Lentils du Puy, great wine, friends and more
As you can read from this well-aged article, cooking sausage in white wine makes them a great winter meal with a bowl of lentils cooked with bacon. Click on the recipe’s image to get more information.
Wine Notes
A Médoc from 2009, purchased from the Garagiste – our daily email correspondent. About $22 shipped to us, the Saint Saturnin is French from Bordeaux. It is left bank, but by a rebel winemaker who sells for a low price, sometimes at Auchan, and so is primarily Merlot, instead of Cabernet Sauvignon forward, but is a mix of the two and Cabernet Franc. No oak. Smell of cherry coke, smoke, with a garnet color and medium body. Very creamy taste.
The Bread Pudding – Dessert
Recipe:
1 cup milk
1 T butter
vanilla bean
2 T of sugar
1 egg, beaten
3 ramekins of bread cubes
Warm all but egg and bread until they are combined, then cool slightly so you can add the egg and not cook it. Then pour over the bread cubes and bake in a 350degree oven for about 45 minutes.
Feb 10 Dinner
For this evening, our friend Nan made the main dish – these delicious lentils – but look to a June 2024 entry where I make this meal.
Notes on the wine:
According to Jancis Robinson, this wine is:
Ch St-Saturnin 2009 Médoc 16.5 Drink 2015-25
First cuve: Rich yet perfumed nose – less exotic and sweet than the 2005. Very sultry and almost Californian in its ripeness. Amazingly sweet and luscious, with masses of alcohol. Quite a hot finish. Very spicy.
Second cuve: Gentle and fragrant, very sweet but with more acidity than the first sample and perhaps a little more structure. Fine and firm.
