I had previously blogged about this wine, and finally got to taste the wine. I had read somewhere that a certain merchant provided a crystal spoon with their bottle of Esszencia to indicate how people take that precious sweet wine, by the spoon, rather like medicine! So I decided to explore spoons rather than appropriate glasses. I obtained some medicine spoons for me to have an idea how much the different spoons (teaspoon, soup spoon, dessert spoon etc) can contain. But it was the captain at the Grill Room who solved my problem. The solution was the Chinese soup spoon, often nowadays used by chefs as a convenient vessel for various canapes and amuse-bouches.
Having solved the problem of service, I decided not even to think about a dessert to accompany it, as that would be doomed to fail. So we had this instead of dessert. A rich mahogany brown (not unlike Pu-er tea), it was sweet on the nose with a dominating scent of dried apricots. The palate was very sweet but filled with raisin and dried apricot notes. The dried apricot notes formed a solid backbone hiding the supporting acidity very well from the senses. Brilliant!
Having solved the problem of service, I decided not even to think about a dessert to accompany it, as that would be doomed to fail. So we had this instead of dessert. A rich mahogany brown (not unlike Pu-er tea), it was sweet on the nose with a dominating scent of dried apricots. The palate was very sweet but filled with raisin and dried apricot notes. The dried apricot notes formed a solid backbone hiding the supporting acidity very well from the senses. Brilliant!
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