Gibier @ Tokyo

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I went a Gibier restaurant "Ino Shika cho" @ Koen-ji, Tokyo with my friends, who are all wine lovers.  The restaurant is "BYO (Bring Your Own)" with corkage fee (\1,000), so my friends brought wines that they think to mariage to any type of Gibier dishes.

It was a great dinner with tasty food and fine wines.  I was impressed with the quality of food and great sense of my friends to choose such a wonderful wines.

First, we had a Australian white wine, souvenir of one of the friends (Mr. O) who just had come back from Australian winery tour.

Wine: 2012 PEGGY'S HILL RIESLING / HENSCHKE
Dish:  Duck breast ham

 


This wine is by the HENSCHKE winery, famous as the Australian best Shiraz "Hill of Grace." Wow, he went the Henschke winery...envy you!!

The color of wine was clear and pale yellow with green note.  Observed a few bobble.  From the chilled wine, there were some aromas and bouquets of citrus, apple, La France (pear), and white flowers with stony mineral.  Very dry and rich sour.  Rich fruits flavor and very floral taste with rich minerals.  As the temperature increase, there were an aroma of apple's nectar and a bit of petrol-like aromas as well.  Very elegant, very fine wine.  I loved it so much that it would be one of my best Riesling in my life so far.
More impressing thing was that this wine showed perfect mariage with the Duck breast Ham! The sour of this wine went great with the delicate meat and fat of the duck! Wow, it was just a perfect mariage❤

Next, we ordered a Deer's Sashimi.  While waiting the dish, we opened other wines we brought; one for this dish, another for waiting to fully open the aromas.
Wine: 2008 DEYO / CASTILLO DE MONJARDIN
Dish: Deer's Sashimi

 


Look at this color of meat! How fresh they were♪ Very fine and delicate red meat, so I always crave this dish!
We tried the Spanish Merlot wine (M-chan's selection) for this dish.  The wine, Deyo, is from D.O. Navarra, Spain, and made by a winery "Castillo de Monjardin."
The color was cherry-red.  Powerful aromas of dark-cherry and berries with a little of dried fruits.  Also some oaky aroma like cigar and wood with spice, earth, and meat aromas.  Rich fruits flavor with very silky texture, round tannin, and well acidity.  Wow, so tasty! I love it❤
It surprisingly went great with the deer's sashimi! Though this dish came with garlic soy-sauce, it was better to have without the sauce for this wine.  The condensed deer's meat flavor was like a bluefin tuna sashimi, which was great with the wine's aromas of like row meat or iron. OK, another best mariage tonight❤Great selection.  Thanks for M-chan!

In the meanwhile, aromas of the other wine had been fully appeared.  We tried this wine with deer's stew.  
Wine:2009 CH. MONBOUSQUET / SAINT EMILION
Dish: Deer's stew

 

Chateau Monbousquet is located in the AOC St. Emilion and had a long history; its origins go back to 1540.  On 1993 it was sold to Gerard Perse; afterwards, quality of the wine improved mainly due to
a genius oenologist "Michel Rolland." Finally, this chateau became Grand Cru Classe of the Saint Emilion classification.

2006 Ch. Monbousquet, the color was dark ruby.  Right after taking off the cork, the aromas and bouquet were mainly tobacco, cigar, and cider.  After half to one hour, different aromas came up like ripe blueberry, cassis, or dark-cherry with demitasse coffee, toffee, chocolate, vanilla, cinnamon, and clove.  Also there was some nuance of ink bouquet and others.  Rich fruits flavor, acidity, and tannin;  a little tanic but silky texture.  Very powerful wine♪
The cepage is 60% merlot, 30% cabernet franc, and 10% cabernet sauvignon.  It was aged in 100% oak for 18 to 24 months, then blended and bottled without filtration.

It was great to enjoy this wine by itself; however, it was much better to have this with the deer's stew:) The meat was very tender, the taste was very rich and many spice flavors, which was just perfect harmony and perfect mariage with this wine!

We had one more bottle of wine, but I had a little more than enough wine at this time, so forgot to take tasting memo in detail.... OK, let me try the wine again, hopefully soon!


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