Jan and Chris were going to make dessert to go with the wine they’d brought but Chris had a small chocolate mishap while making the dessert so they brought a very nice selection of Lindt Chocolate to go with the wine. I had some Raspberry coulis left from last week and decide to whip another batch of the same desserts we had last week.
The desserts were paired with a bottle of 2010 Tawse Cabernet Franc Ice Wine.
The nose on the wine was nice with ripe strawberries and some eucalyptus in the background. Tasting it you get a mix between candy apple and cherry. I liked the wine but it came across cloying at time as it was quite sweet and didn’t seem to have enough acidity to offset the sweetness properly. It was however a good pairing with both the raspberry dessert and all of the chocolate which was impressive as those were two completely different flavours.
Here is the group rating for the wine –Mick* – 87, Mark – 86, Kathy – 87, Amy – 89, Overall – 87.25.
I couldn’t find any LCBO listing for this as I suspect that Chris and Jan picked this up at the winery directly. As Jan reads the Blog on a regular basis, hopefully she will be nice enough to add a price for it in the comments section (hint, hint).
This wasn’t the fanciest of dinners I’ve ever done but it was nice to sit around and casually enjoy some food and wine with some very good company.
Cheers!
Mark
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