weekend drinks

I had two bottle of wines and one bottle of grappa this weekend. The rose was nice balanced. I think this is one of my most 5 favorite rose. It's made by Yannick Amirault in Bourgueil, Loire. The red was a Barolo, Manzoni vigna Big 1995. I've got a feeling of berries, cherries, little menthol(might be strange expression though) and something. I like the aged wine like this. The grappa was flavored with juniper berry. Very nice scent too!

The wine was a rose in Loire, made by Thierry Puzelat. It smells peach and pear. The pasta was Orecchiette with tomato sauce and bamboo shoots. The cigar was Fonseca. I liked this light cigar.

today's pasta

I ate pasta with rose wine as a lunch. The pasta sauce was cooked with canned tomato, caper, garlic, red pepper, harasu(which is the abdomen of salmon in Japanese, ), and Japanese onion(like welsh onion).

le rose de janot

I've drunk a rose, le rose de janot, with a plate of simmered lentils and sausage. The cheese was Mothais a la feuille.

smoking food part3

On Friday, We've make smoking food again, not to forget the recipe. The friend built two smoking box and tried the ingredients we wanted to try, pork, chicken breast fillet, shirasu(tine fishes), shiitake mush room, petit tomato, hanpen, and blah, blah. some were succeeded, some were failed. The failure was also fun. We had great time.













We've opened three bottle of wine, blanc and two rose. Unfortunately, one of the Roses was bouchonné. It was the first time to get bouchonné wine. a blanc was made form Oesterreich, Polz. the Cépages was Gruner Veltliner. This wine was great。 nice mineral, rich fruits flavor, and honey. It went together with smoking foods and A wash cheese, Hansi, one of Munster which is washed by Marc de Gewurztraminer. and bread also went together with the cheese. the bread was include some seeds like cummin or something. it's very nice match.

cherry blossom viewing 2007

We've enjoyed cherry blossom viewing. kinda picnic. It's a nicer picnic day than last year. It was quite hot as Spring. Many people enjoyed this cherry blossom viewing.

I've brought okowa, rose wine, and Japanese sweets. It was the first time to cook Okowa though, it wasn't bad. I added salated sakura petal in Okowa.







One of Us took a nice nap. I should've taken a nap too.




It's never concern to blossom viewing. My niece got this funny toy as her own souvenir in Hokkaidou, Marimokkori.

rose and curry

I enjoyed curry with a rose wine. I liked L'engarra's rose. this one is the downgrade rose and doesn't smell like the other upgrade rose smells like strawberry though, I like this too. you can enjoy casually with this wine. In passing, tonight curry was shrimps and bamboo shoots.