WTN: Falanghina and Bourgogne Blanc

Since we didn't do meatless Monday we moved it to Tuesday, with winter squash flans with greens and red wine/shallot sauce (from Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone), and pasta with edamame. Latter seemed to call for white. The first half bottle of the 2007 Feudi di San Gregorio Falanghina (Sannio) was corked, second fine. White fruits, nutty, floral. Good for $4/375 B-/B

Tonight was a family favorite, chicken schnitzel over herbs with a lemony dressing. Wine was the 2007 Roulot Bourgogne Blanc. Lovely for level - that Cote d'Or richness, but with a Chablisesque minerality. Light oak notes, pear and limey citrus with some hazelnut and a hint of flint. Really as good a basic Bourgogne blanc as I've ever had. B++

Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an excellent wine, B a good wine, C mediocre. Anything below C means I wouldn't drink at a party where it was only choice. Furthermore, I offer no promises of objectivity, accuracy, and certainly not of consistency.  

I sell wine. A couple of years ago I had the people from the importer and winery by to taste wines. They had 6 wines, one of whic was the Falanghina. We had talked about alternative closures and they felt that they were about 4% TCA incidence. They proceded to pour and 2 of their 6 wines were corked, including the Falanghina. Over the next 3 months I came cross 3 more bottles at different events where the Falanghina was corked. I did like the wine when it was good.

Actually, this is #5 from a 12 pack of halves. 3 fine, 1 corked, 1 horribly premoxed. Not a big sample, but with your experiences sounds like FdSG could work on cork quality control

$4 a half for their Falanghina is a good price for a very decent wine. A very habdy food wine to have in halves as well.