Our wines over the weekend
On Friday with lentils, a Domaine Bart “Les Champs Salomon” Marsannay 2006. Big, worked, chocolaty oak. A little too extracted and a touch of greenness on the palate. Not my style. Poured my last glass into the marinade for dinner the next night.
Last night, a Domaine Stirn Schlossberg Grand Cru Riesling 2006 with chou farci:
Worked well with the chou, particularly the spices I added and the beef reduction.
Then with braised paleron, a Hubert Lignier Clos de la Roche 2004. Rich, serious, powerful nose of leather, oak, mulberry, tobacco, cardamom. Extremely dark, looks like a shiraz. The palate is quite powerful, even forceful. The dryness of the finish gives it away as a 2004 but it isn’t green like so many other 2004s. Not a wine of pleasure like so many of Lignier’s other wines but an excellent effort for the vintage.
