For the last course of the evening, Mick did a Crab melt served with toasted pitas, tortillas and celery and carrot sticks. He paired them with a 2006 Amayna Chardonnay.
"Mmm...melty"
The nose on the wine was an interesting combination of vanilla, gooseberry and buttered popcorn. Tasting the wine you’ll notice vanilla and lime flavours running throughout the length of the wine. Strangely enough, this wine had more oak to it than the Cuvaison but the acidity on this wine was crisper and offset the oak better and due to this I actually like this wine better than the Cuvaison in spite of the oak. It was also a stellar pairing with the crab melt and goodies.
"A wine with character"
Here is the group rating for the wine -Mick – 88, Mark – 88, Kathy – 85, Amy – 85, Overall – 86.5.
Here is the LCBO Information for this wine -
06 AMAYNA CHARDONNAY (GARCES SILVA)
VINTAGES 76265
750 mL bottle
Price: $ 20.10
Wine, White Wine
14.8% Alcohol/Vol.
Made in: Chile, Chile
By: Vina Garces Silva Ltda.
Release Date: N/A
For $20 this is a decent Chardonnay with character that would be a nice addition to anyone’s Wine Rack.
We finished up the night with some cupcakes that Kathy had picked up from a local specialty dessert store.
Thank you to Mick and Amy for hosting the night and it was nice to get back to our ‘usual’ though recently not so ‘usual’ Saturday night dinners.
Cheers!
Mark
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