Regis and Natalie and their son Antoine(?) make the best Pouilly-Fume I have ever had the pleasure of tasting. It is Sauvignon Blanc perfection in the glass. Clean, bright acidity with kaffir lime and an ever so slight hint of flint. Absolutely brilliant. Regis is this charismatic guy and has a fire in his eyes. Denis Jamain of Domaine de Reuilly joined us for dinner and then things got lively. Denis brought out some of his fossils from his property and that made Regis get his fossils he retrieved from the Loire river, so the two gentleman had a fossil contest. It was snowing pretty heavily and we had this dirt road going down this long hill as we drove away from the house which caused us to slide into the grass. Little did we know that we were but ten feet away from dropping in the Loire river. This was a fun night.
Dinner:
Thick vegetable soup
Carrot salad
Tabouli
Celery Root Salad (like coleslaw) (this went great with the wine)
Potato Salad
Oysters from the Atlantic
Roast Beef, Fried Chicken, and Pork Tray
Groundcherries
Lots of cheese and chocolate for dessert
Wines we tasted with dinner:
2008 Regis Minet Pouilly-Fume
1996 Regis Minet Pouilly-Fume-intense stone fruit aromas
1994 Regis Minet Pouilly-Fume-Amazing nose, unbelievable that a 16 year old Sauvignon Blanc still had acidity to it. A testament to this wine.
2006 Reverdy Sancerre Rouge
2008 Minet Late Harvest Sauvignon Blanc
The spread
The soup
The fossils from the Loire
Fossils from Kimmeridgian soil
Good times
The evidence
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