It’s a Monday evening, lots of left overs from a weekend of feasting, how to make them exciting? With a perfect wine of course.
The Wine: Paul Mas Estate Marsanne, from the Sud de France $
The Food: Some delicious left overs warmed and spiced
The Place: Our warm kitchen on another chilly night, will the warm weather ever come back? Yes!
We fell in love with Paul Mas wines last spring when we met 4th generation wine maker Jean-Claude Mas, since then we buy them often.
Marsanne is a rich white wine grape found mostly in southern France, and Switzerland and Savoie where it is called Ermitage. More recently you'll find it with a few adventuresome wine makers in Australia, California and Washington state. It is like Chardonnay in weight and structure, but often lacked fullness of fruit and aroma to be bottled alone thus it was often relegated to a being just a blending grape.
In the New World of wine making it is finding an exciting new life as a single grape wine as accomplished vinologists are letting it's beauty shine.
Our dinner was a creation of left overs from our Saturday dinner of a parsnip and yam hash, artisanal roasted ham, greens and fried eggs. Not bad alone but with the wine exciting.
The Domaines Paul Mas is “the ambassadors of Luxe Rural, a winestyle and a winelife signed by Jean-Claude Mas.” They say”our wines are made from our vineyards, coming from the best crus
in Languedoc and from the hillsides of the main valleys of the region.”
Under 10 brands Paul Mas produces great wine for every palate and price point.
We’ve loved the somewhat higher end, and hard to find, Paul Mas Estate Marsanne St Hilaire at places like Le Bateau Ivre in NY and the delicious Le Forge vineyard wine with its “scents of white flowers, pears and honeydew melon on the nose. A rich, fresh and mellow mouthfeel of pear and honey with a long, toasty finish ” which we enjoyed on this night.
These are two of the very exciting and affordable wines you can find from the Languedoc region of the Sud de France.
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