Art Institute Garden Summer Lunch Wines
One of Linda's favorite eateries in the whole world, sitting by the fountain under summer sun in the McKinlock Garden Court Restaurant at the Art Institute of Chicago. Long-time members, we frequent this idyllic setting several times a year. They have a delightful summer menu with an imaginative, modest but appropriate wine pairing menu selection. Today's visit to the Art Institute was for the Roy Lichtenstein special exhibit.
To accompany L's Chicken Curry Salad she had a 2010 Spanish Albarino from Martín Códax from the Rias Baixas Salnés Valley Spain. I had a grilled pork loin with chantarelle mushrooms, leeks, carmelized onions and arugula accompanied by Chateau Mont-Redon Cotes-du-Rhone 2010.
Martín Códax Rias Baixas Salnés Valley Spain Albarino 2010
Round, medium-full bodied, light pale straw-yellow green colour with a touch of ripe lemon. Bright and slightly sparkling color. Full elegant aromas and flavors of green apples, citrus, grapefruit, a hint of peach with a tangy outgoing freshness.
RM 87 points.
https://www.cellartracker.com/wine.asp?iWine=1136215
https://www.cellartracker.com/wine.asp?iWine=1193611
http://www.chateaumontredon.fr/
To accompany L's Chicken Curry Salad she had a 2010 Spanish Albarino from Martín Códax from the Rias Baixas Salnés Valley Spain. I had a grilled pork loin with chantarelle mushrooms, leeks, carmelized onions and arugula accompanied by Chateau Mont-Redon Cotes-du-Rhone 2010.
Martín Códax Rias Baixas Salnés Valley Spain Albarino 2010
Round, medium-full bodied, light pale straw-yellow green colour with a touch of ripe lemon. Bright and slightly sparkling color. Full elegant aromas and flavors of green apples, citrus, grapefruit, a hint of peach with a tangy outgoing freshness.
RM 87 points.
https://www.cellartracker.com/wine.asp?iWine=1136215
Château Mont-Redon Côtes du Rhône 2010
We visited Chateau Mont Redon during our Rhone Valley Wine Experience. It sits in the slopes overlooking the Rhone River Valley adjacent to their Chateauneuf-du-Papes estate on the route from the village of Chateauneuf-du-Pape to Roquenauer up to l'Orange heading north from town.
The rocky river terrain with its classic stony, limestone-clay plains produces dense intense dark fruit coaxed to maturity and ripeness by the persistent sun.
The 2010 Cotes-du-Rhone is typically aromatic, simple easy drinking medium-full bodied, garnet colored, dark cherry and red berry fruits, with a layer of spice, smoke and anise with a hint of black pepper.
RM 86 points.
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Mont Redon vineyard - note the rocky soil and low cut
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https://www.cellartracker.com/wine.asp?iWine=1193611
http://www.chateaumontredon.fr/
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