What Was Your Most Recent Bottle of Wine?

[vinteuil]

Today I shall start on my Affiné au Chablis and I wanted a wine to go with that and, preferably, with the preceding sweet potato and kimchi (on a bed of watercress). Not actually a "Tesco finest" but a Tesco Petit Chablis 2023 seemed worth a go (£12). Apparently it's also drunk as an aperitif (though at 12.5% abv I woldn't rate that as a 'weaker' alcohol content as some say).

... the p'tit chablis sounds nice

The "sweet potato and kimchi (on a bed of watercress)" sounds absolutely ghastly, combining three of my greatest loathings in the world of food

Hope you enjoyed it...

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[smittims]

I've just been enjoying a Californian Cabernet Sauvignon from ALDI. I can' t remember the price but it's called 'Beachfront' and tastes 'peachy' compared with my usual Chilean CabSauv.

[french frank]

... the p'tit chablis sounds nice

It was light and delicious and went well with the cheese and hawthorn jelly, all subtle tastes. The cheese had been left out of the fridge for a day and was perfect.

.The "sweet potato and kimchi (on a bed of watercress)" sounds absolutely ghastly, combining three of my greatest loathings in the world of food

As I like and value all three (sweet potato could be substituted for summat else starchy) it was fine. Not sure that the kimchi was so good before the cheese, but fermented vegetables, pickles &c are much savoured round by 'ere. As each course's dishes are washed up and put away (or reused) during the meal, there was a suitable lapse before the cheese appeared. And with the Petit Chablis pleasantly sluiced around in the mouth the taste of kimchi was largely washed away.

.Hope you enjoyed it...

Thank you -I did (How can you dislike sweet potato? Or watercress? Kimchi, I'll grant you, is not to everyone's liking).

[Barbirollians]

Sweet potato is vile . Kimchi ok -watercress a delight .

[hmvman]

Another vote for sweet potato here, I find it a tasty and versatile vegetable. Regarding wine abv, I think wine has generally become more alcoholic in recent years. 11 or 12 percent used to be quite common but now whites are commonly up to 12.5 to 13 percent and reds 14,14.5 or even 15.

[french frank]

Sweet potato is vile .

Only man is vile... . I only have it, pref. slightly al dente, stuffed with kimchi so I'm not sure what there is to dislike. It's pretty bland so absorbs other tastes.

But anyway the Petit Chablis from the Union des Viticulteurs de Chablis was quaffable and the Tesco price pretty good too. French wines have tended to have a higher alcohol content than either Italian or Spanish. hmvm - Lirac certainly can come inat 15%. I expected the Sauternes at 13% to be a bit higher for a dessert wine.

I'm happy enough with this comparison between Chablis and Petit Chablis, though it depends how much you want to spend.

[HighlandDougie]

These are a bit of a faff but worth the trouble IMUV:

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/nov/28/felicity-cloakes-perfect-sweet-potato-fries-recipe

And might go quite well with Kimchi (every meal when I was in South Korea had liberal amounts of it to hand - plus pickled turnip - yum!). Not so sure about watercress, though. And 14 per cent whites are, alas, becoming more common (headache central). I was greatly cheered by Vints's post this morning - "the horror, the horror!" - but slightly mystified by FF's food combination unless it was either (a) truly inspired; or (b) what happened to be to hand. The latter - as in what's in the fridge and needs to be used up - can, as my tarte for Sunday lunch proved to be the case for me, very unharmonious. Pancetta, leeks, roast peppers, feta - vile.

[french frank]

but slightly mystified by FF's food combination unless it was either (a) truly inspired; or (b) what happened to be to hand.

Sweet potato stuffed with kimchi is A Thing. The watercress was bought to go beneath a beetroot and orange salad but I decided it was time to eat the sweet potato instead as I'd had it for a while. I needed some dark green and I'd used up the kale in a kale farinata yesterday. As usual, the farinata was a disaster but that didn't mean it wasn't edible. Half is left in the fridge and may be eaten tomorrow. With watercress and red pepper. May finish the Tesco Mucho Más red with it. And maybe lyonnaise potatoes. It's very multi-cultural here.

Add: I see I could have added the sweet potato to the kale farninata (baked variety, not soup).

[Barbirollians]

Only man is vile... . I only have it, pref. slightly al dente, stuffed with kimchi so I'm not sure what there is to dislike. It's pretty bland so absorbs other tastes.

But anyway the Petit Chablis from the Union des Viticulteurs de Chablis was quaffable and the Tesco price pretty good too. French wines have tended to have a higher alcohol content than either Italian or Spanish. hmvm - Lirac certainly can come inat 15%. I expected the Sauternes at 13% to be a bit higher for a dessert wine.

I'm happy enough with this comparison between Chablis and Petit Chablis, though it depends how much you want to spend.

Last week Tesco’s Chablis was reduced to £11 with a Clubcard and if you bought 6 - another 25% off .

I cannot stand sweet root vegetables - sweet potato is like baby food when puréed and otherwise like a posh version of the egregious swede .