Creole food with Tokaji Furmint
We had a bottle of Pannon Tokaj's dry furmint in Trinidad, as I was tasting Tokajis away in certain Port of Spain located businesses, and kept a bottle for ourselves. My mother in law, dear Mummy is a fantastic cook and she really did create an excellent meal for us to go with this fantastic dry white wine from the sweeter side of the world.
Mummy baked some chicken drumsticks,potatoes and served with fresh pear slices and beans salad to enjoy our Friday night "indoors sitting outside" the porch, enjoying the cool breeze from the Northern Range creating a gastronomical orgasm on our palate with the food and wine combination.
Personally, I do not think you need to go to wine bars and restaurants or have a special event to enjoy a good meal with a great wine. I think wine should be part of our everyday life, and served with our everyday meal without fear what to wear, what to order from the menu at that special night, let s just forget about all the snobbish nonsense.
Let's enjoy ourselves!
Food and wine, especially Caribbean food paired and mixed greatly with some excellent wines means one thing, and one thing only: BACCHANAL for the palate and tasting buds!
Yes, you need a bit of knowledge and a bit of love to enjoy a good glass of wine with the correct meal- after work, with your lover or sitting on the porch with your friends playing dominoes, but good moments have to have their wines.
Champagne and sparkling wines are part of celebrations, as Machel sings a bottle of rum part of every fetes, so a fine bottle of wine should be part of your every meal!
Champagne and sparkling wines are part of celebrations, as Machel sings a bottle of rum part of every fetes, so a fine bottle of wine should be part of your every meal!
But let's get back to our meal with the Tokaji furmint.
Oh boy, let me tell you this, Tokaji furmint is the wine it can go well with the everyday Caribbean meal, dry, off dry, semi sweet or sweet, you just need to find the correct meal, from bake and shark to curry dishes this grape can produce the perfect wine to your meal.
Furmint is Tokaj's weapon to take on the world, to put on the menus next to your favorite dish!
The wine was absolutely fantastic with the chicken and salad. Really amplified the seasoning of the dish and it spiced up the meal with its characteristic strong fruity flavours of green apple and juicy pear and white pepper notes grabbing the strong Caribbean flavors of the meal with itself.
It was gorgeous.
Zesty start on the palate with the apple and pear with hits of lemon and grapefruit, uplifting the baked chicken, potatoes and bean salad as it needs, not taking away anything, but adding a special hit to the meal, able to hold the meal and give that kick to it i was hoping for.
To me, the Furmint has got some little spicy peppery hit in the back on the palate when it goes down and it comes back in a really intensive harmonic wave with the seasoned baked chicken especially enjoyable with a bite of fresh pear, the acidity right there cutting through like a sharp knife the chicken. Even though the wine is light in body has that muscular strong structure of the furmint that does not let the wine fall a part and become extra additional flavor of the dish.
Fresh and crisp, the acidity and alcohol level in balance, it is a refreshing drink on itself, it also can pair with fish, seafood but also a vegetarian food friendly wine, or just use for a spritzer on the beach in a hot day.
It is a must try! The first step to make towards Tokaj.
You can find recipes on www.caribbeanpot.com or www.trinigourmet.com
both websites are full of other mouth watering dishes from the West Indies.
both websites are full of other mouth watering dishes from the West Indies.
To get a bottle of Tokaji Furmint 2006 dry wine - You must contact us!
Helping out in Fernandes Fine Wines and Spirit shop i must tell you guys the man, Mr Fernandes has an excellent collection of fine portuguese wines. If you are looking for something similar to our Tokaji dry Furmint, search for Vinho Verde in his West Mall shop, do not be scared of trying something new, it may be lighter in body not as muscular and powerful as the furmint but the green apple and pear notes are there to go with your meals, fresh crisp low in alcohol bit more aromatic than our furmint wine but shows similarity.
You can go, buy and try:
Quinta de Aveleda Vinho Verde 2007
Aveleda, Fonte 2009
