Valentines Day

Peter Creasey

Peter Creasey

Peter Creasey
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Having received a gift of chocolates that included a 3 oz solid chocolate center-piece, our Valentine's Day dinner was served well with this dessert -- Chocolate Lava Cake...



Prior to this culinary delight was Italian sausage and sauteed gnocchi and spinach.

All of which was superbly accompanied by Ridge Pagani Ranch Zin '15. What a lush and luscious wine primely situated beautifully in its drinking window. And it will make fine older bones as well. We love Zins like this and chocolate.

How about your Valentine's Day experience?

. . . . . Pete
 
Steaks at home with oven-roasted potatoes and sautéed green beans. Opened with them was another Ridge wine, the 1997 Ridge Monte Bello which is in a beautiful place, velvety in texture with smooth tannins and an abundance of cassis fruit and only the barest hint of American oak.

Mark Lipton
 
Breaded veal rib chops, caesar salad, potatoes roasted in duck fat, served with a 1998 Pegau. This wine is a point. If you have some, I would drink it now rather than later. There is a guy who posts on Wine Berserker who regularly discusses Pegau as a 30-40 year wine. His cellar may be cooler than mine (which does indeed reach as high as 67 degrees in the summer) so calculate accordingly. I don't think the wine is in danger of falling of a cliff. And it really is pretty wonderful now. But one can taste its age. I wouldn't test it with a lot more years.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Breaded veal rib chops, caesar salad, potatoes roasted in duck fat, served with a 1998 Pegau. This wine is a point. If you have some, I would drink it now rather than later. There is a guy who posts on Wine Berserker who regularly discusses Pegau as a 30-40 year wine. His cellar may be cooler than mine (which does indeed reach as high as 67 degrees in the summer) so calculate accordingly. I don't think the wine is in danger of falling of a cliff. And it really is pretty wonderful now. But one can taste its age. I wouldn't test it with a lot more years.
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I’ve consumed the last of mine, but I’ve had at least one bottle of it that was a Brett bomb.

Mark Lipton
 
Grilled chicken breast, Caesar salad, grilled bread and 2018 Louis Michel, Chablis.
And I should say that this is one of my favorite meals.
Best, jim
 
I've still got some Pegau '98 so the discussion is appreciated. And the Cellar Tracker reviews are very favorable. Pegau ranks highly among the wines I like best.

I believe the Brett I have detected in wines has always been the barnyard variety. And it is often not something I find objectionable.

. . . . . . Pete
 
originally posted by Peter Creasey:

I've still got some Pegau '98 so the discussion is appreciated. And the Cellar Tracker reviews are very favorable. Pegau ranks highly among the wines I like best.

I believe the Brett I have detected in wines has always been the barnyard variety. And it is often not something I find objectionable.

. . . . . . Pete
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I am also among the Brett tolerant, though a Herve Souhaut Syrah at a Toledo event many moons ago was into the poopy diaper end of the Brett spectrum and was too much even for me. On reflection, I think I misremembered the flaw with that 98 Pegau — it was mildly corked, a subject of great division among the folks at that gathering (I am particularly TCA sensitive).

Mark Lipton
 
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