New recipes, June 1, 2011

Tonight's new recipes were Grilled Pork Chops with Tomatillo Salsa and tortillas, and Grilled Nectarines with Feta on a lettuce salad with lemon tarragon vinaigrette. Epicurious.com was the source of both recipes, and I riffed the salad. Both were nice dishes, thought there wasn't a whole lot they had in common.

The wine: La Cartuja Priorat 2007, a garnacha based wine, with some oak. This worked pretty well with both. There is some oak in the wine, and a little spiciness in the salsa, but the fruitiness in the wine kept everything in balance. The nectarines were very sweet, with a nice balance from the feta. The fruit brought out a dried fruit, almost prune character in the wine, and the wine really accentuated the tarragon. Fun experiment!!