Saturday Night – We’re Back! - Part 2

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For the main course I made lemon Prosciutto pasta. This is a big time favourite of both Kathy and Amy. Amy was actually so excited about it that she was half through hers when she realized that she hadn’t taken any pictures of it. Thankfully we have had this before and there is a nice picture of it here -

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"Aged French wine... yum!"

I decided that I wanted something French to pair with this and picked a 2000 Chateau Bel-Air-Ouÿ from the Saint Émilion region of Bordeaux.

Nosing the wine you get aromas of licorice, eucalyptus, blueberry and dark berry. Cocoa, hazelnut and blackberry were the main flavors to the wine. The structure of the wine was nice but tannic; this is not a wine I’d sit around and drink on its own but with the pasta it was awesome and both of the ladies mention that they thought it would be great with dark chocolate.

"Are those capers?"

Here is the group rating for the wine -Mick –91, Mark – 89, Kathy – 89, Amy – 89, Overall – 89.5.

There was no listing at the LCBO for this wine, though I’m pretty sure this that is where I got but it had been on my wine rack for a number of years. Doing a quick Internet search it looks like this bottle would be in the $40 CDN range for price.

For dessert I’d picked up a Key Lime meringue cake from LaRocca that looked interesting. It wasn’t as good as I hoped it would be as I found it too sweet but it was fun to try out a new dessert.

Cheers!

Mark