Live Qualitarian: Eat Well
Tasting Notes for bottles of wine
from Alain de la Treille Smell: mineral, pear, dust & ice (or maybe it’s springtime in Summit County, Colorado, when the sides of the roads look like ice weeds). Medium to light body, gold color. Acidity: bright and medium high. Taste: cold sliced pear with a squeeze of meyer
This AOC has become a new favorite for us, and so we ordered a half dozen from the Garagiste. Here’s our first taste: Look: straw, viscosity medium Smell: pear, one of us said orange and another lemon, so Meyer Lemon is our second smell, and for non-fruit: butter, leaves, not
La Tonnelle, a winery direct wine, as they say and discount if you buy six from Total Wine. We paid less than $15 before the discount. Tasting Notes Look: (hue, intensity and thickness:) dark ruby, thick Smell: (try for 3 fruit, 3 other, (earth or oak)) a) plum, sweet strawberries,
La Fleur Poitou An relatively inexpensive Bordeaux – right bank, St. Emilion – from Total $22. It’s from vintage 2018, so not really old enough to drink. Here’s our first taste: Look: ruby medium, viscosity medium; Smell: blackberries, sweet even if not ripe, and a little tart, raspberries, smoke, gravel;
Smell: Taste: Tasting a Burgundy with Ham & Eggs – April 2022 – This Faiveley 2019 Burgundy (Pinot Noir) is one of Susan’s Fine Wines’ Wine Club wine of the month. We’ve selected it for a dinner of the French style ham and cheese sandwich, dipped in beaten egg
Opening night of the Winter Olympic Games 2010, and we’re dog sitting for friends with a taste for wine. And we open the 2005 Atrea Old Soul Red and it was pow of red fruit flavor. Zin-ish but not one dimensional, and it went well with the over-done chocolate pastry