Naturliga viner?!?

Naturliga viner, vad är det? Jag tycker att det börjar bli lite väl hysteriskt med alla vin människor som serverar vad dom kallar naturliga viner.

Jag tycker inte heller om manipulerade, till fixade och översvavlade viner som filtreras för mycket, jag gillar också iden om att man ska göra vin på ett naturligt sätt som är skonsamt mot miljö och människor, jag har inget alls emot detta men när man börjar servera rent ut sagt skit viner för dyra pengar bara för att någon skriver naturligt på det så blir jag ilsk.

Är Latour, Margaux och Gajas viner naturliga? Självklart är dom det men inte fan håller dom på med att marknadsföra detta fenomen, dom är precis som alla seriösa vinmakare stolta över sina produkter och gör det bästa man kan.

Smaken på det vi dricker måste väl i första hand handla om att det är gott och välgjort eller har jag helt fel? Jag tar gärna emot synpunkter på dragan@unictaste.se

Rock on babe

Michelin 2 star dinner

Hans Välimäki with his Chez Dominique is the only 2 Michelin star restaurant in Helsinki Finland, we where fortunate to share a great experience when he last night did a magnificent dinner at the Grand Hotel in Lund Sweden.

I meet this creative chef many years ago when we both was attending a jury for a fish competition and the most memorable moment that day was that Hans received  his first star that day. How exiting was that!

The pressure on him and his staff is tremendously and he is working with full steam to be the first in Scandinavia who will receive the third star ‘’’  

So how was the food? Great with a nice twist of Japanese flavours and a lot of personality and I will show you some pictures of the dishes and here are the menu.

Champagnes from Moet, to be or not to be is the question.

What to say about the champagnes of Moet & Chandon? First of all, I really don’t like them at all, actually non of the wines that they produce ( very old vintages is different) I have tried so many times to understand what the winemakers are doing when they do the assemblage for the different cuvees and I simply dong get it and always try to skip using Moet’s wines on my tastings or I use them to show some bad examples of how champagne are supposed not to be, but at the same time I know that many people especially in the US love the Moet and symbolise champagne with that brand, everything is effective marketing like the latest small film with Scarlett Johansen as a Moet muse. Nice production by the way.

On my latest visit to Epernay I forced my self to enter the Moet HQ for a private tasting of the wines, the old tasting room from the Napoleon days is magnificent and amazing, the quiet and efficient private sommelier was very nice.

Reflection: I still do not like the wines produced by Moet but I will try them again.

Dragan Unic.

Two star experience tonight

Chef-patron Hans Välimäki has been flying the flag for Finland's cuisine since 1998 at Chez Dominique, regularly voted the country's best restaurant for its innovative cooking based around Nordic and French flavours.

The idea behind Välimäki's cooking is to surprise by providing an experience unlike any other restaurant – an act he achieves through offering mystery menus where the diner places their trust at his mercy. It's a gamble well worth taking, we will meet up with him tonight and try his surprise at least 9 course meny.

I will post coments and pictures tomorrow.

regards from the eaven fatter pig.