The menu was Duck breasts with fingerling potatoes and snow peas.
The Duck was seared to perfection and sliced thin for tenderness.
The wine was 2003 Sondraia-The Sondraia 2003 is a red wine, made by Poggio al Tesoro. Its origin is Bolgheri in Tuscany, Italy. It is made from the Cabernet Franc grape. It is produced from the 2003 harvest.
Bolgheri wine region
Tuscany's enchanting area of Bolgheri is situated south of Livorno on the Ligurian coast in Central Italy. Its winemaking zone is made up of sloping coastal vineyards found at the foot of the hills between the town of Bolgheri, after which this DOC is named and the southern part of Castagneto. Located in close proximity to the Tyrrhenian Sea, it has been described as ‘the golden oasis of the Maremma’.
In the 1960s the Tuscan wine industry was in need of a ‘shake-up’ and it was Bolgheri that became one of the avante-garde areas to help bring this region back to life. One of the ways this area proved its worth was by introducing a new trend of non-DOC wines, an innovative style of wine named the ‘Super Tuscan’. In this ‘revolution‘, its hero wine was Sassicaia (a Bordeaux-style red created from French vines whose cuttings originally came from the Chateau Lafite-Rothschild estate in Bordeaux), that rocked the world and became the wine of legends. Not only did it bring Bolgheri into the limelight, but Tuscany too. Sassacaia was also the first ever and only Italian wine to be honored with its own single estate classification, thus in 1994, Bolgheri and Bolgheri Sassicaia DOC were born.
Dessert-Dark Chocolate Mouse Cake-
Coffee and Cigar.
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