Having tasted a really good red at Llaethlliw, we were ready to check if the Red Kite at Kerry Vale was ready yet! Geoff had told us it was nearly ready on our visit last time. And it is already on the website so we decided we had to go and try! If you remember this too had been oaked so we were eager to try it particularly as we had just sampled arguably the best red so far!
Again poor little Sassy had to stay at home - the weather not clement, storm Abigail being about, and anyway she was in the garage having a pre-winter check.
We had a wonderful lunch at Kerry Vale chatting to June Ferguson. The parsnip and honey soup was delicious so she shared the recipe! And accompanied the lunch with Red Kite Red! An oaked Rondo. We liked it very much - the oak tannins definitely adding to the fruitiness really well. Lovely.
So bottles were taken home and further samplings were needed!
What an interesting task we have given ourselves! We tasted the Llaethliw and the Red Kite. It is so hard to judge but then it is a subjective choice - in this case, Chris preferred the Llaethlliw and my first preference was the Red Kite. Maybe tomorrow it may change.....and we haven't done this tasting comparison yet with the Poldoon and the Hush Heath.
Many more to try too so which will be our favourite??
No comments:
Post a Comment