WTN: 08 Texier St. Joseph

We had a great time drinking the 2008 Texier St. Joseph VV La Croix. The wine had a lovely blend of savory, herbal, and fruity flavors, with such crisp linear structure that I was sure my wife would find it 'too sour'. (Which is often her complaint with my favorite wines) But she loved it and drank more than I've seen her drink in a long time.

After tasting the wine, I added tamarind paste to the kidney beans which were finished with cilantro, and the whole thing was a very nice match, which does not often happen with tamarind and cilantro. The wine also did very well with shisito peppers, which I wouldn't necessarily have expected for a red wine. Heck, it even held its own with a lettuce and ripe lemon boy tomato salad with a zesty vinaigrette. The wine impressed on many many fronts!

[David M. Bueker]

Lovely. I am very surprised that cilantro did not kill the wine.

Lovely. I am very surprised that cilantro did not kill the wine.

Not at all. Although it wasn't a particularly pungent batch of cilantro and the topping was moderate. That said, the herbal aspects were there and all working together in the wine and the food. Other wines would not have fared as well with this meal.

[James Roscoe]

If you eat cilantro and swear does your mother still have to wash your mouth out with soap or is that redundant? I have always wanted to ask that question. This seemed like a good place to post it.) Nice notes. I wish we saw more of these wines in the DC suburbs.