What’s a better way to celebrate passing the L3 WSET exam than raiding the cellar with other similar minded wine freaks!
A beauty pageant of wines, showing us what “growing old gracefully” means…..
The top three most favourites of the evening were:
1. Merlot 2012, Idle Cellars, Sonoma Valley, USA
2. Rioja Reserva 2016, Izadi, Rioja, Spain
3. Nebukadnesar 2015, 2618/16400, Babylonstoren, S. Africa
A menu to do justice to these beauties:
-Goose liver parfait
–Panzenella (Italian bread salad)
-Pork cheeks in Marsala wine sauce
-Celeriac turnip purée
-Lamb meatballs in lemon cream sauce; Mint raisins pesto, yogurt dip
-Chicken Putanesca
-Cheese platter; Home made rye bread
–Catalan cream & apricots cake
-Almonds tart
–Pumpkin ice cream, chestnut crumble
