Adventures in Northwest Wine and Food
For me, food and wine is a
true sensory experience. My husband & I love to cook for our friends and we are always
testing out new recipes on them. With the addition of wine, food can take on a whole
new dimension. I have immersed myself, as much as my day job allows, into wine.
Specifically wine from the Pacific Northwest.As a Washington State native, I grew up with the fresh seafood and produce native to the area. I look forward to local strawberries in the spring & sweet corn in late summer. As well as fresh caught Dungeness Crab out of Puget Sound and the flavorful beef produced by local farmers. The Northwest offers an abundance of wonderful ingredients to work with.
This site is dedicated to the Food & Wine of the Pacific Northwest. Please join me as I explore all it has to offer!
My first thought when I read the theme was brownies. To me, brownies are one of the best desserts. Dense,
chewy, dark chocolate brownies.
The brownie recipe out of the
new Thomas Keller cookbook, Ad Hoc, fit the bill nicely. I mean how can you go wrong with a brownie
recipe that calls for 3 sticks of butter?!
I paired these rich squares of goodness with a dessert wine from Wedge Mountain Winery. Their Roses & Rubies is a raspberry dessert wine that is a very unique. It clocks in at 18% alcohol, which is acheived through natural fermentation without the addition of brandy or spirits. This wine screams raspberry the moment you pop the cork. The aroma is intoxicating. This worked so perfectly with the brownies. Not so cloyingly sweet, with this great tartness on the back palate that balanced the bittersweet chocolate in the brownies. This is a definite winner in my book.
The 2006 Corella is a Super Tuscan blend of 70% Sangiovese,
25% Cabernet Sauvignon & 5% Merlot. On the nose it was very clean with vanilla notes and a slight earth hit.
Medium bodied and garnet in color. I tasted cherries and hints of smoke with a slight acidity and earthiness
on the finish. This wine was an easy drinker on it's own, but it paired great with our dinner of beet
salad with chevre & pistachios and chicken parmesan.
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So I felt it only fitting to open up my bottle in celebration
this weekend. This cab is sourced from 9 different vineyards in the Columbia Valley with 31%
coming from Champoux vineyards. It is aged 22 months in 50% new French and American oak and registers
in a 14.6% alcohol.
We popped and poured this with a couple of our friends. On the nose - floral, wet cement, slight earthiness, dark berries and smoke. Taste notes - tart cherries, raspberry, earth. Slight acid, but very smooth. It may have smoothed out more after an hour or two, but frankly it didn't last that long between the 4 of us. I good 10-15 second finish on this wine. The concensus of the group was that this was a well deserve honor for a wonderful wine.
Fidelitas has embraced the social media scene as well. Both winemaker @charliehoppes as well as the wineclub concierge @FidelitasJess are on Twitter. Give them a follow!
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