Another Gewurtz...oi why???
I always like to drink proper French wine when I can. Terry is out...dinner with Myles...so I decided to grill some salmon, listen to some music and have a wee dram of wine.
Wine of choice is a beauty...a 2003 Gewurtztraminer but its Grand Cru Schoenenbourg. This my friends is a great bottle of wine. It’s from Huniwihr so it has a pedigree. Bloody hell it is a Grand Cru so it should be good.
My great grandfather was from Alsace, and I guess he was one step ahead of the Prussians during the Franco Prussian War. Off to Montreal then Toledo then to Windsor. My Grandmother..Maude Henrietta LaPlante..married one Orville Small. She was a firecracker who taught me alot about food, getting thru tough times and general stuff a Grandmother is for. Funny, she couldn’t cook but knew how to get fresh good produce. Going to the market with her was a trip.
Music is/was Alison Krause. One was her latest solo album and now is her album with Robert Plant (ex of Led Zepplin). Really good music. I usually cannot stand country but this stuff is really excellent.
Dinner was grilled salmon steaks with some grilled polenta with a mozzarella topping. All in all not bad.
The wine is wonderful. It takes me to a wonderful place. It makes me see visions of a young Sophia Loren stomping grapes in a classic vineyard. Ok off by miles, and a few countries, but the visual is great.
Visually, the wine is light gold, sparkly and just beautiful. Legs, this wine has legs like Condi Rice..just beautiful. The seem to go on forever.
The nose exudes a class sweetness, with all the tropical fruit you can handle. I get some petrol and wet stone. Wonderful, complex and just wow!!!!
The taste is out of this world. Round sweet and good. Though sweet, there is a nice balance of acid and a wee dollop of alcohol...13.5%..this is no lightweight. Ever once in a while I get the elusive petrol, but I think the exotic fruit and spice is much better.
With food this is a winner. Sweet with food...Yes sir!!! It has a great balance of acid and it managed to fight off and clear the salmon oil. It has unctuousness and just works so well with food. Man this is good!!!
This wine goes with my idea that the French still make the best wine in the world and if they avoid the fruit forward onslaught we will all have better lives.
