PairCraft-Tested Wines
Vouvray "Clos du Bourg" Sec, Huet
really ripe citrus, orange blossom, fresh peeled orange peel, a little pineapple, melon and melon rind, mango, some minerality, a bit of phenolic texture but not tannins. honey
slight graininess
Oxidation: Mild
Vouvray, Champalou
really tasty, apples, green apple, Granny Smith, Welch’s white grape juice, little bits of floral, azalea pungent floral, but not terpanic, more honey and honeysuckle, fresh raw clover honey quality, bit of clean minerality
grape skin texture
Wiemer Semi-Dry Riesling (Finger Lakes)
clean, sweet fresh-cut apple, a llittle white peach, lemon candy quality, inorganic broken rocks, slate quality, slight petrol quality, lots of mineral, texture of big old-format wood, sweet cut chive and parsley, everything really ripe, a little honey underneath
touch of texture
Xarmant Txakoli
canned pears
unripe citrus
herbal
canned pears
unripe citrus
herbal
Xavier Gérard Côte-Rôtie
smoked meat
bacon
plum
violet
kirsh
lavender
incense
pencil shavings
cedar box
pine
Oak: Some
Zelinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese Trocken, Schomann (Mosel)
green apples, lychee nut husk, Marcona almond, dried hay and fresh wheat, a bit of phenolic bitterness
lees influence
Zweigelt, Erdenlied
black raspberries, black currants, black cherries, the red side of black fruits, cocoa powder, fresh-cut green bell peppers, spicy minerality, broken rocks, slight volcanic minerality, touch of wet dog and Brett
crisp