With Greek-ish turkey meatballs served with tomato sauce and feta over past a, along with broccolini, the 2014 Bartolo Mascarello Barbera d’Alb a. Very floral, ripe red fruits with black olive and herb notes, juicy acid s, good length. If more Barbera tasted like this, I’d drink more Ba rbera! B++
With leftover squab, lentils, haricots verts, and salad, the 1983 Ch. L? ??Evangile. Cassis, a strong ferric note, more tannic structure than I remember from recent bottles. Good, but more of a steak wine than a squab w ine. B/B+
Sunday was mackerel, Brussels sprouts, watercress salad, leftover beans. Wi ne was the 2015 Martin Mullen Trarbacher Huhnerberg Riesling Kabinett Trocken (Mosel). Grap efruit, herbs, citrus zest, ginger. Nice stony finish. Light but with backb one. Good value. B+
No wine Monday with merguez and leftovers, but Tuesday opened the 2016 Kell er Von der Fels with Moroccan chicken stew, cauliflower, and salad. I don’t always see t he value in the upper level Kellers, but this bottling usually shows well, and ‘16 keeps streak up, Hint of CO2, a little funk on nose at firs t. Lemony, grapefruit peel, rocks and smoke. Good length. 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.