The Wine Maker Series 8 - the Perfume Wine Tasting Lunch

In early this year, Ludovic Boucart and his father, Jean-Marie Boucart, the founder of the famous and award winning fruit winery of Belgium, Les Vin de Roisin, visited us and conducted a wine tasting session with us. 

Ludovic and his father, Jean-Marie, tasting their wines.

During the wine tasting event, all our participants were surprised by the fine quality of the fruit wines*(see note below) and their perfume nature, especially the cherry and strawberry wines: the aromas of the wines are like having a handful of wild and fresh cherries and strawberries.  It was not until then, that all of us realised that apart from grapes, other fruit could make good wines too.  Ludovic, the wine maker, also taught us why it was so difficult to make good fruit wines:

“our fruits (rhubarb, quince, cherry and strawberry) are selected with great care from the best producers and land soils, on the basis of the following selection criteria: ripeness, impeccable hygiene, aroma, colour, sugar content… Different fruit varieties are used, according to origin, type, and character, to produce a happy assemblage and improve the complexity of the wine.”

(Note: fruit wines are different from fruit flavoured liquors, where the fruit wines are made by fermentation methods like red wine and white wine.  Fruit flavoured liquors are made by adding fruit juices or flavours to liquors that are made from distillation method.)

Fruit wines from Les Vin de Roisin have won lots of wine awards and are used by many famous famous and luxuous restaurants in Belgium, France and England, like the Spoon.

On 15 Sept 2008 (Monday) afternoon, the professional and yet passionate Ludovic is visiting us again and we are going to have a wine tasting lunch in the Bravo Latata (French cuisine) in Soho with him. 

 If you wish to know more about the difficulties and secrets of making fine fruit wines from Ludovic, or wish to taste the rare and precious fruit wines form Belgium, or just wish to have a tasteful and cheerful “Mid-Autumn” wine and french lunch gathering, do join this joyful wine tasting lunch with us!

Here are the wines we are going to taste: 

• Les Vins de Roisin L’Effervescence de Roisin (Rhubarb Sparkling) (BE) 
  
  
• Les Vins de Roisin Vin de Rhubarbe 2002 (Rhubarbe) (BE) (Awards: Brussels Spirits Awards 2003 Gold Medal)
  Rhubarb   
  (Chinese name: 大黃, appearance like vegetable, but it’s a kind of fruit.)

• Les Vins de Roisin Vin de Coing 2002 (Quince) (BE)(Awards: Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2005: Silver Medal)
  Quince    
  (Chinese name: 太平洋溫桲, appearance like a lemon, taste like an apple.)

• Les Vins de Roisin Vin de Cerise 2002 (Cherry) (BE)(Awards: Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2005: Gold Medal)
  
   
• Les Vins de Roisin Vin de Fraise 2003 (Strawberry)(Awards: Brussels Spirits Awards 2003 Silver Medal)
  

And here is the lunch menu:

Appetisers 
French Rose Shrimp w Green Salad
&
Supreme Goose Live Pate
(gold medal, 100% goose liver) 

1st Main
French Mussels in White Wine Sause

2nd Main
Pan Fried Duck Breast with Dark Cherry Sause
or
Stewed Ossobucco in Red Wine Sauce

Dessert
Dessert Platter w Hand Made Rose Ice-cream & Chocolate Pudding

Coffee or Tea

The Wine Maker Series 8:
The Perfume Wine Tasting Lunch

For any enquiries, pls contact us.

Posted by sophie on September 9th, 2008 filed in 品酒聚會, Wine Tasting