Loire wine with a Scallop/Shrimp dinner

Today is the first day of Spring Break.

My wife celebrated by making a Dinner of Tuscan Salad ("Spring Mix" greens with chunks of coarse bread, artichoke herart, mozarella balls, tomatoes, cucumber, and green onions in a vinagrette dressing), couscous with garlic cloves, and Scallop & Shrimp cooked in olive oil, butter, & reisling with cilantro and salt.

Served with a Loire wine, (Pardon the difficulty deciphering the label)

Touraine Sauvignon Les Gourmets

Nice dry tart white with grapefruit and (in my opinion, my wife, who has a better nose than me, disagrees) hints of peach.

Lovely with the dinner.

B/A- pvr (at the sale price of 6.99 US)

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Jim Lovejoy
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Jim Lovejoy wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@nventure.com:

Interestingly enough my wife and I had scallops for dinner as well, we had a 2002 Sancerre from Giton Pere et Fils also a Suvignon Blanc and yes the Grapefruit is a part of the SB portfolio along with some herbaceous notes more likely to be found in the Sancerre. Give yourself a pat on the nose, peach is unlikely in a SB more likely in a Viognier or Rousanne from the Rhone.

I am a bit surprised by SB in the Touraine as I thought most of their whites were from the Chenin Blanc but c'est la vie!

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Joseph Coulter

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