Coravin fun - food matching
My place, Kent Street
Tasted May 27, 2018 by chatters with 192 views
Introduction
I've been experimenting with dry aging meat - started small with some lamb chops - and thought I'd try some matching mature, less mature and young Bordeaux to them. Also salvaged some pine mushrooms from a secret location in the Southern Highlands so the Bordeaux got double duty…
Flight 1 - Bracket one - food matches (3 notes)
Pine Mushrooms, butter, garlic, bay leaf, thyme…All the wines worked in their own way but no real stand out - I suspect any Pinot would have worked just as well if not better...
Dry aged lamb chops, lemon & herb poached carrots and onions…The Senejac was just too young but the Grand Puy Lacoste and Patache d'Aux both worked very well, albeit in different ways. Success!
Red
1996 Château Patache d'Aux Médoc
France, Bordeaux, Médoc
From Coravin. Wild blackcurrant, leather, mushrooms, herbs and spices, yeast extract, earth…Sourly juicy blackcurrant fruit, some bitter coffee grinds, leathery, flour textured tannins and a little warming savoury spice on the finish. Yum and crazy QPR at $30AUD a bottle
Red
2008 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste
France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac
From Coravin. Cassis, cream, vanilla, sweet spice, very polished. Just beginning to show a very slight leather note and some Bovril on the nose. In the mouth it's juicy and quite round with generous cassis driven fruit backed by vanilla oak. Tannins are chamois soft. Very drinkable and, for me, still quite youthful with just the first glimpses of age characteristics.
Red
2015 Château Sénéjac
France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Haut-Médoc
From Coravin. Medium plus intensity aromas of blackcurrant, brambly, earthy, meaty with sweet spice. Juicy, savoury black currant fruit, a little liquorice, tight, drying, talc textured tannins. Despite being bounced around in my bag all day this is really juicy/fruity/young but balanced and, to use an ugly phrase, utterly smashable.
Closing
Well, what a lot of fun…as usual! The Senejac was just too young to play nicely with the lamb…lesson learnt for me - And kind of a reinforcement of yesterday with the Lanessan and the short beef ribs (which worked quite well)…
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