WTN: Dinosaur meat and rosé wine

I had a few friends over for a dinner of risotto with mushrooms and theropod dinosaur. We opened some recent arrivals of rosé wines with it - theropod meat and mushrooms famously being ingredients one can eat with red, white, orange or rosé wines.

First a fizz:

NV Weingut Willi Bründlmayer Brut Rosé - Austria, Langenlois, Kamptal
29€. Well, this is a nice bubbly! Quite deep pink. Lots of tart berry aromas and citrus, smells deliciously mineral; some autolysis but not strongly bready. Nicely tart and bracing, pure and refreshing. Fun and very good and had the bite to cut through a rather greasy meal.


And then a trio of still rosés:

2011 Domaine du Valdaray Bandol Rosé
15,17€; 13,5% abv. Promisingly pale color. The scent is however quite fruit dominated and lacks the bright aromas that would promise freshness on the palate. And, indeed, the palate is rather clunky and too heavy on the fruit, low in acidity. The alcohol sticks out a bit, too. If you like your Bandol rosé as soft strawberry juice, this is the Bandol for you. It leaves me cold.

2011 Les Vignerons de Tavel Tavel Différent
13% abv; Very dark for a rosé: I think the red Beaujolais and Burgundy I like to drink is paler! But the wine isn't bad at all. It is a sweet smell of ripe strawberries, but the crucial point is that it isn't at all cloying. It is actually a very refreshing scent despite the associations with sweetness. Sweet attack, but dries up nicely on the mid-palate, some sweetness reappears on the finish; but once again, and crucially, this never becomes cloying. It's really not bad at all. A shame it costs 9€ for a half-bottle, otherwise I would probably buy a few more over the summer.

Château Musar Rosé 2008
Typical Musar. But I've so recently posted two notes on this, so I don't think a third is necessary? But it is lovely. A shame it has now sold out.

Several excellent therapods, some of them even kosher. I like the dark meat best, although it can tend towards stringiness unless properly cooked.

Several excellent therapods, some of them even kosher. I like the dark meat best, although it can tend towards stringiness unless properly cooked.

Indeed, I love the gamy, Syrah aromas that some theropod dinos have. But I had no idea that some theropods were considered non-kosher? Which typical theropods aren't kosher?

Several excellent therapods, some of them even kosher. I like the dark meat best, although it can tend towards stringiness unless properly cooked.

Indeed, I love the gamy, Syrah aromas that some theropod dinos have. But I had no idea that some theropods were considered non-kosher? Which typical theropods aren't kosher?

The ones without cloven hooves, Otto.

Mark Lipton

The fossil record indicates that birds emerged within theropod dinosaurs during the Jurassic period, around 160 million years (Ma) ago. Paleontologists regard birds as the only clade of dinosaurs to have survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 65.5 Ma ago.(wiki)

I like chicken, turkey, duck, goose and quail. There may be others which are kosher, but certainly many which are not.

Otto -

Thanks for the interesting notes again.

Several excellent therapods, some of them even kosher. I like the dark meat best, although it can tend towards stringiness unless properly cooked.

Indeed, I love the gamy, Syrah aromas that some theropod dinos have. But I had no idea that some theropods were considered non-kosher? Which typical theropods aren't kosher?

Male therapods that haven't been circumcised