Wednesday was grilled pork tenderloin with paprika/garlic/etc, grilled eggp lant, salad, and the 2014 Olga Raffault Chinon rose. Nice acids, chalk fram ing strawberries, not especially complex but easy to drink. B
Thursday Chinese-styled chicken (poached, shredded, topped with scallions a nd hot oil) and the
2013 Selbach-Oster "Anrecht" Riesling. Full, pretty sweet, this is more lik e an Auslese, big wine. Tasty, slate and lime, but more than I wanted with this dish. For this night, B-Friday we started with cold mussels vinaigrette and the 2009 Lafon "Clos de la Crochette" Macon. Fairly fate, apples and tropical fruit, more CdOr tha n Macon. Tasty but need a little more nerve & verve. B
With marinated steak, squash, and cauliflower, the 2013 IQue Malbec. Sweet blackberry and plum, fruity and simple. C+
Saturday we headed to some friends bearing wine and scallop ceviche, they h ad more wine waiting along with foccacia with tomatoes and some grilled swo rdfish tacos (with pineapple salsa) and rice & beans. Good night of wine (e xcept for 1 victim of TCA)
2010 Louis Michel "Les CLos" Chablis GC Big, a little tight at first, steely acids, vivid citrus notes with accents of flint and chalk, very long. Young but gorgeous. A-2011 Philipp Kuhn Laumersheimer "Vom Kalksteinfels" Riesling Trocken Great with the scallops, yellow pit fruits and ginger, dry but not austere. B+
2001 CVNE Vina Real Rioja Gran Reserva First bottle corked, second lovely. Red fruits and lemon peel, with black t ea and leather, Good length. B+Yesterday Betsy had a concert at Music Mountain, when she returned we had a dinner of penne with sausage and radish pesto, a tomato/cuke/feta/basil sa lad, and green salad. Wine was the 2014 Couly-DutheiL 'les Chanteaux" Chino n Blanc. Nice Chenin, white peach with a little wool, hint of sweetness, ni ce length. B/B+
Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an excellent wine, B a good wine, C drinkable. Anything below C means I wouldn't drink at a p arty where it was only choice.Furthermore, I offer no promises of objectivi ty, accuracy, and certainly not of consistency.