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Chateau Musar Wines

I notice in this group that the topics are mainly about wine even though it is aptly named alt.food.wine. I hope that you will enjoy reading my account below.

I trust you will find the 7 course dinner I went to on Wednesday night interesting, we had:

Amuse Gueule with Chateau Musar Rose 2001

Truffle and White chocolate risotto (delicious!!!)

Roast Scallops Salad with Baby Leeks, Hazelnut Emulsion & Pickled Mushrooms with Chateau Musar White 1999

Smoked Foie Gras with Onion Cassanade & Chicken jus with 2003 Chateau Musar and 2001 Hochar

Roast Lamb, Chopped Wilted Spinach, White Bean & Chirozo Stew with

1991 Chateau Musar 1993 and Chateau Musar Cuvee Rouge

Mrs. Kirkham's Lancashire, Gorwydd Caerphilly & Swaledale Ewes Cheeses with Chateau Musar 1999 and 2000 Chateau Musar.

No pudding - just coffee, tea, tisanes and petit fours of black chocolate.

It was a great meal at a great restaurant, Adlards, Norwich, (England) and even though I don't enjoy red wine, I did sip the red ones and then changed back to Chateau Musar White.

Do you like the menu? and do you think the wine compliments the food?

Judith

Reply to
judith.lea99
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The food may, indeed, be saying nice things about the wines, but you probably mean complement.

Musar wines can be very good or pretty boring, depending on the vintage and how the bottles have been kept. Sounds like a fine dinner.

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ksternberg1

I know what I meant.

Interesting, it appears that you have; or have had experience of Chateau Musar? We keep all our wine in the cellar, where else! Do you have a particular vintage that you enjoyed and if so, would it still be at its best?

We still have some 1979 left and after 10 bottles of a case, all of the wine was of the same standard and according to our guests, superb.

I'm glad you liked the dinner, and thank you for replying.

Judith

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judith.lea99

I find these wines to very variable from year to year, not variable the way a wine should be (reflecting the vintage's characteristics), but variable in quality. Even within a vintage, you find good bottles and bad ones. The good ones are usually very good, but it is a little game of chance with Musar.

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Mike Tommasi

Judith, never had Musar, I am in USA-North Carolina but the food sounds GREAT!!!!

Never considered using a white chocolate Risoto in the begining of meal...sounds really good. In fact never had one. We just recently started making Risoto here as we finally have a source for some.

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Richard Neidich

Thank you Mike, you have made me think about whether I should continue to buy Musar young and put it down. I have given a friend a bottle of

1979 recently and she is going to open it for a special occasion, I do hope she is not disappointed.

Judith

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judith.lea99

Hi Richard, thank you, I agree the food was great!!

I am going to ask the Chef if he will give me the recipe, would you like me to post it here if he agrees?

Judith

Reply to
judith.lea99

Yes, Please do. Thank you.

I >> Judith, never had Musar, I am in USA-North Carolina but the food sounds >> GREAT!!!!

Reply to
Richard Neidich

I'd say "yes" if you like it, buy it and lay it down. 1999 was a great vintage and is still widely available. But I wouldn't give it as a present unless I knew the other person liked the wine. It tends to divide opinion.

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Steve Slatcher

St. Andrew's, he will thoroughly enjoy ghat part of the U.K. St. Andrew's also has a great golf course, a championship one. As you say painful, the fees will set you back a bit but Scotland is a beautiful part of the UK and you never know, he might just meet a Princess there!

Judith

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judith.lea99
Reply to
Steve Slatcher

"Judith Lea" wrote ......

Wash your mouth out lassie

St Andrews *is* the Home of Golf, where the game evolved and where the spirit and traditions of golf date back over 600 years.

One doesn't visit St Andrews - one makes a pilgrimage - to hell with the cost. (Those bloody Americans will only spend their greenbacks on wine!!!)

Remember, you are conversing with mere whippersnapper colonialists who actually believe that *our* game is played by boys calling themselves "Tiger", in man-made gardens called Augusta National

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st.helier

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