Last night, we engaged Andrew in preparing a pizza dinner wherein we each assembled two small pizzas for ourselves, a game that Andrew greatly enjoyed. To go with our pizza, I opened a bottle of:
2007 Iché "Les Heretiques" VdP nose: cherryish fruit, stony minerality palate: simple fruit, decent acidity, medium-light body, mild tannins
Not a complex wine by any stretch, but a fine pizza wine in a CdR-ish sorta vein (without the gamey qualities I prize in CdR).
Tonight, with a dinner of leftover chicken eaten after Jean and I returned from running review sessions for our classes (at different times -- tag-team parenting) I opened:
2007 JP Brun Beaujolais Blanc nose: initially, malolactic butter, later turning more mineral and pineapply palate: initially soft, turning mineral and acid, with lemon and pineapple fruit and a lightly creamy finish
Louis/Dressner imports, who brought in both these bottles, has become over the past few years our principal source of QPR imports. The Les Heretiques sold for less than $10 and the Brun for about $12 (during the CSW moving sale) and both wines punched well above their weight, to employ one of Dale's metaphors.
Mark Lipton