Dandy dinner

[Florida Jim]

With butternut squash soup (with onions and apples), and, then a salad of baby greens, manchego, walnuts and fresh figs:

2001 Donnhoff, Estate Riesling:

This wine has come together since release and shows flint, white fruit, sarsaparilla and citrus on the nose with a palate that echoes the nose and has picked-up richness. Long, detailed and structured, it is no danger of falling off. Lovely wine and one of the best wine and food matches I have ever had (both dishes).

With grilled (rare) wild, king salmon with caramelized onions:

1996 Jadot, Clos St. Denis:

Serious wine with good structure and dimensional but focused fruit, great depth and intensity, well concentrated, good balance and an overall sense of weightless elegance.

The focus and weightless intensity are really impressive and it was a very good match with the dish. Many years to peak.

Best, Jim