The final course of the evening was a selection of 5 different cheeses. These were paired with a 2008 “Snow Angel” Riesling Ice wine by Angel’s Gate.
The nose on the Riesling was a lovely mix of orange zest, cinnamon hearts, and candied peaches. Tasting the wine, an orange zest flavour dominates the wine but finishes more with a sweet orange pop flavour. The acidity on this wine was much livelier than the Cab Franc Ice Wine and really helped offset the sweetness of the wine. The finish was nice but it didn’t linger around as long as I would have liked. The wine worked with all 5 of the cheeses and made a great finish to the night.
Here is the group rating for the wine –Mick – 87, Mark – 89, Kathy – 87, Amy – 88, Overall – 87.75.
Both Ice wines were purchase directly from the winery and were in the $40-50 price point.
So 4 out 5 of the VQA wines weren’t just drinkable but damn good wines that worked beautifully with the food. I never thought I’d have a night of VQA wines where I would really enjoy 80% of them.
I would like to thank Chris and Jan for a truly great night of food and wine and for all their hard work that made the night so good. We’ll be getting together in August for dinner with them as we all own a bottle or two of the 2007 Robert Mondavi Private Reserve Cabernet and we will be cracking one of them to see how good it is compared to the 2001 version we tried at our last get together.
Cheers!
Mark
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