weekend meal

Those foods that I cooked and ate on this Sunday.
the salad with cucumber, tomato and octopus. The dressing was white vinegar, olive oil, ggrated sesame seeds, salt and pepper.



edamae. It is a popular appetizer in summer here. People drink beer with them.




a spaghetti with pesto genovese. There are a bunch of basil that my mother grew. She don't use them even though she grow basil. So, I made the it. She don't use them on cooking, but she eat this pasta. haha.


This is a Japanese simmered dish, "Iwashi no nitsuke". Some people simmer Iwashi(sardines) with Umeboshi(salted Japanese apricot which taste salty and sour. non-Japaense wouldn't be familiar with it).

weekend wine

the wines that I've tasted tonight. Chateau Branaire Ducru(2001) was nice balanced. I've got the feeling as if there were many scents inside the circle.

pipe and wine

This wine and pipe went together. this pipe leaves was similar smelling with the wine. I can't describe what it is though.

yakisoba

I ate yakisoba at lunch. Usually, people add Yakisoba sauce in it, but I didn't use it this time.

a home party

I was invited a home party tonight.






I brought three white bottles of Japanese wine made by Grace winery. Because people who are wine lovers usually tend not to drink or bring Japanese wine. and I wanted to hear what people said this wine. The variety was kerner. It was the first time to drink this variety and I liked it. It's completely the nuance of a grapefruit. It's a nice wine for drinking outside in a hot summer day. I've also brought a Italian kerner wine to compare. It's far from it. I prefer Japanese one. There were another white wine, but I lost the chance to take the photo. That was Meursault. It wasn't bad at all.






The red wines were full bottle type. It's rich tannin and ripen fruits.






This is a sweet type of wine made by Grace winery. It's not complicated. simple light sweetish dessert wine.

Lovely natural wines

We've opened those wines below.

The left picture was Sauvignon Blanc. It's rich, but not thick. It's different from usual sauvignon blanc, I think. The middle wasa also the same grape. It smelt like citrus and fresh. I like to drink it in a summer day. The right was Chenin Blanc. It's extraordinary smell. I wanna drink it again.












Recently, I have a chance to taste Bordeaux. I've got a feeling of that Bordeaux wine(might be aged ones) has a style. and It's exellent. But I also liked the wine like these wines tonight. There are lots of charm that I wouldn't have expected. I can't say which is better. Anyway, I'm lucky to have opportunities to taste those wines.

Tonight Bordeaux wine.

We've opened two bottles of wine tonight. Both were aged. 1994 and 1975. The 1975 smelt like Chinese rice wine at first. and enough acid as an old wine. It begun to smell like fruits, spice, meaty smell, and nice smell mushroom after minutes. It's not thick, more elegant. The 1994 smelt like mushroom too. It's better balanced than 1995. I liked both.

Calon Segur again

I had a chance to drink this wine another vintage. Somehow, I can smell nice mushrooms, currant, spice. when I taste this wine. I've told it might be the smell called "sous-bois". I have some chances to drink Bordeaux recently. A French wine lover invites me. I think Bordeaux wine is also nice. I wanna try aonther Bordeaux sometimes when I can join. The pino was also nice balanced.

eating and drinking in one weekend

What I drunk and ate in one weekend. Pho, Sauted and marinated Tuna, and a nice elegant red wine, Les plos de baumes 2000 made by Domaine D'aupilhac.

Didier Daguneau

It's been long time after tasting. I have a time to upload the photos.

We've tasted some wines produced by Didier Daguneau. I've told that his son accede the wine making now, after he were gone by an accident. I wanna drink the wines he makes too.

First of All, We've relieved ourselves thirst with champagne, Gaston Dericbourg. That made a nice start.




I liked both, but Buisson Renard's excellent smell has gone down faster. I wanted to enjoy this smell for more while. it couldn't help it.

We've tasted a red wine before the last of his sweet wine, Pascal Simonutti. It's nice light wine. I like his wine.



The last wine of Daguneau tonight was this, les Jardins de Babylone. What a lovely sweet wine. I also like this label.




While tasting, There were some foods.




And after that, We wanted drink more, so We opened some mroe wines. 2004 Nuitage, Marc Pesnot. Nice natural white wine. 2003 Bourgueil, Yannick Amirault. Nice silky wine. and Beaujolais Nouveau 2004, Jean Foillard. This Nouveau can drinkable after years. What a surprise!

weekend wines

I've sipped a pouilly fume 2006 and a pommard 1998 tonight. Both were nice balance. The white smelt like grapefruit, nice acid. The red was also nice acid, soft tannin, berries, and little citrus like oranges. It also smelt like pencil. I don't know why I felt like pencil smelling, but sometimes I feel that way.