Saturday Night – Trying not to Boar anyone – Part 1

This Saturday it was my turn to host our usual Saturday night dinner. The only snag was Mick and I had tickets to go drive a Lamborghini around a track for a few laps at 3:00pm that afternoon. Getting to and from the track plus the time spent at the events meant a good chunk of my afternoon was gone, so keeping the dinner preparations simple was my main goal.

 

Friday I hit Cumbrae’s in Dundas (see link on the right) as I wanted some middle lamb loin for the main course as Mick and Amy were asking why I hadn’t made these for them yet after Kathy was raving about her birthday dinner.  I picked those up but they also had wild boar sausage on display which Kathy and I have had before and really love.  They also had a very nice looking Waldorf styled salad which I also grabbed. 

So the first course was the Waldorf salad and taster size wild boar sausage with Zippy Sauce.  As the Waldorf salad had apples, grapes and pecans I wanted a wine that could handle the sweetness of those ingredients, so I went with a 2009 Schloss Reinhartshausen Kabinett Riesling as my pairing.

 

The nose the wine was mild but complex with aromas of peach, green apple, pear, honey, lilac and a very faint aroma of petrol.  Tasting the wine you will find green apple tempered with pear as the main flavours.  Amy described the wine as being very clean tasting and I believe she was dead on with that assessment as the acidity was fresh without being overbearing and the sweetness was there but thanks to the good acidity didn’t come even remotely close to being cloying; all in all a very well balanced wine.  It was an amazing pairing with the Waldorf salad and a pretty good pairing for the wild boar sausage which I was worried about as I wasn’t sure how the Boar sausage and Riesling would work together.

 

Here is the group rating for the wine - Mick – 90, Mark – 89, Kathy – 89, Amy – 89, Overall – 89.25.

 

Here is the LCBO Information on the wine –

 

SCHLOSS REINHARTSHAUSEN HATTENHEIMER WISSELBRUNNEN RIESLING KABINETT 2009
VINTAGES 114801
750 mL bottle
Price $ 17.95
Made in: Rheingau, Germany
By: Schloss Reinhartshausen
Release Date: Aug 4, 2012
Wine, White Wine
12.5% Alcohol/Vol.
Varietal: Riesling
Sugar Content: 46 g/L
Sweetness Descriptor: M - Medium

 

Tasting Note - A hedonistic sweet-edged riesling from a renowned producer who once tried to grow chardonnay in Germany. Tangerine, apple, jasmine, lime candy drops and a lemon tart delivery. Mouth-wateringly good. Score - 91. (Gordon Stimmell, The Toronto Star, Aug. 22, 2011)

 

This Riesling for $18 was a heck of a deal for the price point as it is exceptionally solid, unfortunately the LCBO is showing 3 bottles left in the entire province so there is no more to be had.  The nice thing is the release date is showing August so I will have to look for the 2010 vintage in the near future.

 

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