Ruinart Champagne for Wine Blogging Wednesday
Brut Ros Champagne, NV, France.
Widely available for around 30/US$70.
Everyone needs friends who come a-visiting brandishing a bottle of bubbly! This being a rose and one delicate in colour, aroma and flavour. Delightful. Gorgeous colour light peach with an edge of pink roses and a strawberry, biscuity edge to the flavour. A little cream… a little red fruit…
Apologies to Sam, host of this months , but I can only recommend this wine as an aperitif. Food matching ideas were one of Sams stipulations for Wine Blogging Wednesday, but I feel the Ruinarts poise and delicacy would vanish if paired with food (leaving little bar a racy collection of bubbles in the mouth).
Although supplied as a surprise gift, with little time for even thinking about matching with food, you could try matching this with strawberries. I have an Italian recipe for Risotto alla Fragole (strawberry risotto), created by Alvaro Maccioni the owner of in London, designed specifically for matching with . It might just work for this ros too, but I am going to need another bottle to find out!
The recommends Andalusian Gaspacho, Sander (a fish) or Fillet of veal.
