Dessert and Sweet Fortified Wine please.

In Finnish food&wine pairing discussion, sugar is the main key factor when trying to decide the wine with dessert. The same old story begins always about having a sweeter (higher sugar content) wine than in the food. Fortunately, the normative way is starting to crumble. The starting point I'd credit to the revolutionary white chocolate and rosé pairing by Cloetta Fazer and WineState.

Last week I did a tasting/food pairing. Anyway there was a protrusive moment when sparkling rosé was paired with some sort of berried mousse. It was spot on! What next? Is there more? Let's forget the sugar and the alcohol? What a structured world of wine pairing!

Time to get my goggles on and dive at the deep end...

Red with Fish?

-Red wine with fish.
-What? No. Ever drank wine with food? Get outta here!

I dare you to try this great bordelais dish but with some improvising.
This dish is about river lamprey(nahkiainen, lamproie, カワヤツメウナギ) and red wine.
This darkening Autumn has created a great food sensation with such a simple ingredients and such a great match! All you need is (cold) smoked lampreys and a gamay from Beaujolais or more specifically Morgon Cotê de Py 2008 by Jean-Marc Burgaud.

Did Burgaud have lamproie when he made this wine? The Perfect Match in a long time. But if you don't have lampreys I think eel would work as well. If you don't drink when eating leave the bottle to mature for awhile.

Yeast

Iphone blogging rules or not?

I got myself thinking about yeast and decided to post my irrational thoughts.

First things first. It is common to use non-commercial yeast to make wine typical of its origin or better stuff than the commoners buy...

Why beaujolais nouveau has banana and other weird aromas? Gamay? Not the carbonic maceration either but the commercial yeast type playing the lead main role.

Let us go back to the naturalistas. Would go full monty if you happened to have the banana under your trousers? That's what I thought. It sure is more awkward if it's artificial than the real thing. But in wine even the realest must fix the the landscape because vine doesn't equal to wine without intervention. To shoot the pistol or to choke the chicken. Errrr. What?何?