Over two days we drank a 2020 Pegau pink. I'm so in love with this producer that I buy these pinks when I run into them, and yet I never find them particularly good vs. just okay. Like all the others have been, this was just okay.
After that intro glass of Pegau (with scallops, shrimp, cherry toms and garlic over vermicelli), Bob requested a light red wine. So I traipsed off to the cellar and returned with a 28 year old Aussie:
1995 Grosset Gaia Clare Valley Red Bordeaux Blend
Our last of three and the best one of the bunch. Had a better cork, where the others crumbled on removal. Dark garnet color. Mature black and red fruit with cedar on the nose, some graphite on the palate, silky finish. Very very nice.
Last night we finished the Pegau with a bowl of sweet cherry tomatoes standing in for a salad course, and then poured this to go with an Irish stew:
2004 Château Pontet-Canet Pauillac Red Bordeaux Blend
Decanted two hours in advance and filtered the last third for sediment. Dark and opaque, but appropriate for age and origins. Brooding, loamy blackberry and black currant fruit but very dry on the palate (typical '04) and likely at peak. Comes alive with food.