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- Recipe needed that will make Pinot Noir sing & do somersaults
I need a recommendation that will make a Pinot Noir based dinner party memorable.
The Wines for the main course to be shared amongst 6 people will be:
2000 Felton Road Block 3 (NZ)
2005 Maysara Delara (Oregon)
A roast duck perhaps?
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1135 - Reply by dmcker, Nov 4.
Roast duck works well, and if you add a fruited sauce more cherries than oranges, of course. I also like pinot with pheasant and grouse, turkey and roast chicken, so poultry is generically good. Smoked fish and various forms of salmon, meats and dairy (from airdried beef to gratined potatoes) all work, but I'm not totally up on the Felton Road and Maysara styles of pinot. How would you describe them?
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1738 - Reply by Gregory Dal Piaz, Nov 4.
Roast Duck is great with Pinot.
I like the combination of mushroom and filet, ie beef wellingtonesque dishes
I would characterize the styles as Burgundian for the Felton Road and very much what Oregon is hoping for with the Maysara. So one wine is rather bright and precise while the other is earthier, a bit more obviously oaky and certainly a little denser.
Epoisses can make Pinot explode.
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Don't know how adventurous you wish to get (if that's really the right word), but I just remembered some excellent meals with pinot noir I've had based around rabbit, both in Switzerland and along the Russian River in Sonoma. And besides the game birds I allude to above, another type of game that can work well with the wine is venison. Dressing it with a berries-based sauce and accompanying it with a well made large pinot can be quite the decadent indulgence....
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06 - Reply by vks, Nov 5.
I can recommend many different dishes from my home country. The question is how well will the new taste be accepted.
The easiest is Smoked breast of duck prepaired on grill and served with backed young cheese. I don't know about the availability of the products.
Then another interesting combination is a black squid risotto with prosciutto and pramigiano.
For something stronger game meat allways works for me; ie. Wild boar in juniper sauce.
Hope it helped.
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Some good food you're talking about, vks! Even if I don't like the taste of gin, I do like juniper berries in sauces dressing game. The smoked duck breast sounds like it'd be a good match, even if there's no shop where I live that would have it, so it'd have to be home made. Hopefully this might be different in Charles Emilio's locale. And though I've had squid ink risotto and paella many times in Italy and Spain and like those dishes very much, I wouldn't have thought of them with pinot noir. The parmesan and prosciutto could meld the dish into a match worth at least trying.... :-)
