Based on some hints here, I opened a bottle of Jewel 2004 Viognier and
had it with shrimp and scallop crepes, and it worked out very well.
This Viognier I thought was ok; I've had much better (that is, by
themselves, but I've never found a good match for them). The pairing of
Viognier with scallop and shrimp crepes (a cream sauce) however
impressed me. With half a bottle left, I had salmon and lima beans, and
that also was a nice match.

The surprise was today. A quarter bottle was left (I'm the only one
that drinks, and I don't drink much at a time) and dinner tonight was
shrimp with zucchini and tomato sauce.

Hmmm... I could try the viognier... I also had some cabernet (probably
not a good match), gewurtztraiminer (definately not a good match), and a
chard (with tomato?). Ideally I'd have chosen a syrah but I didn't have
one open, and I had plenty of other wines which wanted drinking. So I
thought I'd give the Vioginer a try.

It wasn't a disaster, but it wasn't inspring either. But Katie
mentioned that she was thinking of adding goat cheese. Well that was
the magic touch - the sweetness of the tomato, the softness of the goat
cheese, and the mildness of the shrimp all combined to make a perfect
foil for Viognier. (at least for this $9 bottle of Viognier). So, now
I have a few other ideas on how to use this wine.

My rating on the modified Parker scale, from 1 to 100 (skipping the
range from 50-70 and allowing double points in the range of 85-95) would
be 87.3512, more or less.

Jose
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Arneis may fill the bill--I like it with garlic shrimp......
"Jose" > wrote in message
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> Based on some hints here, I opened a bottle of Jewel 2004 Viognier and
> had it with shrimp and scallop crepes, and it worked out very well.
> This Viognier I thought was ok; I've had much better (that is, by
> themselves, but I've never found a good match for them). The pairing of
> Viognier with scallop and shrimp crepes (a cream sauce) however
> impressed me. With half a bottle left, I had salmon and lima beans, and
> that also was a nice match.
>
> The surprise was today. A quarter bottle was left (I'm the only one
> that drinks, and I don't drink much at a time) and dinner tonight was
> shrimp with zucchini and tomato sauce.
>
> Hmmm... I could try the viognier... I also had some cabernet (probably
> not a good match), gewurtztraiminer (definately not a good match), and a
> chard (with tomato?). Ideally I'd have chosen a syrah but I didn't have
> one open, and I had plenty of other wines which wanted drinking. So I
> thought I'd give the Vioginer a try.
>
> It wasn't a disaster, but it wasn't inspring either. But Katie
> mentioned that she was thinking of adding goat cheese. Well that was
> the magic touch - the sweetness of the tomato, the softness of the goat
> cheese, and the mildness of the shrimp all combined to make a perfect
> foil for Viognier. (at least for this $9 bottle of Viognier). So, now
> I have a few other ideas on how to use this wine.
>
> My rating on the modified Parker scale, from 1 to 100 (skipping the
> range from 50-70 and allowing double points in the range of 85-95) would
> be 87.3512, more or less.
>
> Jose
> --
> Nothing takes longer than a shortcut.
> for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

"Jose" > wrote in message
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>
> My rating on the modified Parker scale, from 1 to 100 (skipping the
> range from 50-70 and allowing double points in the range of 85-95)
would
> be 87.3512, more or less.
>

So dumb. Not only the pretentious extended fractional
rating, but the concept of putting any evaluation at all on a
cheap white wine that had been open a day. Yawn.

pavane

>> My rating on the modified Parker scale, from 1 to 100 (skipping the
>> range from 50-70 and allowing double points in the range of 85-95)
>> would be 87.3512, more or less.
>
> So dumb. Not only the pretentious extended fractional
> rating, but the concept of putting any evaluation at all

It was a joke, son.

Jose
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"pavane" > wrote in message
. ..
>
> "Jose" > wrote in message
> . com...
>>
>> My rating on the modified Parker scale, from 1 to 100 (skipping the
>> range from 50-70 and allowing double points in the range of 85-95)
> would
>> be 87.3512, more or less.
>>
>
> So dumb. Not only the pretentious extended fractional
> rating, but the concept of putting any evaluation at all on a
> cheap white wine that had been open a day. Yawn.
>
> pavane
>
>

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:41:27 GMT
Jose > wrote:

[]
> It wasn't a disaster, but it wasn't inspring either. But Katie
> mentioned that she was thinking of adding goat cheese. Well that was
> the magic touch - the sweetness of the tomato, the softness of the goat
> cheese, and the mildness of the shrimp all combined to make a perfect
> foil for Viognier. (at least for this $9 bottle of Viognier). So, now
> I have a few other ideas on how to use this wine.
>

We used to spend a month of the summer not far from Condrieu,
in the Drome. I don't have a lot of experience with Viognier that
I've liked much outside of the region, but I agree that a nice
chevre is a great match. We used to do the old tomato-chevre
thing regularly:

Summer tomatoes from the market;
A fresh local chevre
bunch of basil
EVO (and lots of it), preferably from that little farm in
the Baronnies
Pepper and good fleur de sel
Cut it all up on a big plate, serve with Baguettes not more than
1/2 hour out of the oven and bottles of nice chilled Condrieu,
on the terrace in the sunshine with a view of the valley.

Heaven!

> My rating on the modified Parker scale, from 1 to 100 (skipping the
> range from 50-70 and allowing double points in the range of 85-95) would
> be 87.3512, more or less.
>

BTW, I suspect Pavane got your joke.

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It sounds wonderful, but...

> EVO (and lots of it), preferably from that little farm in
> the Baronnies

what is EVO?

Jose
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