Saturday night – Blackout dinner – Part 1

Back in 2003, Ontario and a good chunk of the eastern US lost power - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Blackout_of_2003. When the blackout occurred, I’d been planning on grocery shopping that night as there was no food in the fridge. Kathy and I decided to walk up to Mick and Amy’s and see where they stood for food. We caught Mick in the driveway when he was getting home and he had four large steaks that he’d been planning to cook up that night for dinner and to use for meals over the next couple of nights. As he had a ton of steak to get through, we joined him and Amy for dinner. The one thing we had plenty of at home was wine so we offered to bring a couple of bottles to go with the steaks. Mick did up the steaks and some corn on the cob and the four of us enjoy a great meal with a couple of bottles of wine. The wine that night was going down way too easily so the four of us walked back to our house to get a third bottle and we killed that too. It ended up being a great night and every year since we get together for steak, corn and wine to celebrate that night.

For the first course Mick broke tradition and started us with some chips and sour cream as a starter and paired this with a 2009 Eradus Sauvignon Blanc.

The nose on the wine was mild with apricot, grapefruit and orange zest aromas. Tasting the wine it started with a nice apricot flavour but finish with a grapefruit flavour. The wine had a bitterness in the mid-palate which I didn’t care for but other than that was decent. It went well with the chips and dip.

Here is the group rating for the wine – Mick - 86, Mark - 84, Kathy – 84, Amy – 86, Overall – 85.

Here is the LCBO information

ERADUS SAUVIGNON BLANC 2009

VINTAGES 225557
750 mL bottle
Price: $ 14.95
Wine, White Wine
13.0% Alcohol/Vol.
Sugar Content : XD
Made in: Region Not Specified, New Zealand
By: Eradus Wines
Release Date: Jul 14, 2011

Description - Ottawa-based wine critic Rod Phillips gave this wine a score of 4 1/2 stars (out of 5) in his online newsletter. He recommended enjoying the wine with a 'wide range of white fish and seafood.' (www.rodphillipsonwine.com, Jan 19, 2011)

Tasting Note - Eradus continues a successful run with this year's Sauvignon Blanc. As usual, it's fairly pungent and herbal upfront, but then delivers waves of passion fruit. It's concentrated and fairly full-bodied for a Sauvignon, with a lingering finish.
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