Saturday Night – Back to Normal – Part 2

The second course of the night was another favourite that we haven’t had in a while – Blackened Scallops with Avocado & Corn Relish. Mick chose a 2004 Vineland Estates Dry Riesling as the pairing for this dish.

"Betcha you can't just eat one!"

This was another wine that we had to work at to find the aroma as it had a very mild nose with subtle notes of floral, orange and wet stone. On its own this wine wasn’t at all nice as it was very green and acidic with flavours of green apple, lemon and yellow grapefruit. The wine was better with the food but not by much. Thankfully the Black Scallops were so damn good you barely noticed the wine.

"Now almost drinkable!"

Here is the group rating for the wine - Mick - 84, Mark - 79, Kathy - 82, Amy -82, Overall – 81.75.

Here is the LCBO Information on the wine –

VINELAND ESTATES RIESLING VQA

LCBO 232033
750 mL bottle
Price: $ 13.95
Wine, White Wine,
11.8% Alcohol/Vol.
Sugar Content : 2
This is a VQA wine
Made in: Ontario, Canada
By: Vineland Estate Wines Limited

Tasting Note - Medium straw colour; delicate floral, citrus, apple and peach aromas; peachy and citrusy flavours; light-bodied, medium dry with crisp acidity

Serving Suggestion - seafood chowder, glazed ham, Chinese food and smoked salmon.

* Note – Not a 100% sure this LCBO listing is the correct match; it was the only Vineland Riesling they had listed but the one we had was “Dry” and this is listing the sugar content as a “2”.

I think Mick was being very generous with his 84 especially considering he gave the Fumé an 87 as this wine was no where near being within 3 points of the Fumé. I’m going to assume he was still very drunk from said Fumé.

I will add that I’m happy we tried the Vineland Riesling as unless you try new wines you won’t find that ‘next’ amazing bottle.

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