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CREAMY GARLIC MUSHROOMS & TOSSED UP CHICKEN CHILLI
This sounds a super, balanced menu – but it’s a challenge for wines! Mushrooms often go well with red wines, full-bodied ones at that. However there is an integral creaminess to this starter so we need to tone down the full-on red and yet retain some of the character. Rosado is my choice, particularly Bestué 2009 from DO Somontano. This wine, made from Tempranillo and Cabernet Sauvignon is dark in colour, fruity but with a nice lick of acidity to cut through the cream – should be ideal.
Bay Radio's Dynamic Duo, Noelle & Bob, enjoy wines recommended to complement Noelle's Sunday Brunch Recipes!

 

Chicken is very wine-friendly and there are many styles and colours of wine that will suit this popular poultry. Here we have a slight Oriental or South East Asian influence with the addition of sweet chilli sauce and there is a super grape variety to match all the flavours going on in this dish – Gewurztraminer!
 
It’s a mouthful to say but worth it as it makes a wonderful, exotically flavoured, aromatic white wine which really should be on all Chinese/Thai/Indonesian/Vietnamese restaurants’ wine lists! The one I’m thinking of is Bodegas Viñas de Vero’s Gewurztraminer 2009, again from DO Somontano. Considered a German grape variety it’s name means spicy grape – ideal with this sort of cuisine.
 
Both wines are widely available – why not buy them both and enjoy Noelle’s recipes even more?
 
Enjoy!

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I first met Colin when he came to give a review of Vinopolis to his readers of Costa News in Spain. His approach was very refreshing in that he really wanted to give the time to see all of our offer and to experience as much as he possibly could to get a proper understanding. Having read the other testimonials and seen his web site I get the impression that this is how he operates, in all he does.

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 Rupert Ellwood Managing Director

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Bay Radio Presenters, Noelle and Bob, taste the wine recommendation!

Pork In Cider:

We wouldn’t go far wrong with a super, dry cider from Asturias to match this dish – I love them! However it’s a wine we need, and I think a white one with some body to match the light meat of the pork and a touch of apple flavour in there as well to go along with the cider and apple in the dish.

 
The white wine grape variety Macabeo often gives crisp green apple aromas and flavours, but a stainless steel fermented one with no oak ageing may be a little too fresh for this dish. So look for a Macabeo that has been either fermented in barrel, or has had a few months ageing in oak – or both!
 
Over six months in oak would be too much I think as there’s the risk that the variety’s natural acidity would be too neutralised to cope with the rich creamy sauce. Two to four months in oak barricas would be just right.
 
Salud! 

Peter Arnold Wines

Peter Arnold casts a critical eye over his own wine!

9th May 2010

 Hi Colin,

 Congratulations on the launch of your new website.  We think it looks fantastic and hope it will be very successful for you. 

 It’s great to have someone with such passion and enthusiasm ‘championing the cause’ of quality wines here on the Costa Blanca.    

 We look forward to tasting our newly released 2009 vintage wines with you soon.

 Best regards,

Peter & Helen Arnold

La Bodega del Garroferal

Murla, Alicante

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