TN: Prosecco and Chablis
On Jun 4, 12:36�pm, DaleW > wrote:
> Tuesday Betsy and I both had full days, I suggested crock pot, but we
> still had niece and nephew who are pesce-vegetarians with us. So found
> a recipe for "Athenian shrimp", where you make a tomato sauce and then
> add shrimp and feta at end (and we added white beans). With a "Greek
> salad", and the �2007 Bisson Prosecco del Colli Trevigiani. A regular
> cork, this is just lightly petillant. Apples and citrus fruit,
> mineral, more rocky than fruity. Nice wine. B+/B
>
> Sister-in-law brought back lobsters as thanks for watching kids, so we
> had steamed lobsters, a quinoa/bean salad, and the 2002 Domaine Fevre
> "Fourchaume - Vignoble de Vaulorent" Chablis 1er last night. In drink
> up queue because lots of reports of PremOx in this bottling, but this
> was doing quite well, no signs of age at all, a rather fleshy and full
> bodied Chablis. Lemon, apple, just �a hint of flowers and vanilla..
> Long finish. Stony, not sure I'd have picked as Chablis blind, seems
> like a leaner Puligny. Excellent in any case. A-
>
> Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an excellent
> wine, B a good wine, C mediocre. Anything below C means I wouldn't
> drink at a party where it was only choice. Furthermore, I offer no
> promises of objectivity, accuracy, and certainly not of consistency.�
I'm drinking a glass of the 2006 of the same wine as I write this.
Plenty of limestone minerality and lot's of lemony citrus. Quite lean
but very good Chablis.
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