A Menu for Hope...Wine Pairings

Many of us have lived fairly charmed lives...lives where we more-or-less have never wanted for anything. Sure, we may not have had foie gras on our plates or Petrus in our glasses every night, but we always had a roof over our heads and food in our stomachs. We never had to worry about the basics of survival...and we should be grateful.

Today, food and wine bloggers from the world over are taking the time to help those that are battling for the survival we too often take for granted...those so devastated by the tsunami in Sout East Asia and East Africa.

The always wonderful Pim of ChezPim has organized what can only be described as a motley crew of food lovers from around the world...a crew formed to create a tasting menu, with wine pairings -- A Menu for Hope.

Please do check it out and by all means, try some of the dishes. There are some supremely talented culinary minds involved.

Frankly, it was an honor just to be involved. Visit all the contributing blogs by clicking on the various menu items. As you can see, I was asked to suggest a couple wines to go with the entrees.

Most importantly, if you read LENNDEVOURS regularly or even if you don't, click on the donation button at the bottom of the menu and give money to those living less charmed lives than yourself. Any dollar amount helps. The wines I picked out are both under $20, so donate the extra you could have spent on vino.

Please give what you can.

Comments

[Viv]

Do tell about the Burgundy Lenn! Pretty please? :-)

[Lenn]

I would love to have done so in the post...but TypePad kept stripping out the image map stuff if I added anything to it. It's a definite bug that I'm not happy about.

Anyway, here's a quick review (don't have my notes here with me):

I bought it at Moore Brothers (http://www.moorebros.com/) in Southern NJ. They have another store in Delaware I think and also are opening one in Manhattan (I can't wait for that!). They work closely with small producers in Italy, Germany and France and do all their own arrangements for importing etc. Their wines never get about 56 degrees until they get into your car. Their STORES are even kept at 56.

I paid less than 20 bucks for it (I want to say 17ish) and it's great...very femenine wine with lots of cherry and minerals and it's just delicious. It's meant for the mushroom dish primarily. Pinot and shrooms are a classic pairing and the brighter than you'd expect fruit of this Burgundy will play well with the spices of the dish I think. Plus, it's smooth, silkiness will go well with the bright acidity of the lime juice etc.

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