Marques de Riscal Limousin Reserva 2000
Like the Canyon Road Sauvignon Blanc we blogged about previously, we picked up a couple of bottles of this Spanish Limousin mainly because it was being discontinued by the Saskatchewan Liquor Board (oops, just realized that's the old name--it's now called the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority). This is essentially a Chardonnay, or at least it tastes like one. Although we're not averse to Chardonnays, neither of us is a big fan of the heavily oaked California-style ones. This lacked that kind of overbearing sharpness, while maintaining a bit of the butteriness the best Chardonnays also boast. It's extremely dry--too dry to be entirely enjoyable all on its own--but it worked well with food. (We had a bit of it with the Dijon-smeared lamb we mainly drank Pinot Noir with--see the post on the Gloria Ferrer Carneros Pinot Noir--and it was OK, though nowhere near as good as the Pinot Noir was.) It emphatically did not work with the pork-in-fruit-sauce dish we had last night. A fine wine, but we probably wouldn't go out of our way to buy it again.
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