I just love Copper River Salmon season. If I do say so myself, I prepared an amazing meal last night, featuring salmon with a dill cream sauce topped with crab. We paired it with the Clos Pegase Mitsuko's Vineyard Circle Reserve Chardonnay from 1998. Now, I am always a fan of this wine, but this one has been sitting around a little longer than I generally keep a Chard.
It doesn't seem to have been harmed much, if at all, by the long wait. I wasn't very optimistic at first. The color was a darker gold than I prefer to see. And on the first sip, it did seem to have lost too much of the fruit that made it charming when it was younger and seemed like it had become too oak-dominated. With the second sip, though, I started to notice other flavors that balanced out the oak very nicely; cream, butterscotch, and maybe a hint of a peachy flavor.
Definitely not your floral, fruity version of a Chardonnay, but very, very good. I wish I had more to enjoy!
