Wine with friends

[Florida Jim]

With grilled pork chops, sautéed corn and zucchini, roasted onions and green lentils:

2000 Nikolaihof, Riesling Im Weingebirge Samragd:

Moderate aromas of honeycomb, flowers and white fruit with a touch of white pepper/

Medium body with crisp acids, moderately deep flavors that follow the nose adding a mineral element, good intensity and balance/

Medium length, clean finish.

Slightly closed and lacking the depth of the Steiner Hund or the ’99 version of this wine yet still mouth-wateringly delicious and excellent with the pork. Imported by Skurnik wines.

1996 Allemand, Cornas Chaillot:

Diane says it smells like mold but in a good way (conceptual conundrum?); I get ripe blackberry, pepper, smoke, cardamom, animal, wet earth and wild flowers, this screams Cornas/

Dense and rich on the palate without being heavy, a worsted mouth feel, layered and fleshy flavors that follow the nose, excellent concentration, delineation, complexity, structure and superb balance/

Very long, ever so slightly tannic finish.

Oh my! Authentic, arresting, tantalizing wine that could not possibly be from any other dirt. The confluence of the Rhone and Isere is just outside the window.

Imported by Kermit Lynch.

Best, Jim