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Weekly Organic Wine/Food pairing featuring L De Lagarde AOC Bordeaux

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This week's organic wine and food pairing features the L De Lagarde AOC Bordeaux. This excellent wine was a winner at the Green Wine Competition and scored 86 points from Wine Enthusiast. It also brought home a silver medal at the World Wine Championships, garnering a highly recommended score of 85 points. This wine is imported from SW France by Natural Merchants--one of North America's leading importers and distributors of fine natural and organic food and wine from Europe and the Mediterranean regions.

L De Lagarde AOC Bordeaux Tasting Notes:

This wine, made from a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc organic grapes, offers big, fruity flavors and pleasant, earthy notes. It showcases a rich black currant aroma with deep black cherry, plum and creamy herb flavors. This wine has a nice clean finish with earthy notes.

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Fermentation: In Stainless steel, temperature-controlled tanks

I recommend pairing this great wine with the following awesome recipe for a Braised Viennese Pork Roast. Enjoy!

BRAISED VIENNESE PORK ROAST 

1 (3-4 lb.) boneless pork loin roast
1/3 c. bacon drippings
1 1/2 c. chopped onion
1 1/2 c. chopped carrot
1 tsp. paprika
1 c. chicken broth
2 tbsp. flour
1/2 c. sour cream
1/4 tsp. caraway seed
1 tsp. chopped capers
2 tbsp. snipped parsley
 
In an oven-proof skillet brown roast in bacon drippings; set aside. In remaining drippings, cook onion and carrot until tender but not brown. Stir in paprika. Lay roast atop vegetables; add chicken broth. Bake, covered, in 350 degree oven for 1 1/2-2 hours or until meat thermometer registers 170 degrees. Remove roast to serving platter; keep warm.

Strain pan drippings; save vegetables for side dish. Measure pan drippings; skim off excess fat. Add water to drippings, if necessary to measure 1 1/3 cups. Return to skillet. Blend flour into sour cream; stir into liquid in pan. Cook and stir until thick and bubbly. Stir in caraway seed, capers and parsley. Serve with roast.

Enjoy with a glass of L De Lagarde AOC Bordeaux!

L De Lagarde AOC Bordeaux
L De Lagarde AOC Bordeaux
Photo credit: 
Natural Merchants

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Kimberly King is a freelance writer living in Longmont, CO with her husband and three children. Her first book, Hidden Treasures of Oregon's Wine Country was published in September 2009. She has written for Portland Oregon Magazine as well as several educational journals over the past 15 years.

Comments

  • Brent H. 1 year ago

    Kimberly, thanks for the review and yummy recipe. The L de Lagarde Bordeaux 2007 also received 85-points from Organic Wine Review: http://www.organicwinereview.com/l-de-lagarde-bordeaux-2007/

  • Stephanie Dolet, Vignobles Raymond 1 year ago

    Thank you Kimberly for this perfect match!
    A match we will for sure try at the vineyard.
    L de Lagarde was also chosen among the 100 Best Bordeaux distributed in the US and it is the only organically grown wine
    in the list.

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