Wine - Chateau Bouscasse - Pacherenc du Vic Bilh Brumaire (November) 1999
Today after dinner, raayat and I cracked open a dessert wine to go with a very basic English goat cheese we picked up on a whim yesterday. So here's our thoughts:
Chateau Bouscasse - Pacherenc du Vic Bilh Brumaire (November) 1999
From the web: Harvested in November, and matured for two years in oak barriques, the extra-ripe, sugar-concentrated petit manseng grapes have produced a hugely elegant and complex sweet wine, full of yellow jammy fruit, apricot and honey.
Background: This is one of the wines we picked up from City Beverage last weekend. One of the reasons we picked it is because brumaire is the name the new government of the French Revolution gave November in 1794 in their effort to wipe the influence of the church out of the French social conciousness (it didn't work well for many of the same reasons the Russian attempt in the 1920s didn't work either. You think someone would have learned. . .). This is one of the wines from the southwest of France near the Pyranees just south of the River Ardour in a village called Maumusson. (page 113 in The World Atlas of Wine). This is a region better known for its reds than whites.
Our thoughts: It's a deep orangey-yellow in the glass with a very pronounced edge. Not much to the smell and the taste is sweet and clear. . .clover honey with just the slightest taste of spice (cinnamon maybe?). Very drinkable it went well with the goat's cheese though we both agreed something salty or herby would have been a better match. Still very tasty and would have worked well as either an apperitif or a digestif.
Chateau Bouscasse - Pacherenc du Vic Bilh Brumaire (November) 1999
From the web: Harvested in November, and matured for two years in oak barriques, the extra-ripe, sugar-concentrated petit manseng grapes have produced a hugely elegant and complex sweet wine, full of yellow jammy fruit, apricot and honey.
Background: This is one of the wines we picked up from City Beverage last weekend. One of the reasons we picked it is because brumaire is the name the new government of the French Revolution gave November in 1794 in their effort to wipe the influence of the church out of the French social conciousness (it didn't work well for many of the same reasons the Russian attempt in the 1920s didn't work either. You think someone would have learned. . .). This is one of the wines from the southwest of France near the Pyranees just south of the River Ardour in a village called Maumusson. (page 113 in The World Atlas of Wine). This is a region better known for its reds than whites.
Our thoughts: It's a deep orangey-yellow in the glass with a very pronounced edge. Not much to the smell and the taste is sweet and clear. . .clover honey with just the slightest taste of spice (cinnamon maybe?). Very drinkable it went well with the goat's cheese though we both agreed something salty or herby would have been a better match. Still very tasty and would have worked well as either an apperitif or a digestif.