Posts Tagged ‘Shiraz’
Red wine and steak
Monday, August 25th, 2008
For the reward given – cooking steak is probably one of the best things you can do to entertain guests. It’s so easy and there’s really no better accompaniment for steak than red wine.
I like to buy a whole Angus fillet and cook it first before cutting it into fillet steaks, this way you can keep the juices and really preserve a lot of the flavour. It also presents a perfect opportunity to do what any male wine millennial, or any male for that matter – likes most… marinade. Like making hot-sauce, there is perhaps no time more satisfying to a man than when given the chances to marinade something. There’s a certain feeling of alchemy in preparing the meat that really doesn’t come with other pre-preparation chores like peeling potatoes or rolling pastry flat.
The ingredients for getting a steak ready are quite simple: rock salt, English mustard, lemons, pepper, red wine, olive oil, chopped garlic and mixed spices. Adding lemon juice helps seal the steak and within minutes the pinkish colour will disappear and the fillet will start to gain a more cooked sort of colour. At this point I roll the fillet in a bed of rock-salt before smothering it in a healthy dose of English mustard mixed with spice and crushed garlic. Once done, leave it to soak in a pool of red wine on top of a bed of diced onions allowing the blood and fermented juice to comingle.
Tags: event, Guest, Health, juice, millennial, onion, php, preparation, read, Shiraz, unity, Viognier, Wine
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The Butcher’s Tree Shiraz Cabernet Merlot 2004
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Now here’s a great name for a Rugby wine. After all, if one is to be watching this blood-sport at a bar amongst beer swigging friends, there is a lot of merit in being able to lean across the bar and order three large glasses of Butcher’s Tree. Especially in this day of overly feminized wine labels that perhaps border on the ridiculous – its good to have something that leans on the other extreme of unbridled and extreme masculinity.
Indeed, this wine is an apt metaphor for the front row of a Rugby Scrum, with a triage of big shot varietals – a slender Merlot squeezed twixt a big Aussie Shiraz and a forceful Cab. This wine punches out with flavour and pushes forward with forceful fruits, bar-smoke and hot sweaty gamy notes. A perfect wine to compliment eating dried meat whilst watching a competitive and invigorating sport.
Tags: Cabernet, elixir, Merlot, review, Shiraz, Wine
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Allesverloren 2003 Shiraz
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
A nose reminiscent of a freshly lit fireplace burning pine needles and cedar… a strong Northern Rhone characteristic. About two years ago, my friend Tom and I ffinished a magnum of Allesverloren 1980 Shiraz over a boozy celebratory lunch, and it drank beautifully. So I imagine that the 2003 could perhaps lie on its side for years to come and only grow from strength to strength, but in the short run this wine gives plenty bang for the buck and is a really serious Shiraz. A great asset to our country.
Tags: elixir, review, Shiraz, Wine
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Backsberg Elbar, 2005
Monday, September 3rd, 2007
Anything associated with ‘Back’ be it Charles Back, Backsberg, Fairview, MAN Vintners or Senga Wines is tipped for greatness. I’m out of my league drinking such a wine, as it runs circles around my 5 year old palate being predominately Malbec, with lashings of Shiraz, a dollop of Mourvedre, essences of Sangiovese, a taste of Petit Verdot and smatterings of Zinfandel and Viognier. This wine is a melange of wine in one wine and thus is one to drink with intrigue and wonder, a wine of such integration is a symbol of the new South Africa and a pleasure to drink.
Tags: elixir, Malbec, Petit Verdot, review, Sangiovese, Shiraz, South Africa, Viognier, Wine, Zinfandel
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The Beginning
Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Tags: Aristotle, elixir, history, Iran, Rome, Shiraz, Wine, Winston Churchill
Posted in Culture, Lifestyle, Passion, Stories, Travel | 3 Comments »
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