Tasting Wine Pairing June

Question 1

Hors d’Oeuvres Pairing

Answer 1

Varietal: “Blended Sparkling Wine”
Type of Sparkling: Champagne
Producer: Charles Heidsieck
Country: France
Region: Champagne
Vintage: NV
Grape: 40% Pinot Noir, 40% Chardonnay and 20% Meunier
Dosage: Brut
ABV: 12%
Glass: Tulip

Question 2

1st Course Pairing

Answer 2

Varietal: Riesling
Producer: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium
(Free-drick Will-helm Gim-nah-zee-um)
Country: Germany
Region: Mosel (Moh-zel)
Designation: Schiefer (She-faw)
(In wine designations, “Vom Schiefer” refers to wines grown on schistose soils, which are soils composed of slate and other metamorphic rocks.)
Vintage: 2021
Grape: 100% Riesling
ABV: 12%
Glass: AP
Pour: 3oz

Wine notes:

Tart tangerine on the nose is accented by bolder tones of slate and salt in this refined white. While dry in style, ripe grapefruit and nectarine.

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2nd Course Pairing

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3rd Course Pairing

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4th Course

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Question 6

Dessert

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Varietal: Chenin Blanc
- (Shen-nin Blonk)
Producer: Domaine Pichot
- (Pee-shoh)
Vineyard: Domaine Le Peu de la Moriette
- (Le Poo de la Moore-yet)
Country: France
Region: Loire Valley
- (Lew-wahrr)
AOC: Vouvray
- (voo-vway)
Vintage: 2009
Grape: 100% Chenin Blanc
ABV: 12%
Glass: AP

       A very perfumed nose, with very fresh acidity given the rich texture of the wine. Some pineapple and sugary apple, crystallized ginger and sweet Meyer lemon, too. Candied lemon slices, like lemonade, very citric. A finish of apple skin and cloves and pink grapefruit