Saturday Night – Mick’s Excellent Adventure – Part 1

Mick and Amy had Kathy and I both over for dinner last Saturday and Mick had two new dishes on the menu.

"New recipe"

He started the night with a curried bean soup which was a new recipe and paired it with a 2007 Reinhold Haart Kabinett Riesling.

The Riesling had a faint nose of fresh cut lime and pineapple. Tasting the wine before the food, it was very simple and tasted like green apple juice that had alcohol added to it. It was very simple and one dimensional and without the food was cloying and sweet. The wine’s saving grace is it was very good with the food.

"Simple"

Here is the group rating for the wine – Mick - 85, Mark - 85, Kathy – 86, Amy - 87, Overall – 85.75

Here is the LCBO Information on the wine –

REINHOLD HAART RIESLING KABINETT 2007

VINTAGES 727461
750 mL bottle
Price: $ 19.95
Wine, White Wine
13.0% Alcohol/Vol.
Sugar Content : M
Made in: Moselle/Saar/Ruwer, Germany
By: Weinexport Hildegard Haart
Release Date: Feb 6, 2010

Tasting Note - From a combination of younger vines and 'pre-harvest' selection (Vorlese), the Haart's 2007 Piesporter Kabinett smells of apple and grapefruit; comes to the palate quite softly-textured and delicate; and displays crushed stone and a slightly detached but refreshing lemony citricity in its rather sweet finish. All in all, though, this will provide considerable satisfaction over the next couple of years. Score - 91. (David Schildknecht, www.erobertparker.com, June 2009)

The soup was very good but Mick was a little heavy with the spice weasel as the soup quite spicy. The heavy spice hid other flavours that the soup had to offer and I think it would have been much better toned down so those other flavours came through more.

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