Bottle of wine al-fresco at dacha Epicuro Primitivo

 Just what the title says, reporting a nice bottle of red enjoyed in country at dacha, al fresco wining

Luca Maroni give 97 points!

97 points leaves nothing much for improvement

Nice with some rich food

In Vino: Marques de Caceres

 That was some good wine well drunk.

The red crianza in particular is rated 92 by James Suckling.

Wonderful the first 2 minutes and couple of big swallows then subsides and drinks like regular table wine.

Very animalistic.

Barolo in Country

 A bottle of cheap Barolo - Antario - enjoyed in the country whilst gardening

We liked it, great if short-lived nose, palate and body - peters out quickly though or the taste buds get saturated and unresponsive - whereupon drinks as a regular table red.

Wine Appreciation: Carlos Serres Crianza 2017

Enough beer appreciation, here is wine appreciation, artistically performed on a bottle of Carlos Serres Crianza 2017.

A couple of wine lunches at our summer villa on successive days in August enjoyed by myself alone.

Actually Carlos Serres Crianza is highly rated on Wine Spectator, 90/100 for certain vintages, but not necessarily for this specific 2017 vintage which is said to be not up to par of the previous couple of vintage, having said that it seemed more than all right to me.

Using a lump of local produced mozarella cheese thing for food paring, I think it goes well with it, pretty subtle and does not interfere with the taste of the wine itself.

Here is who else liked:

A huge killer wasp, aka hornet, it appeared out of nowhere and dived into it seemingly on purpose.

I took it out with a fork after it had its fill and a good bath too, and the thing took wing and buzzed off, didn't even have to dry isself, the other day watched one of those pick a chicken bone clean.

Well, back to wine testing, and here is wine lunch No. 2 on the other half of the bottle, the next day.

Liked it as much on the second day if not more.

Locally produced here in Russia, with some blue mold cheese for food pairing; this is not so straightforward as the moldy thing has a strong taste which may go well with red wine on a contrast basis but not so good for taste-testing.

But I didn't have to do any taste-testing - as I already knew from the day before that it was pretty good.

Locally produced but very good, and believe you me, I know what good blue moldy cheese tastes like.

 

 

 

 

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2/ 3 Summer 2022, Seafood, Red Wine, Mediterranean Cuisine

The 2022 summer goes on and is about to culminate as at August 1, 2022 and so does my summer-mode eating out, cafe culture style, preferably at somebody else's expense in this case something straight out of the Mediterranean cuisine play book.

 

Mediterranean cuisine dishes, including specifically those from Italian cuisine, are good to enjoy in summer time.

 

Enter an Italian-style lunch at a faux Italian-styled eatery here in Moscow, on one of the main thoroughfares in Moscow - Lenindgradskoye shosse.

Here is my photo reportage.

 What was had:

Seafood salad, including mussels.

Pasta - something called Spaghetti Al Pomodoro.

Two glasses of red wine, to wash everything down. Or wherever.

Two 150 gr glasses of red wine, something called:

Montepulciano D'Abruzzo, dry red 

Terre Allegre, semi-sweet

Nice drinkable wine but nothing too memorable.

Some collateral views, the rest room at the place

Street cafe seating view

About RUB 2 thou

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