schiller-wine: May 2019

Friday, May 31, 2019

Reminder: Ombiasy Wine Tour to Bordeaux: September 03 - September 12, 2019

Picture: Tour, Barrel Tasting and Family Dinner with Stefan and Heike Paeffgen, Château Le Reysse and Château Lassus, Vignobles Paeffgen, Appellation Médoc - Bordeaux Tour by ombiasy WineTours 2017, France

Dear friends of good wine,

I wish all of you a wonderful Memorial Day weekend with family and friends and lots of good wines to share.

This is a reminder that there is only 1 (ONE!) room (single or double occupancy) left for the wine tour to Bordeaux in September. As you know I only travel with a small group: we are 12 people max including my husband and myself. Participation is on first come first serve basis.

If you like wine and food pairings, this is the tour for you. We will not only taste gorgeous Bordeaux wines, we will also have the privilege to enjoy many meals perfectly paired with the respective Châteaux wines right at the Châteaux with the owner / manager / winemaker.

Picture: Tour, Tasting and Lunch at Château Pichon-Longueville-Baron in Pauillac. See: Wine-Pairing Lunch at Château Pichon Longueville Baron in Pauillac - Bordeaux Tour by ombiasy WineTours 2017 France

Besides doing Châteaux hopping, I will also show you other aspects of “Bordeaux” that the usual wine tours to the Bordelais do not do:

we will be introduced to the “Place de Bordeaux” buying and selling system unique in Bordeaux by visiting a négociant house, a wine merchant;

we will visit a cooper to see from A to Z how a barrique is being made;

we go to the basin d’Arcachon to see how an oyster is raised - and of course we will taste the oysters;

we will experience the big bodies of water so important for the Bordeaux climate: the mighty Gironde estuary and the Atlantic ocean;

instead of sitting for 2 -3 hours in traffic every day going back and forth to Bordeaux city we will travel around, spending nights in the heart of the Left Bank in Pauillac and in the heart of the Right Bank in Saint-Émilion to “feel” the vineyards;

and of course we will spend some time in the vibrant, hip, cultural, cool city of Bordeaux.

Our Châteaux tour takes us to: Sauternes, Pessac-Léognan, Margaux, Saint-Julien, Pauillac, Saint-Estèphe, Médoc, Saint-Emilion, Pomerol, Blaye. We will visit well-known classified Châteaux, classified under the radar Châteaux, and so-called “Petits-Châteaux” producing phenomenal wines.

This tour is basically a wine seminar on the ground: you will get a thorough understanding what “Bordeaux” is all about - and of course the tour is also lots of laughter and fun.

You find the detailed itinerary here:

https://ombiasypr.com/index.php/wine-tours/bordeaux/bordeaux-itinerary.

You can sign up for the tour on my website: https://ombiasypr.com/index.php/wine-tours/bordeaux/bordeaux-registration

Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have further questions. I am more than happy to answer all your queries.

CHEERS
Annette

Hello,

I wanted to pass on Annette’s Schiller’s notice of one hotel room opening for September Bordeaux Wine Tour. For those of us who have done this Bordeaux tour with Annette we would give it “a 15 on a scale of 1-10!). If interested (or know someone who may be interested) you should call her IMMEDIATELY.

Regards,

Bruce and Vicki

BTW: Vicki and I leave on a Piedmont Wine Tour with Todd Ross in 3 weeks

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Outstanding Dinner at Gustav - 1 Star Michelin - in Frankfurt, Germany, with Chef Jochim Busch

Pictures: Outstanding Dinner at Gustav - 1-star Michelin - in Frankfurt, Germany, with Chef Jochim Busch

elizabethonfood.com: Chef Jochim Busch delivers playful but detailed cooking with imaginative flavour and texture pairings. (...) So, if you’re in Frankfurt and looking to get a taste of German “bistronomie”, Gustav would be an excellent choice.

Fienhold Biss: To put it in a nutshell: this is Frankfurt’s most delightful new restaurant in recent years.

Zeit Magazin: Our discoveries of the week: trout with fennel pollen, cauliflower with couscous. Restaurant Gustav in Frankfurt’s Westend district offers regional fare with international flair.

Guide Michelin Deutschland 2018: High-quality, stylish, straightforward. The modern style of the restaurant is reflected also in the cuisine and especially has one thing: its own signature. The dishes are pleasantly reduced with a beautiful interaction of contrasts and textures.

There are currently 9 Michelin-starred restaurants in Frankfurt/ Germany, all with 1 star, except for Restaurant Lafleur, which has 2 stars.

Restaurant Lafleur - Chef: Andreas Krolik
Tiger-Gourmetrestaurant - Chef: Coskun Yurdakul
Villa Merton - Chef: André Großfeld
Restaurant Gustav - Chef: Jochim Busch
Carmelo Greco - Chef: Carmelo Greco
Seven Swans - Chef: Jan Hoffmann
Erno's Bistro - Chef: Valéry Mathis
Français - Chef: Patrick Bittner
Weinsinn - Chef: Julian Stowasser

2 of the 9 Michelin-starred restaurants are owned and run by the young, charming couple (in life and business) Milica Trajkovska Scheiber und Matthias Scheiber: She runs Gustav and he runs Weinsinn.

About a year or so ago, Annette Schiller and I had our monthly Frankfurt gourmet group dinner at Matthias Scheiber's Weinsinn: Phantastic Dinner at the "New" Weinsinn in Frankfurt, Germany

This time, in May 2019, we met at Milica Trajkovska Scheiber's Gustav.

Both dinners were most impressive experiences at the highest level, in terms of the food (clearly at the 1-star Michelin level), the wines (broad, German-dominated selection) and the service (with Gustav a bit more relaxed, Bistro-style than Weinsinn).

Pictures: Outstanding Dinner at Gustav - 1-star Michelin - in Frankfurt, Germany, with Chef Jochim Busch

Restaurant Gustav

Milica Trajkovska Scheiber: Forms and colours inspired by Bauhaus. Unconventional works by young Frankfurt artists. An atmosphere that combines relaxation with intense concentration. Cuisine that dispenses with flashy effects and instead embraces precise artisanry, finely harmonised nuances and meticulous attention to detail ... Restaurant Gustav in Frankfurt’s Westend district offers a new, subtle form of avant-garde.

Gustav is the second restaurant run by Frankfurt-based restaurateurs Milica Trajkovska Scheiber and Matthias Scheiber, after ‘Weinsinn’ (opened in 2009), and has been awarded a Michelin star.

Pictures: Outstanding Dinner at Gustav - 1-star Michelin - in Frankfurt, Germany, with Chef Jochim Busch

Head Chef Jochim Busch

Head Chef Jochim Busch, Gault & Millau’s ‘discovery of the year’ in 2016, takes his inspiration from rediscovering regional cuisine. His expeditions take him to cultural landscapes as varied as the Rheingau and the Rhön Mountains, the Odenwald and the Wetterau, as well as to an astonishing variety of green spaces and gardens within the city limits. Sourcing products locally isn’t an end in itself for Busch; they also have to be fresh and authentic. Accordingly, he sees a close link between seasonal and regional. After all, truly understanding your home region means knowing how it changes with the seasons too.

Pictures: Chef Jochim Busch - Cooking, Plating and Serving

Menu

The regularly changing dishes on the evening menu can be combined into four, five or six courses. for Euro 80/90/100.

On Fridays the restaurant also opens fur lunch, offering a daily menue with two to five courses (40 to 60 Euro).

There are around 200 entries in the wine list, including many naturally aged wines. All of the wines come from Europe, with around half originating in Germany.

The Food: 6 Courses

We all took 6 courses - 2 starters, 2 intermediate courses, 1 main course and cheese or dessert.

Greeting from the Chef

Starters

Kohlrabi – young and matured
Spinach cream, buttermilk, clover and rapeseed

Raw marinated salmon trout
Spruce, smoked fish cream, apple and salt cucumber water

Intermediate courses

Fried catfish liver
Dwarf quince emulsion, Sweet Cicely and pea shrub

Breast and leg of the Riedgockel (chicken)
Alloyed chicken broth, green asparagus and celery flavors

Main courses

Grilled white asparagus
Raspberry vinegar, brewer's yeast, roasted flaxseed and wild garlic hollandaise

Medium roasted and stewed knuckle of venison
in apfekraut glazed, turnip, elderflower and leek

Cheese

Hungener Gold - raw milk cheese from the cow, aged for 24 months
Pumpkin seed, wheat patties and radicchio

Dessert

Schmand ice cream
Wood and fruit of blackcurrant, green sauce and yolk

Coffee/ tea

The Wines: 12 Bottles

The 9 of us had 12 bottles of wine. The Euro prices are indicated.

BurkhardtSchür Blanc de Noirs Brut 58

Kühn 2014 Hendelberg Riesling trocken MAGNUM 90

Nikolaihof 2010 Grüner Veltliner Federspiel „Im Weingebirge“ 58

Azienda Agricola Cos Sicilia 2017 Cos Ramì

Château Clos Puy Arnaud 2007 Côtes de Castillon 70

Domaine Brusset 2011 Gigondas „Les Hauts de Montmirail“ 68

Rebholz 2014 Chardonnay R 72

Champagner Pierre Baillette Le Village

Château L’ Arrosée 2003 Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 99

Domaine André et Mireille TissotW 2015 Chardonnay „Les Graviers“ 75

Bernhard Huber W 2016 Grauer Burgunder trocken 42

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Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Lunch at Le Carmin (1 Star Michelin) in Beaune – Bourgogne (and Champagne) Tour by ombiasy WineTours 2018, France

Pictures: Lunch at Le Carmin (1 Michelin Star) in Beaune

There are currently (Michelin Guide 2019) 4 Michelin-starred restaurants (all one star) in Beaune:

Le Carmin
Le Jardin des Remparts
Loiseau des Vignes
Le Bénaton

We had lunch at Le Carmin.

In the heart of Beaune, near the Halles de Beaune and the Hospices, the Chef Christophe Quéant and his team welcome you to the gourmet restaurant Carmin. With its Zen setting that's both light and simple, ideal for showcasing the dishes, the Carmin offers a refined and understated cuisine, classic with a modern twist, based on the selection and quality of its products. A tasty cuisine, uncontrived, to match what the Chef discovers in the market: a "tailor-made" menu. As for its cellar, the Carmin offers a fine selection of wines, including 200 different organic wines, natural or integrated.

Pictures: Chef Christophe Quéant

Michelin 1 étoile

Sur cette place Carnot toute proche de l'Hôtel-Dieu, un vivifiant Carmin ! Le chef, Christophe Quéant, met à profit son expérience pour réaliser de très bons plats au goût du jour, tout en simplicité et en franchise. Avec, en prime, un très bon rapport plaisir-prix.

Gault Millau 14/20

Dans le centre, l’adresse de Christophe Quéant est l’un de ces rendez-vous connus et appréciés, autant des locaux que des gens de passage. Ambiance actuelle pour cette maison, où la région est revisitée avec beaucoup de gourmandise : salade de homard, sucrine et fenouil sauce romesco, sole meunière, côte de veau et tarte fine aux oignons et girolles, soufflé à la framboise. Bonne sélection en cave.