Sunday dinner was a warm Asian chicken salad (with red cabbage &
peanut sauce) accompanied by the 2006 Hexamer "Quarzit" Riesling QbA
(Nahe). Rather broad texture, with good underlying acidity. Flavors of
ripe summer peaches accented by a good squirt of lime, a bit of chalky
minerality. Sweet but balanced. Develops a more floral character
overnight. Not especially long. A good QbA, but as price crosses $15
not quite the great value of some past vintages. B+/B

Monday was Cincinnati style chili (5 way). This recipe (apparently
concocted by Greek immigrants) doesn't have any heat, the spices are
mostly cinnamon, allspice, and chili powder. Reasonably wine friendly,
so I just went with what I felt like opening, the 2005 Robert
Chevillion Bourgogne Rouge. Initially more red fruit oriented, bright
red cherry base accented by red currant and earth. With time this
filled out and got darker, black cherries with some cocoa. This is a
good inexpensive poster child for the vintage- quite structured for a
Bourgogne, yet with some outstanding fruit. You feel there's a little
hiding in reserve, a Bourgogne that could use a few years. The tannins
are ripe and fine enough to make this easy to drink now, but I think
3-5 years would make even better. B++

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.