Everyday Wining

Seems appropriate that this post follows the previous one as it's the same producer and similar unimaginative label. Another wine that gives very direct guidelines what to eat if you have no idea yourself. We bought this one together with white Fruit de Mer wine for the same reason, the label looked so bad and price moderate (around 7 euros), so it could not be a good wine. But the score was 3.9 so of course we got curious. I wanted to drink something with eggplant-tomato-minced tofu sauce. Ideally I imagined something lighter with that dish but as we did not have any lighter reds at home, it had to do. I discovered again how tedious task is taking nice pictures. I had taken around 20 pictures of the bottle and glasses under different angles and lights when I noticed that my own reflection had been on the bottle all the time. Finally I knelt on the floor to hide myself, took one picture and decided that was acceptable enough. The wine comes from producer called Gourmet Père e...

Boyfriend and I decided to cook scallops one April afternoon (that explains the pussy willow in the vase). We wanted to make something fast for dinner and why not go fancy at the same time. We had already one white Spanish wine in the fridge but it seemed too aromatic and flowery for delicate meat so we picked one wine that – as a name already suggested – should be a better fit. First time I saw that wine in a shop I didn’t even bother scanning it. It looked ridiculous and unimaginative. I guessed it would be rather low, like 3.2. Second time I saw it again I got curious. Surprise-surprise it has been rated as 4.1. Think no more! Entre-deux-Mers (between two seas) is a region in South-West France, east from Bordeaux, between the rivers Garonne from the South and Dordogne from the North. I have had some very good cheap wines from there in Luxembourg but I have never even noticed them in Estonia. The producer is Gourmet Père et Fils that seems to have it's estate in Languedoc-R...