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We just posted our WBW 44. It is on our old site â?¦.http://chezdeniseetlaudalino.blogspot.com/ and our new site â?¦. http://www.chezus.com – we are going live with our new site tomorrow, April 2nd.!

Great event, Gary, Thanks!

I had a wine from the Saumur region when out to dinner a few weeks ago at Tinderbox in SF. It was great!

LOVE LOVE the Cab Franc and now that you pointed a less expensive one out I can budget that!!! Never can get enough…last experience was with my 6 girlfriends splitting the bottle with alot of laughter!!

Have a good one!

gary
u kick it on video, daddyo
good on ya
keep it coming bro
mjr

One from Cahors. Nice structure and pickle notes. More than I expected for $10.

QOTD: The 2005 Domaine Gasnier Chinon Vieilles Vignes sells for $16.50 nearby. I’m going to get it soon. I’ve had other Cabernet Francs but I can’t remember when, at least 2 years ago.

I’ve had a Chinon before and loved it, probably a Bourgueil too, but can’t remember when or which one. All in all, Cab Franc = A o.k.

WBW post from my blog!

I picked up a piece of St Maure Chaput from the Honest Weight Co-op in Albany, NY last week.

This is a cheese from Quebec made from raw goat’s milk and coated with vegetable ashes. I found this cheese mild and tangy. My coworkers found the cheese’s smell more intense than I did.

To serve the cheese, I sliced it widthwise and separated out the ashes with a knife. I served a slice on a cracker and drizzled it with a little honey. Served plain, this cheese could pair well with a light, refreshing Chardonnay or Cabernet Franc wine.

Last night I purchased, on the good advice of my blogging friend Alex, a wedge of Taleggio Caravaggio, a washed rind cow’s milk cheese from Italy.

I paired it with the rest of my dinner and a glass of 2005 Fabrice Gasnier Chinon (the first wine Gary tried), a Cabernet Franc based wine from the Loire Valley in France. The cheese is gooey and thick, and brought out the tanginess on the Cab Franc.

I also paired the Cab Franc with rice flavored with white truffle butter, steamed broccoli and sesame oil and sauteed oyster and shitake mushrooms with a dash of pepper.

The vegetal tasting broccoli with the toasty sesame oil topping and the Cabernet Franc were a great match.

The mushroomy taste of the shitake mushrooms also matched well with the Cabernet Franc.

The Cabernet Franc caught the earthy undertone of the Truffles, but the overall delicate flavor of the truffle butter was overpowered by the wine’s stronger flavors.

In this Youtube video, Scott from Fox Run Vineyards in Penn Yann, NY shares food pairing tips for his winery’s Cabernet Franc.

He says that steak, pizza and burgers are perfect matches for this red wine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAT4_2ovnnQ

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Last Cabernet Franc: in Paris! It was a Chinon recommended by a guy at the wine shop at Galleries Lafayette. I got this wine for a dinner with my Parisian friends that evening. However, myself and one of my friends were down with colds, so we weren’t in good shape for tasting –nevertheless, we finished off the Chinon AND a bottle of Cotes de Castillon that they had bottled-up from the barrel when visiting family in Bordeaux this year.

The next day I met you –Gary Vaynerchuk– in Charles de Gaulle, as we were on same flight back to NYC. Nice meeting you, man!

Didn’t get to watch this until Friday…but great show.
We’ve had Cab Franc from California and Georgia.

GV = incredible energy you created with your theme, thanks for being a franc-fan!

In honor of the challenge, and with the boyz at home, I opened the 2005 Bernard Baudry ‘Les Grezeaux’ Chinon. The persistent beam of pure Cabernet Franc fruit just kept me jumping up and down [ala GV] and shouting, this is it, this is it, don’t forget this!… pretty tightly wound and wanting at least a few more years, we had to open a second bottle in hopes of leaving a glass or two to test the next day. No luck – decanter was empty before lights out.
let them drink franc!

Here’s the R.O.T. links for WBW 44, http://reignofterroir.com/2008/04/01/cabernet-franc-wine-blogging-wednesday-44/ for Ken & mine’s efforts, and http://reignofterroir.com/2008/04/02/how-professionals-taste-wine/ for Donna’s excellent tasting interview.

Nice show Gary, even with the manure! Good choice for WBW 44.

QOTD – see my WBW 44 post on Reign of Terroir! Here’s the summary of the Reign of Terroir contributions, for some reason it’s not showing my “Greybeard” post linking these in….
http://reignofterroir.com/2008/04/01/cabernet-franc-wine-blogging-wednesday-44/
http://reignofterroir.com/2008/04/02/how-professionals-taste-wine/

I am a big fan of Cab Franc and therefore this show hit home.
I do not know the producers in Chinon that well, but I always have 3-6 bottles of Chinon or Saumur in my cellar.

I sent you a note a while back about a Cab Franc from CA that was really good – like drinking a glass of vegetables – I think it was called Glaeser.

At last I can respond in positive fashion. Wrote you back in February regarding a Couly-Dutheil Chinon 2005 I found after another earlier episode and loved it. Pairs well with hot Italian sausage grilled with peppers, onion and garlic.

Bought another bottle shortly after that and will try it a little later.

Good episode as always.

WOW, great epsiode, lots of energy.
QOTD- I don’t remember the last Cab Franc but I am sure I have had one, I guess it means I need to have another one.

Haven’t had Cab Franc from France. I am waiting for the money to start rolling in! I have had an Australian Cab Franc from Wine settlement company that I loved, and I recently had a Cougar Crest Cab Franc that I enjoyed as well.

QOTD: Chinon La Baronnie Madeleine by Couly-Dutheil 2001. Quite funkee.

Here ya go Gary

Thanks for hosting

Wine Blogging Wednesday #44 French Cabernet Franc

Great show gary, I love Cab franc.

Gary,

Just catching up now.

“it’s nice to like everything”

particularly

“youthful juberance”

We love you man.

Gary – love Cab Franc??? How about doing a nod to your Seattle trip?

Take your fav Cab Franc and put it up against Walla Walla Vintner’s 2005 Cab Franc. Would be interested in hearing your thoughts.

loving cab franc
here is my post – better late than never! 🙂

http://anythingwine.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/wine-blogging-wednesday-44-french-cabernet-franc/

J DUB

Its not hard to find good cabernet franc from the Loire here in Brussels, but I was recently blown away on a trip to Saumur last summer. It was an unexpected wine paradise with fantastic reds on top of stunning whites and roses. Add in super nice unpretentious winemakers for a rare combination. I do find the emphasis on vegetables and rotting carcasses a bit strange as I tasted not a single wine like this. Plenty of dry, woody, and tannic wines, but also some great pure fruit. Incredible values too. Domaine Filliatreau was a favorite visit. Their Chateau Fouquet at â?¬15.00 is a steal.

that was a fascinating episode. I’d love to try some loire cab franc…