roast dishes

Low key and roast meaty on the nose with dense dark cherry fruit and an aromatic, rosewood top note, a little tarry. Delicious style of wine, still youthful and rambunctious, yet with succulent acids and dense, yet fresh...

This opens slowly and cautiously with notes of pollen, licorice, and roasted ligonberry fruit. While subtle this is very complex with a faintly sweet edge to the medicinal herb notes and lovely insinuations of cigarette...

A little hot on the nose with lots of sweet fruit, cola, a touch of citrus, roast meat and oak. This is a big, powerful style of Pinot with a chewy texture and dark, muscular fruit, there are nice black spice tones to...

Rather oaky on the nose with candied medicinal tones and notes of roasted root vegetables that are earthy and sweet. This pulls itself together well adding a dried porcini tone and notes of cigar smoke. Moderately rich...

A bit funky with plenty of oak on the nose and a strong top note of peppery roast beef. There’s a nice core of gently leafy dark berry fruit lurking under the more assertive elements of the bouquet. This is fairly...

Lightly sweet and smoky with notes of smoked meats, roasted herbs, and minerals framing the dark, roasted fruit. The wood is a bit raw on the nose and gives this a hard, aggressive edge. Nice cherry fruit on the palate...

so I pull a 3 bone prime rib out of the oven at around 2pm on a sunny November weekday afternoon. don't know why I decided to make it, seemed like the right thing to do at the time. the roast was, in a word... well, two...