Aperitif:
This 2007 is showing very well at the moment with lovely pure citric fruit, especially grapefruit – all the precision and purity that is typical of the 2007 vintage.
Whites:
2009 Chenin Blanc, Anjou Blanc
Naturally still youthful with the weight you would expect of 2009 with floral and grapefruit notes. Closed with a screwcap.
2008 Les Terrasses, Anjou Blanc
Philippe's top dry white from vines on terraces created by Gaston Lenôtre in the early 1990s. Very clean with brilliant minerality.
Served with goats cheese and asparagus salad with crouton
Philippe is happy to admit that the schisteous terroir of La Roulerie is not ideally suited to making red wine. Indeed he would rather concentrate on the whites but his brother, Thierry of Domaine des Roches Neuves, urges him to continue to make red as well. In truth the Roulerie reds are pleasant and well made but they are ones to drink young, enjoy young and not to be taken particularly seriously.
Reds:
2009 Cabernet Franc, Anjou Rouge 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, Anjou Rouge
2008 Cabernet Franc, Anjou Rouge
Served with roast rib eye beef with new potatoes, summer vegetables and red wine sauce
Sweet:
1990 Cuvée Louis, Coteaux du Layon Chaume, Château de la Roulerie,
The definite star of the evening a lovely sweet wine made by Dominique Jadeau – the last vintage he made before he sold Roulerie to Lenôtre. Medium gold – the 1990s took on colour very early – with rich dried apricot and peachy fruit and the typical Loire acidity that stops these rich wines being cloying. Very long flavour too. Really a wine to enjoy by itself instead of a dessert or after the end of the meal.
Served with apple meringue pie with pecan ice cream
2 comments:
Big Roulerie fan here of course. Jim, do you think the CB is meant for the minimum cellaring?
Bob Alberta.
I adore that man. He has been a very big help to restaurant owner ever since. I wish I can be like him.
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