Mick and Amy were hosting this past Saturday night’s dinner and Chris and Jan joined us as well. Mick had two new courses and three new wines for us to try. As an extra bonus, Chris and Jan brought dessert and an ice wine to go with it, so we have four wines to review in this Blog article today.
The first course was Tuna Crostini that was paired with a 2009 Simon Alexandre Chateauneuf-du-Pape.
The wine was a concern to me when I first opened it as it had a strong alcohol and chemical aroma to it and when I poured it out the colour was more golden than I was expecting. As the wine sat for a bit and opened up, the alcohol aroma was still there but aromas of peat, pineapple, honeysuckle and burnt marshmallow developed. Tasting the wine flavours of vanilla bean, grapefruit and oak were to be found. The wine had a slight oiliness to it, with a large mouth-feel and was quite hot. It also had a not so nice bite to it on the finish. I really wasn’t a fan of the wine on its own but it did work well as a pairing for the tuna crostini.
Here is the group rating for the wine - Mick – 86, Mark – 83, Kathy – 84, Amy – 85, Overall – 84.5.
Bonus Rating – Chris – 83, Jan – 83.
I couldn’t find an LCBO listing for this wine but Mick said it was about $35 a bottle. At $35 a bottle there are much better white wines out there that I would go with instead. It was fun to try something new though and we haven’t done much white Chateauneuf-du-Pape so that was an interesting change up.
The Tuna Crostini course was really good. I’m not usually a huge fan of Tuna as I can take it or leave it but I really liked this course and lovely fresh flavours of it.
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