Saturday night – “C” is for Chile – Part 1

Saturday during the day was spent out on the golf course with Mick and Amy so I went with a more basic dinner menu. Caesar salad to start and beef tenderloin with grilled shrimp, baby potatoes and green beans with Béarnaise sauce as the main course. The other motivation behind the main course is I found a new red wine that I wanted to try, but I will get to that later as I will start with the white wine first.

"Mmmm... Bacon"

For the Caesar salad I was about to grab a bottle of Louis Jadot “Bourgogne” Chardonnay to go with the salad and spotted a 2005 Joseph Drouhin “St. Romain” and went with it instead. A little Romain to go with the romaine if you will.

"Something new"

The nose on the St. Romain was dominated by green apple with just a hint of vanilla and lychee in the background. Tasting the wine, grapefruit is the first flavour that hits you with a bit of oaky-vanilla hiding beneath the grapefruit. The structure of the wine was off to me as I found the acidity high. I was an OK to good pairing with the Caesar salad but the Louis Jadot would have been a much better one.

There was no LCBO information on the wine which is where it was purchase about a year or so ago for about $27. The Wine Spectator didn’t have any information on this wine either.

Here is the group rating for the wine -Mick – 87, Mark – 86, Kathy – 86, Amy – 87, Overall – 86.5

The wine wasn’t bad but not the greatest pairing for Caesar salad. We discussed what pairing would be good for this wine and most of us were leaning towards seafood being a nice match for this wine. For the $27 price point, I would go with the Louis Jadot or a Kendall Jackson Chardonnay (which are both around a $20 price point) instead.

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