Saturday Night – Return of the Spice Weasel – Part 3

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The main course of the evening was a new Chicken Salad recipe Mick got from his Weber cookbook or as he likes to call it the ‘Weber Bible’.  The Chicken Salad recipe had a very Tex-Mex type of feel to it with the grilled corn and spices.  Mick paired this with a 2010 Jean-Marc Brocard Chablis.  I had fun with this wine as the name remind me of Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek Next Generation, so I could resist adding a “Make it so” to Mick when he was pouring out the wine.

 

The nose on the wine was a combination of limestone, pink grapefruit, perfume and lime.  Tasting the wine, pink grapefruit, smoky bacon and caramel were the main flavours to it with a touch of tropical fruit in the background.  The wine was very nice balanced and even though it was a Chablis which means no exposure to oak it had that creaminess you get from an oaked Chardonnay.  If I was tasting this blind, I would have guessed it to be from California rather than France.  It made a very good pairing for the Chicken Salad.

Here is the group rating for the wine - Mick – 89, Mark – 88, Kathy – 86, Amy – 86, Overall – 87.25.

Here is the LCBO information on the wine –

JEAN-MARC BROCARD MONT DE MILIEU CHABLIS 1ER CRU 2010
VINTAGES 265348
750 mL bottle
Price $ 27.95
Made in: Burgundy, France
By: Jean Marc Brocard
Release Date: Apr 27, 2013
Style: Light & Crisp
Wine, White Wine
13.5% Alcohol/Vol.
Varietal: Chardonnay
Sugar Content: 5 g/L
Sweetness Descriptor: XD - Extra Dry

Tasting Note -  A ripe, fresh and moderately exotic mostly yellow fruit nose that exhibits plenty of seaweed and oyster shell influences, both of which can be found on the rich, dense, powerful and quite serious medium weight plus flavors that possess excellent dry extract where the focus is maintain by a firm acid spine on the dry, intense, balanced and beautifully long finish. Sweet spot outstanding. Drink 2016+. Score - 91-93. (Allen Meadows, burghound.com, Oct. 2011)

For dessert Amy picked up a ‘Saturday’ Chocolate Cake (see picture) which was enjoyed by everyone but me.  I skipped dessert as by this time I was at the “Not even a wafer thin mint” stage as I was stuffed to the gills.

Thanks to Mick and Amy for hosting and to Mick for three wonderful dishes.

Cheers!

Mark