1996 Pommard Leroy Les Vignot

After the blog writing hiatus during the month of August, celebrating our son's wedding and having relatives visit from far away, this September blog post finds us with our friends enjoying a delicious paella made by the Paella King and wine from our generous friends, she of the white wine discerning palate and he of the often on-the-road sports filmer. So, this gathering which finds all six of us together in any given year is somewhat rare but always enjoyable.
This evening's fare was a seafood paella, where we learned that paella refers to the dish that the food is cooked in and when the dish is seafood and not on a bed of rice but on pasta, it is called "fideo", our chef explained. What to pair with seafood fideo, but 2 bottles of 1996 Les Vignot Pommard from Leroy. It's difficult to know with seafood, what would work, white or red, but oh, it did pair so nicely with the paella. There was a lingering spiciness in the well balanced burgundy that complimented the fideo.
My husband explained to me that this bottle of wine is a Village level wine but from a single vineyard, Les Vignot. I know that Domaine Leroy has vineyards that are farmed using biodynamic techniques because in the book Voodoo Vintners written by Katherine Cole, there is a wonderful story about Lalou Bize-Leroy when she attended the 2003 International Pinot Noir Celebration that is worth reading.
The evening ended with chocolates and shortbread cookies and talk of visiting the Zimmerman house located in Manchester, New Hampshire built by Frank Lloyd Wright.