Sometimes you get the wine wrong (or maybe it's the recipe)

As my blog title indicates, there are times when you pick a great wine, and you are looking forward to drinking it. You wait for the right food to pair it with because you want to be all "a la gourmand". That is exactly what I did. Couldn't wait. 

We had a fabulous meal prepared by, you guessed it, CulinAIRy. It was, albeit. frozen sausage ravioli with a spaghetti sauce, beautifully presented with freshly grated Parmesan cheese and sprinkled with fresh Italian parsley. Even though it was semi-home made,the meal was fabulous as always. 

I couldn't wait to open my lovely Chateau Puech-Haut. A red wine blend from France. It received great reviews from Robert Parker . He gave it 90 points. (Didn't I mention I have pretensions of being a world class gourmand?) The wine was a lovely dark and dense dry red with a hint of plum sweetness. We liked the complexity. Drinking it on its own was so lovely: paired with our meal, not so much.

I'm not saying it was not a great mix, but the acidity of the pasta sauce just added to the dryness of the wine making the after taste a little bitter. You lost the plum notes and all you can concentrate on was the complexity and heaviness of the wine and the whole meal. Two fantastic different elements that one their own were delicious but wrong for each other. 

We definitely want to try that wine again, but we will save it for a nice piece of steak.