, truffled pecorino, truffled Manchego, Bulgarian cow and sheep kashkaval.
Salami - French saucisson - truffled, with pistachio and with perigold walnut.

• 2014 Chanoine Frères Champagne Réserve Privée Brut 90 Points

  France, Champagne

  Pears and apples, refreshingly easy to drink, joyful. Fair price @£19.99, but no way for the regular price of £39.99(from Majestic)

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• 2019 de Ladoucette Sancerre Comte Lafond 92 Points

  France, Loire Valley, Upper Loire, Sancerre

  Very good Sancerre, with a nice balance between freshness, minerality and fruit. Nice persistence throughout, it can easily be my new reference label for this appellation.

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• 2007 Tenuta L'Illuminata Barolo Tebavio 94 Points

  Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo

  Double decanted 4 hrs in advance. Sweet spices (clove, cinnamon), tobacco, dried fruits and a touch of menthol. Savoury, lean and full of energy. This is drinking very well now.

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• 2006 Barone Ricasoli Casalferro Toscana IGT 95 Points

  Italy, Tuscany, Toscana IGT

  Such a pure fruit that is screaming merlot, plums with that velvety caressing feeling I associate with home, and all of it from the moment you put your nose in the glass until the finish. There is a Tuscan twist as well, some sangiovese fruit + the usual tobacco and forest floor, but Merlot is the star here, and it is a top-class act. In the sweet spot for drinking now and the next 5y.

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• 2009 Joseph Drouhin Gevrey-Chambertin 93 Points

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Gevrey-Chambertin

  Excellent now, with vibrant fruit, freshness, and finely tuned balance. Wood is fully integrated. I was really enjoying the energy throughout, pure joy. And again, very impressed how the village level Burgundy is showing here - just entering optimum drinking window IMO.

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• 2015 Cave de Gan Jurançon Château de Navailles 93 Points

  France, Southwest France, Jurançon

  Oh, lovely again, with that clean and focused fruit - quince, peach and apricot - of great purity.

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Stellar line up, food friendly wines, each one in quite a distinctive style.