Saturday Night – Mick’s busy in the kitchen – Part 3

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For dessert Amy picked up a Lemon based cake and this was paired with a 2006 Late Harvest Riesling from Henry of Pelham.

"Thank goodness this was a lemon based dessert!"

I was pretty excited about trying this wine as the 2005 Henry of Pelham Botrytis Affected Riesling was awesome and the 2006 Henry of Pelham Late Harvest Vidal was one of the best Late Harvest wines I have tried. So the 2006 Late Harvest Riesling by Henry of Pelham had some great siblings to live up to.

"Not what I've come to expect from Henry of Pelham!"

I was shocked at how pale this wine was for a Late Harvest wine as they usually are closer to amber in colour whereas this was so pale I’d of guessed it was a Sauvignon Blanc. The nose was extremely disappointing too as most Late Harvest wines the nose is so powerful you can almost smell them across a room. The nose on this wine was extremely faint, so faint that you could barely catch the barest hint of floral it contained. Tasting the wine was also disappointing as it was very sweet without the usual high acid to cut through the sweetness. The main flavour was tropical fruit/pineapple. It wasn’t bad with the Lemon cake though as the lemony tartness of the cake help offset some of the over ripe sweetness of the wine.

Here is the group rating for the wine – Mick - 86 Mark - 83 Kathy – 87 Amy - 86 Overall – 85.

I think my companion were a touch generous with their ratings and that is probably because it did work so well with the dessert. If we had some apple based rather than lemon based for dessert like we usually do with Late Harvest wines, I think their ratings would have been much lower.

There was no LCBO information on this wine, if I remember correctly this was a bottle Mick and Amy picked up directly from Henry of Pelham. I’d probably guess the price point to be in the $19 to $23 range.

I’d like to thank Mick for all the wonderful food as it was all very good. December is shaping up to be a stupid busy month for the 4 of us so not sure when the next Blog entry will be coming.

Cheers!

Mark