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17
Jun

2001 Pinot Noir from Porter Creek

marriedWineGuy By marriedWineGuy 0 Comments
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2001 Porter Creek, Pinot NoirSo what wine would you drink with the cabbage rolls your mother sent you home with from your visit earlier this week?……………Times up. It was something I had to take a few minutes to consider myself.

Let’s see, you’ve got cooked cabbage, stuffed with a meat and rice mixture, covered with a tomato and carrot concoction. That’s a lot of different flavors.

Let’s try a 2001 Pinot Noir from Porter Creek, a little known vineyard in the Russian River Valley of California. We paid about $32.00 for this wine in 2003 while visiting the winery. We loved it in the tasting room and I’m sad to say that this was our last bottle. I chose the pinot because I didn’t want to drink anything that was actually going to compete with all of these delicious home-cooked flavors. The wine had to be a background to the flavors of the dish. I think this is true of most wine/food pairings; this one especially.

Porter Creek makes such wonderful Pinots. They start with a dark and fruity nose and a first taste of light jam-berry followed by some slight peppery bits and a stunning and long finish at the end. Again this is in contrast with the sharp though delicious cabbage rolls. Now I don’t often challenge the singleGuyChef and I don’t even know if he’s ever made cabbage rolls. But if he does and wants to do a taste test, well, my money’s on mom.

You’re not likely to get your hands on the 2001 vintage of a Porter Creek Pinot Noir, again they’re just a little winery tucked back on a winding road making stellar Pinots. They are currently offering their 2004 vintage at $65.00. That’s a lot of money for a bottle of wine. While there are a lot of overpriced California wines at this price, this isn’t one of them. I haven’t tasted 2004 but I will confidently recommend it to you. Enjoy.

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06
Jun

Roshambo Petite Syrah 2001

marriedWineGuy By marriedWineGuy 0 Comments
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I should tell you that I am an optimistic wine drinker. I expect every bottle to be at least good. And in fact, nowadays, most wines are good. Roshambo's rule #1There is much more constancy in wines than in days of old. This does not mean that outstanding wines are not being created. I think it does mean that a lot of good wines are.

The Roshambo Winery in and around the Russian River Valley in California is a very good winery. I can’t say that they’ve made any outstanding wines, but they have made very good wines. They are an irreverent winery. They host ‘goth-like’ parties. They have wild art displayed on their tasting room walls. They are a bunch of punks and they know it. But, and here is the important part, they have fun making and selling good wines.

Their 2001 Petite Sirah is a very good wine. It’s almost black in the glass. The nose is black-cherry like. Your first sample will hit the tip of your tongue with nice full fruit. Mid-palate are some fairly complex plumy flavors with some light peppery notes. The finish is not especially long and trails off nicely.

I offer this wine because I was tasting it as I was reading singleGuyChef’s Grilled Lamb Chops with Chick Pea and Rosemary Ragout recipe that he posted on June 4, 2007. Why oh why didn’t he invite me over? This is the perfect wine for the dish. Its fruit would go perfectly with the lamb. The Rosemary Ragout would bring out the herbal notes in the wine. Asparagus? Oh yeah. Baby potatoes? Certainly. This would have been a great addition to what looked like a great recipe. And knowing, him…it was a great recipe.

I don’t know if you’ll find a bottle of this in the store, after all, it is six years old. It went for around fifteen dollars when we bought it; don’t pass up a purchase of a Roshambo wine. They’re irreverent and they make good wines too.

We couldn’t find the label for the wine so we’re putting up Roshambo’s rule#1. It shows how this winery feels about drinking wine and is a great rule to go by. Learn more about Roshambo’s other rules.

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