What a treat for a Monday night. KT made one of our favorite dishes, the now infamous green chile pork stew, coupled with mashed spuds, steamed-to-perfection broccoli and a lovely salad to follow. We were blessed with a visit from the just-back-from Italy Chanel, who regaled us with delightful stories of Rome and Naples and brought a delightful little bottle of Touraine Sauvignon Blanc from Domaine Vincent Ricard.
I hastily opened that chilled offering and was delighted to find a light bodied, herbal wine that danced daintily on the palette. I quickly sliced up some aged dutch goat cheese and soppresata salami and the wonders of the chalky hills of the Loire came swimming up in my mouth, calling back the fall of '09 when the AP and I spent a hall of fame afternoon in the hilltop town of Sancerre, sitting in an outdoor cafe bedazzled with assorted fresh goat cheese offerings and a pitcher of local sancerre blanc all the while surrounding by an expansive view of acres of soon to be harvested minerally, herbal gooseberry, grassy, cat pee, mown lawn grape goodness. One of the finest wine/food moments in my life.
Then on to dinner and I offered up a 2000 Produttori Barbaresco from the single vineyard of Moccagatta. This wine has enough tannins to go longer, if need be, but tasted just fine right now. Earthy and balanced with flavors of dark red berries and earth and plums and earth, it was not the best match for the spicy pork stew but it wasn't bad. I've read that the Moccagatta vineyard is one of the highest in Barbaresco and is known for its earthy power. Amen to that. And the good news: there's another bottle of it for another day!
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