Under the table
Friday, May 24, 2002
Bonny Doon Viognier - 2000?
Restaurant - 'The English Garden'
Very good; marvelous pale gold colour, honeyed, apricot nose with fresh fruit yielding to kernel notes. Fresh fruit - even more apricots - on the palate. Wonderful accompaniment to fresh crab starter which brought out the sweeteness in both food and wine. Rare grilled sea trout with other strong flavours (fennel, olives) switched the wine over to its nuttier characteristics.
Also at the meal (which was very good all round and included the finest sugar snap peas I have ever tasted - from Guardian recommendation) we had glasses of a dessert wine that - and you can what a time we had - I just can't remember. Or even enough of the name for wine-searcher or any other to find. I'll keep looking though - that too would be worth finding again.
Wednesday, May 22, 2002
Juniper Crossing - Margaret River Shiraz 2000
Adnams, 5.99
Very nice; fruity and fresh, much enlivened by food (mushroom wholemeal pasta). Bright colour, medium intensity. Easy access, red fruits.
