the foods and drinks that I've cooked and eaten recently

The wines that I've been touched.







The foods that I've cooked. tapenade with green olives and some pastas.







My favorite cup that I've got recently. nice texture and velvety touch on my mouth. I love this simple white cup.

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.

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.

weekday wines

I've tasted these wines for several days. Chablis and Saint Chinian. The Chablis was nice. acidity, fruity, mineral, and smell of barrel? I love this cozy wine. Saint Chinia was also nice. It's been mature, but I enjoyed this wine for three days. The third day was also nice smell like Amaretto or nut nut liqueurs. I loved it too.

fishing

I've been taken to go fishing in sea. Aji(Japanese horse mackerel) is a food in this season. So that We got so many Aji that we can't eat. I gave some to neighbor. I've cooked Tataki, which is a popular Japanese cuisine. just coarsely-chopped the fish meat and added ginger, thinner green onion, soy-sauce. It goes together with rice.

Marc Pesnot coming!

I've joined a small wine tasting party tonight. We've enjoyed the wine with the Vigneron, Marc Pesnot!! He is one of the nicest vignerons who make natural friendly wonderful wines.







The wine shop owner gave a short sleeves shirt which was printed the label of Melon. Everybody loves this label. This label has triple meanings. The first meaning is Melon is a bowler hat in French. and the second was Melon also means Melon de Bourgogne, Muscadet. This is the reason why INAO( Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité) didn't alow to call his wine as a Muscadet. Because, They said this wine isn't clear and not common Muscadet in Loire, even though he is trying to make nicer wines, tastes nice, elegant and friendly. This is ridiculous. As if INAO says Muscadet has to be more sour. It's fun to read his label somtime. like this. People will hat off to these wines. This is the third meaning.






He makes a red wine with abouriou, but It couldn't become wine this year. Because It's very hard to make the wine in Loire. the skin was so thin , get moldy easily, and week against agricultural pest. So that other vigneron uprooted the tree in Loire. There are less variety now. I'd got the feeling it's similar with gamay when I tasted before. I'm looking forward to he makes it and taste abouriou.