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Meat nigiri
Ximénez Spinola Exceptional Harvest 2013
BODEGAS XIMÉNEZ SPINOLA - JEREZ
-An haute couture and simple dish at the
same time. You talk to me about it on the
phone and when you told me about white veal, beef and tomato, smoked eel and
foam of sea urchins, my first reaction was
surprise and the second one was joy… I
had come to a lovely pairing and I thought about Jerez wines. What do you think
about this wine?
Fucking rare!… It’s like a remembrance between dirty and addictive. Dirty, but
that you love it, and it reminds me a
palomino…
-How is your nigiri?
-Fucking rare, either!
-Meat…
- Yes meat that tastes like salmon!
-Then, what about this pairing?
Man, a glass of sherry is ideal. It
matches great with eel and each
time the winning sherries follow this line. Without going any further, in Diverxo,
where they make a cuisine that is “rare” are
betting on these wines of Jerez from a long
time, what is quite logic, since the current
cuisine is becoming increasingly more “tips”
of this kind. Look, I have set an example:
Look studs such as those I am cooking there,
I will give you a mollet egg with a truffled
mayonnaise… You see... We are