16 May Wednesday Tasting and Live Jazz on Thursday at Chateau La Vin!
It’s looking like it is going to be another great week! Here is some early notice on tomorrows tasting plus Ron and Keith are coming back Thursday night for some live jazz! Wednesday we will be tasting two French wines!
Chateau Massieu Boutet 2005 Bordeaux ($9.99) – From the historic 2005 vintage! This vintage was so good that Wine Spectator gave the entire vintage 99pts. I have not had a bad 2005 Bordeaux and even this ten dollar bottle represents the high quality of the vintage. Nice ruby color, fine notes of ripe fruits. Spicy and unctuous tannins. Best served with grilled steak, poultry and medium ripen cheeses. 50% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Petite Verdot, 10% Malbec.
Picpoul De Pinet Coteaux Du Languedoc ($14.99) – 100% Picpoul, aka Folle Blanche. Pale yellow color with green tints. Fresh and fine aromas of grapefruit and exotic fruit. Lime flavors, with typical focusing acidity, are hallmarks of Picpoul. Our best value, this wine impresses novices and hardened geeks equally. Known as “the Muscadet of the South” in France, this is to the Mediterranean coast of France what Albariño is to northwest Spain. The Picpoul de Pinet HB 2010, Coteaux de Languedoc, produced by the Caves de Pomérols cooperative, reiterates this wine’s status as one of the Great Cheap Wines of the World. Made from white picpoul grapes — also known as folle blanche — and seeing only stainless steel in its production, the wine is exuberantly fresh and spicy, exhilarating in its crisp acidity, seductive in its roasted lemon scents and flavors spiked with lime peel and grapefruit and permeated by hints of dried thyme and tarragon and an exotic note of salt-marsh. The soil in this seaside area of Languedoc, just west of the great lagoon of the Bassin de Thau, where the French coast starts its long curve downward toward Spain, is composed of clay and pebbles and fragments of limestone and fossil shells over marl, a perfect mixture for the grape’s dry delicacy, lightness and stony, sun-drenched nature. Superb with shellfish — especially oysters — but we happily consumed a few glasses with Chinese take-out. 12.5 percent alcohol. Very Good+.”
Live Jazz Thursday Night!
Ron and Keith are bringing their guitars back Thursday night to play some more great Jazz! They will start around 7:30. It will be another great night of wine and Jazz at Chateau La Vin!
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