Saturday night – Sometimes you feel like a nut – Part 1

This past Saturday it was time for me to tighten up the apron strings and get cooking as Mick and Amy were joining us for dinner. The menu was a couple of old favourites; almond crusted goat cheese wheels with poppy seed dressing and pine nut and basil salmon as the main course.

"Goat Cheese Salad with Raspberry and Poppyseed dressing"


The first course was the almond crusted goat cheese wheels with poppy seed dressing on a bed of baby spinach. I paired this with a Markus Molitor Kabinett Riesling which we have reviewed before - http://zippysauce.blogspot.com/2010/01/saturday-night-going-little-coco-nutty.html.

The nose on the wine was a nice mix of peach, orange zest and lychee. I picked this wine as the pairing because for a Kabinett Riesling it was very sweet and was actually closer in style to a Spãtlese Riesling. Tasting this wine the sweetness was certainly there and it had an orange liquor flavour to it. The acidity was there but a touch softer than it should have been as on its own it was a touch cloying at times but was very good with the salad.

"Orange you glad you picked this one!"

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

Here are the LCBO details for the wine -

MARKUS MOLITOR RIESLING KABINETT 2007

VINTAGES 115634
750 mL bottle
Price: $ 20.65
Wine, White Wine,
11.0% Alcohol/Vol.
Sugar Content : M
Made in: Moselle/Saar/Ruwer, Germany
By: Markus Molitor Vineyards
Release Date: Jul 18, 2009

Description - A true visionary, Markus Molitor is driven by an uncompromising devotion to quality at all stages of the winemaking process and believes that each vineyard and vintage should express itself through his wines. In the Wehlener Sonnenuhr vineyard, only organic materials are used, yields are kept low, and grapes are hand-picked. Keeping with his philosophy of authenticity, Molitor ferments his wines using only wild ambient yeasts. This world-famous vineyard site is known for producing wines that are impressive for their juicy fruit, unique balance, nuance interplay and piquant acidity.

I like this Riesling due to its orange flavour which makes it very different from other Kabinetts that usually have a lime or green apple flavour. If they would tone down the sweetness and/or up the acidity this would be an amazing wine.

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