An Island Favourite
Very cold today and I just don’t like it at all. But I/we had a very wonderful wine which is an endangered species. It’s the 2002 Ladies from Pelee Island. There are a few bottles left and we bought a few and have 1 or 2 left.
Of course with the Ladies it allowed me to sing a wonderful song from my youth to Terry.....Lady by Styx. It’s funny but we watched Styx and Loverboy on New Years Eve. They played in Niagara and were actually ok, but looked well...old. Loverboy well just looked like ...me. Well, Dennis DeYoung sang Lady to his wife of like 30 years...oi... man am I getting old, but after Argentinian champagne some other wine and while drinking the Mastronardi bubbly (very nice btw) it just seemed great. It was cold there but it was way better than Dick Clark.
Well, back to the wine. A Sauvignon Blanc is a classic wine and has the cajones to age. This one is probably on life support, but is still quite alive! Pulling the cork gave me a chill but all was good.
We had it with some roast chicken. As I got 2 for 1 we cooked up 2. One was done with herbes de provence and the other with cajun spice. I perched it on some veggies (they were past their prime). Add a bucket of grapeseed oil (very good for you btw) 2 martinis et voila dinner. The Ladies were very nice with the chicken. They held up to the spice and were just soooo nice.
I get the cut grass but not extremely freshly cut, maybe a couple of hours cut and some nice fruity tones, light stone fruit with maybe some exotics. Very very nice and smooth.
Taste-wise it is very smooth. So different from the New Zealand variety. Nice refined, well maybe 5 years can mellow someone out. The wine just engulfed my pallet. I get the grass, the fruit but it’s not upfront....it’s just there. So very nice. I haven’t drank alot of Bordeaux Sauv Blancs and those I have had were a very long time ago and were ok. I bet there are some good ones and I may just go find them. This is a mature wine, similar to what I get from a good Burgundian Chardonnay. It’s too bad that there is so little left.
I really enjoyed this wine and will savour the last bottle or may just go buy more!
