~The details~
Name: Chateau La Poujade
Year: 2014
Region: Cahors Appellation d'Origine Protegée
Grape/Cépage: L'auxerrois, Merlot
Alcohol: 13%
Serving Temp: 17C
Serving ideas: Duck breast, grilled foods, cheeses
Special notes: Bottled on the property. Produced using traditional methods.
What we did: Duck breast/magret de canard with orange sauce, spinach sauteed with garlic and shallots, and fresh baguette.
When I was researching, I was a bit intimidated by this wine and didn't think I'd like it all that much. I expected some scary, dark, puckeringly dry thing but I was very pleasantly surprised to find it was really, really yummy! We've had a couple fruity, acidic reds and we've had some more tannic, oaky wines as well. Both nice in their own ways, but each very different. This was everything turned up full blast! Dark, plummy, fruity, and velvety all at the same time. One of my favourite reds so far!
We were lucky enough to have friends over - who are better versed in wine than me - when we opened the bottle. It was so neat that they guessed it was a Chilean wine. That would be the Malbec coming through.
Speaking of Malbec, this tripped me up and took a few searches to sort out. Nowhere on the bottle is Malbec listed! It says Merlot and Auxerrois. So what's going on?
Well it turns out, Auxerrois is the name of a white grape except in this little area of Cahors where it is a name for Malbec (a.k.a. Côt). Mystery solved. Cheers!
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