Saturday night – Amy’s needs two and half people to replace her! Part 2

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For the main course, Mick was firing up the grill again but this time for lamb skewers. He accompanied the lamb with roasted baby potatoes and Greek salad. He also made up a batch of homemade Tzakiki “Hey you lika da sauce!” sauce. Mick choose to pair the lamb with a 2005 Castle Rock “Edna Valley” Pinot Noir.

"Sorry for the poor quality picture - I though the picture was blurry 'cause I was drunk... turns out it was blurry!"

I laughed as I poured out the Pinot Noir as it was slightly more opaque than the Zinfandel was and was wondering if this was going to be the most “Zinfandel like” Pinot I’d ever had. The nose was odd as there were some aromas like green pepper, mint and pine there that I usually don’t associate with Pinot Noir as well as a good hit of cherry. Thankfully the taste was very Pinot Noir; nice fruit, high acid and low tannin with a nice cherry/plum favour working throughout.

The lamb was beautifully grilled to medium-medium rare and Mick’s Tzakiki was very good as well. The wine was a good pairing, not perfect but still quite good. The Greek salad would throw the wine a bit at times but the lamb and potatoes went really well with the wine.

Here is the group rating for the wine -Mick - 86, Mark - 87, Kathy – 87, John - 90, Overall – 87.5.

The LCBO doesn’t list the wine and I couldn’t find the exact review for this wine but after web searching it looks like this bottle was about $12 US so $19-20 CDN after duty, taxes and exchange. Not a bad wine for the price point.

For dessert we broke out a bottle of Yalumba Antique Tawny Port (I have reviewed this a couple times so I won’t bother doing it again) and three different types of Blue cheese. Kimmy made a pumpkin pie which I didn’t have any room left to try after all of the food but my wife really liked it and considering she isn’t a huge fan of pumpkin pie that is really saying something.

It was fun getting together with John and Kimmy, Mick did an outstanding job with the food but without Amy there it felt like something was missing but as the song says 2 out 3 ain’t bad!

Cheers!

Mark