Saturday night – Mick’s Mom joins us for dinner – Part 1

The past Saturday night we had Irene, Mick’s mom, join us for our usual Saturday night dinner. Mick and I split up the menu for the night and we ended up with a five course meal for the evening.

The first course was Kettle chip Smoked Salmon bites and we paired this with a Masottina Prosecco.

The nose on the wine was a pleasing mix of yeast, lime, roses and lychee. Tasting the wine you get an initial flavouring of lemon that transitions to a lime flavour on the finish. The structure on the wine was good as the crisp acidity really brought this sparkling wine to life. It was a decent pairing with the Smoked Salmon bites but once we finished those, I brought out the extra chips and the leftover lemon/cream cheese topping and the wine paired amazingly well with just the chips and dip.


Here is the group rating for the wine – Mick - 89, Mark - 89, Kathy – 87, Amy – 88, Overall – 88.25

Here is the LCBO information on the wine -


MASOTTINA EXTRA DRY CONEGLIANO VALDOBBIADENE PROSECCO SUPERI


VINTAGES 216317
750 mL bottle
Price: $ 19.95
Wine, Sparkling Wine, Other Sparkling Wine
10.7% Alcohol/Vol.
Sugar Content : XD
Made in: Veneto, Italy
By: Masottina
Release Date: May 14, 2011

Tasting Note - Masottina has been producing wines since 1946. Aromas of apples, peach, and floral. The palate is very dry, with a racy acidity and fantastic fruit throughout. Very well structured and expertly made. This lively and delicious bubbly is the ideal aperitif for casual or formal affairs. (VINTAGES panel, July 2010)

For the second course Mick did Spicy Shrimp with Mint Sauce… well he brought the ingredients for the Mint sauce and had me make the mint sauce (not that I’m bitter about this or anything!). I was out of Fume Blanc so we had to use a Sauvignon Blanc instead. I went with a 2007 Henri Bourgeois "Les Baronnes" from Sancerre as my pairing. We have reviewed this wine before so I won’t be going into great detail on this one. It was a good pairing with the Spicy Shrimp though a touch shy of being as good a pairing as the Robert Mondavi Fume is.

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