Saturday Night – Let’s mess up the Top Ten list – Part 1

This past Saturday Mick and Amy were by for our usual Saturday night dinner. The menu for the evening was a curried Thai sweet potato soup with grilled shrimp and multi-grain pita and was paired with a 2005 Wegeler Kabinett Riesling. The main course was a grilled steak slices with fresh corn and baby potatoes paired with a 2005 Rutherford Hill Merlot

"Curried Thai sweet potato soup"

Kathy and I had the Wegeler Riesling earlier this month and really enjoyed it so I wanted Mick and Amy to try it as well.

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The curried Thai sweet potato soup was also a new find that I wanted to share with them as well. I decided to add some grilled shrimp and pita as sides to the recipe as both are great for dipping with the soup. I poured out the wine slightly ahead of them arriving as I find this wine gets better as it warms up a bit as it really tends to open up.

"Awesome!"

Shortly after they arrived, all four of us sat down to eat but we did take a minute to examine the wine before starting. The nose of the Riesling consisted of citrus, petrol, melon and an undetermined floral note to it. Tasting the wine, the first thing that hits you is a sweetness on the tip of your tongue with a green grape/apple taste through the mid-palate with a really great finish. The Riesling has nice fresh acidity which really helps cut through the initial sweetness of the wine. The character of the wine when paired with soup intensives and really brings the wine to life. This wine is very easy drinking and we were all commenting that you could kill a couple bottles of this with no problem at all.

Here is the LCBO Infromation on this wine -Wegeler Riesling Kabinett 2005

VINTAGES 650994

750 mL bottle

Price: $ 29.70

Wine, White Wine

8.5% Alcohol/Vol.

Sugar Content : MD

Made in: Moselle/Saar/Ruwer, Germany

By: Geheimrat J. Wegeler Erben

Release Date: Jul 21, 2007

Tasting Note - Ripe and juicy, with tangerine, lime and mineral aromas and flavors. Shuts down a little, needing time to integrate, yet all the components are in the right place. Finishes long. Best from 2008 through 2018. Score - 92. (Bruce Sanderson, www.winespectator.com, Feb-07).

Here is the group rating for the wine -Mick – 91, Mark - 93, Kathy – 90, Amy – 90, Overall – 91

With a 91 overall rating this wine slides, in my opinion, rightly into the Zippy Sauce Top Ten. Speaking of the Top Ten, that brings us to Part 2 of this article…

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