Ruby Wedding meal

On Sunday we enjoyed a meal cooked by the children for our Ruby wedding celebrations. I picked out two wines from the cellar that were due for drinking, but which you are unlikely to find very frequently in the stores now!

Chateau Cissac Cru Bourgeois Haut- Medoc 1995. I remember buying some bottles of this many years ago in a Leclerc supermarket in the north of France. It was on special offer I recall, but now seems to be available for about £30 a bottle. There does seem to be some in the Everywine list. It certainly looked its age, but on initial tasting was still quite tannic. However, after a decanting and a couple of hours in the decanter it was very much smoother and demonstrating all the fruit and flavour that it had. An excellent partner to the fillet of beef that Joseph was cooking.

Chassagne Montrachet  – Les Vergers 1re Cru, Domaine Marc Morey et Fils. This was a present from the parents of Marlene, a young French girl who lived with us for a year in the 90s. I can only find it available from a german stockist now, although you can buy the 1997 for around £550 a case of 12 from Everywine. I can recall that when I tasted the first bottle of Chassagne Montrachet from them that I was bowled over by the experience. This bottle also showed what a completely different sensation it is to drink this compared to an everyday bottle of chardonney! It was a wonderful golden colour, very full and round, very dry but with a sensational velvet, smooth taste. You can’t get this sort of experience in anything at the £15 price point! Unfortunately I can’t find a ‘Les Vergers’ label!