International Chenin Blanc Day was on June 14th and of course we must celebrate! Our son and his wife gave us two bottles of Chenin, one from Mexico and one from France. We added our own Chenin and did a side by side tasting. The three wines were:
- 2023 Carrodilla Chenin Blanc
- 2018 Silex Noir Vouvray
- 2019 Passionfruit Estate Chenin Blanc
Our son scored the Carrodilla wine when he and his wife went to dinner at Shipwright's Daughter in Mystic. They kindly left some for us to taste. He also got the Silex Noir for us. We opened one of our 2019 Chenin Blanc to complete the tasting.
We paired the wines with a lemon, parmesan pasta with hazelnuts on top.
The 2023 Carrodilla Chenin Blanc is unusual in that it comes from Mexico, made in the Valle de Guadalupe! My husband did some research on this wine. The vineyard is at 900 feet elevation. The grapes are farmed organically and can be harvested in August. This wine is 100% Chenin Blanc. We liked the wine and thought it paired well with the pasta. I thought that the backend had a little grip, but my husband thought that the backend dropped off.
The next wine we tried was the 2018 Silex Noir Vouvray. We know that this wine will be sweet because it comes from the Loire village of Vouvray. It was a little difficult pairing this with the lemony pasta. The wine is barrel aged. I didn't taste the oak on it, it was seamlessly integrated into the wine, but another food pairing would have been better.
We then tried our 2019 Passionfruit Estate Chenin Blanc. Not going to lie, we liked our own wine and the pairing with the pasta. A thought came to us, we need to try this side by side tasting with our son and his wife. They had left for home by the time we did this tasting but it is something that we should do the next time they are here. It was an interesting tasting of various Chenin Blancs on International Chenin Blanc Day.
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