jamie goode's wine blog: Lunch at Tate Britain

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Lunch at Tate Britain

Had lunch today at Tate Britain, which has a brilliant restaurant as well as some rather good paintings. I was with the team responsible for the London wine trade fair, discussing this year's top 100 tasting. Hamish Anderson, the well-known head sommelier was in attendance and so we let him choose the wines for us: he chose very well. Praepositus Sylvaner 2006 from the Alto Adige was really expressive, aromatic and melony, and the Clonakilla Shiraz 2001 from Canberra District was sensationally good, with expressive, Rhone-like meaty, peppery notes alongside the pure dark fruit. My food was superb: pigeon on white cabbage for starters (gamey, rich) and then a duck cassoulet that was one of the best I've had. A really impressive experience in a lovely setting. Pictured below are some rather attractive freshly pruned plane trees round the corner from the gallery.

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1 Comments:

At 5:15 PM, OpenID hubschrauber said...

I had lunch in my office only. However it was looking so nice that I took a photograph for my web site http://hubschrauber.wordpress.com
Recipe on request!

Best regards

Rosemarie, Germany

 

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