Events...
This is one just gone but you might
like to read about it!
Bordeaux Dinner and Tasting
Saturday May 8th 2010
Venue: 57 Pelham St. London SW7 2NJ
FRESH DUCK’S FOIE GRAS WITH A FRAMBOISE AND BALSAMIC VINEGAR SAUCE
Ch. Clos Haut-Peyraguey
Sauternes 1 er Cru Classé 2003
SEA BASS COOKED IN A SALT CRUST WITH A FENNEL SABAYON
Clos Nardian St. Aubin de Branne
2005
NOISETTES OF VENISON WITH A JUNIPER GIN, APPLE AND ELDERBERRY SAUCE ON A BED OF SPELT
Ch.
Phelan Ségur Cru Bourgeois St. Estèphe 2003
A SELECTION OF CHEESES
Ch. Rausan-Segla 2ème Cru Classé Margaux 2003
BAVAROISE GLACEE WITH WILD CHERRIES AND KIRSCH
Ch. Rabaud-Promis Sauterenes 1er Cru
Classé 2003
CAFÉ - PETITS FOURS
57 Pelham Street is just three minutes walk from South Kensington Station - turn
sharp left on exiting the station, the house is halfway between the station and the
swinging Brompton Cross area with its upmarket shops and restaurants. If you are
coming by car there is unrestricted parking in the area after 6:30 p.m. provided
you do NOT park in the spaces allocated for residents except on Saturdays.
Bacchus & Comus
We are a bit late with kicking off our events at Pelham Street this year, but we
have been engaged in doing some private dinners for specific groups. This time we
thought that we would feature wines from Bordeaux, which we haven’t done for a long
time. In the main, we have decided to concentrate on the 2003 vintage – hailed by
some as lacking in structure due to the very hot growing season and not a vintage
for laying down. Well, this may be true to an extent, but there are certainly some
wines which will go on for a very long time. I do not hold with the view of some
commentators that this is a vintage to be drunk up very early.
Still, the proof of the pudding will be in the eating, (or drinking in this case)
but there will also be the chance to taste some of the sweet white wines of the vintage
which have an excellent reputation. Apart from those which we will be having with
the meal, there will be 5 other reds and 2 dessert wines from the vintage in a pre-dinner
tasting. In addition, there will be the chance to taste the 2009 wines en primeur
from the new vineyards acquired by my daughter, Simonette Blech and her partner Christophe
Mongeard.
The vineyards lie in the Saint-Macaire district, just across the Garonne form Langon
about 50 km. south east of Bordeaux. 2009 is the first serious vintage for them (the
previous year’s wines were sold off in bulk whilst they were upgrading the vines)
which will be marketed under the Ch. Cinc Hilhs label. They will be present at the
dinner to explain the name and their plans for the estate. Their dry red and dry
white are just a simple Bordeaux appellation, but their dessert wine is AOC Saint-Macaire.
