On the Road with the Grape Guy
Report from - Wine Writers' Circle Annual Dinner 2011 ... January 24, 2011
13 Feb 2011- Details
- Category: On the Road with the Grape Guy
The mystery continues ... I have long wondered why wine writers bring the bottles they do to a dinner filled with other wine writers. Tonight was our annual dinner, this year held at Tutti Matti (an Italian restaurant at 364 Adelaide Street West). Although food was delicious and my dinner included salad (baby spinach with bufala mozerella, pine nuts, dried balsamic figs, sliced prosciutto, grilled seasonal fruit and saba vinaigrette); main (slow roasted beef short ribs, italian beer, oranges, rosemary and garlic with soft polenta and roasted root vegetables) and dessert (tiramisu - maybe the best I have ever had), it is the wine that always intrigues me. A fellow by the name of Martin and I got into a discussion about that very thing and neither of us could explain to the others satisfaction why bottles of Le Vieux Pin (B.C.) were sitting beside Chateau Pipeau flanked by a Brunello di Montalcino which sat between a '99 Cilento and Hillebrand with some Jankris and Errazurriz Ovalle standing behind them. Why a bottle of Isole e Olena found its way beside a Perrin & Fils, or how a rare bottle of Kruger Rumpf Pittersberg could be at the same table as a run of the mill Aussie Shiraz like The Lackey Shiraz. The head stratching will continue, but here are some notes about the wines that found their way into my glass ...
The Best Wines of the Night ... (Find out what were the best wines and what were the duds at dinner)
