Saturday Night – Old Favourites – Part 3

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For dessert I wanted to have a 1998 Remo Farina Amarone. I did up a cheese tray with St. Pauline, Stilton and a Chipotle goat cheese and a chocolate tray with 70% dark chocolate squares and dark chocolate cookies.

"Tray of Goodies"

The nose on the wine reminded Mick of strawberry wafer cookies and there was a definite strawberry aroma on the nose with cedar and eucalyptus notes. Cherry was the dominate flavour to the wine with a bit of pine/menthol there as well. The structure on the wine was very good; nice balance and very approachable. It was a great pairing with both the cheese and the chocolate trays. I was worried about how the spice/heat of the Chipotle goat cheese would work but it was very good with wine.

"A perfect wine to end the evening with"

Here is the group rating for the wine – Mick - 89, Mark - 90, Kathy – 90, Amy – 89, Overall – 89.5.

The LCBO listing on this wine is long since gone as I bought this back in 2008 for a Wine Club meeting - http://zippysauce.blogspot.com/2008/05/wine-club-10th-meeting.html. The LCBO details can be found in the link.

It was a fun night with Mick and Amy and I forgot how good that Island Pork recipe was; it will certainly become a staple on my recipe rotation going forward.
Cheers!

Mark