Susan and I had another “bank holiday” yesterday, and spent the day running around Center City trying to get to all the errands we’re NOT going to get to over the next month-and-a-half.
Our last stop was Johnny Yi’s stall at the Reading Terminal Market, where we picked up a big, fat filet of Red Snapper. Said filet was later baked with leeks, a touch of walnut oil, and topped with a lime butter and chives. To wash all this down, we drank Vincent Ricard’s delicious, and ridiculously undervalued Touraine “Le Petiot” 2006.
We don’t often cook this kind of “cooler climate” recipe. More often than not our dinners, be they seafood or meats, tend to be Mediterranean preparations, rich with olive oil and rosemary. Last night gave me the opportunity to show Susan WHY we don’t often drink Loire valley whites (I wrote about this a long time ago), by pouring out a little olive oil, and having her taste it with the wine. No good.
BUT…when placed in context, alongside the butter and walnut oil laced baked fish, this wine was stunning!
I’m always asked “What’s your favorite wine?” My answer is always, “All of them,” and I always hasten to add, that all of the wines have a perfect home next to the right food. A wine like the “Petiot” is also delicious on its own, by the way, but it really had the spotlight with our lovely baked Snapper last night.