ZOUK MAGAZINE (English Edition) ISSUE 3 | Page 33

33 Onglet Casa de la Ermita Petit Verdot 2007 CASA DE LA ERMITA - JUMILLA -Entails, salt, onions and sauce Bordelais. Simple, particular and it works. To me when cooks speak about entails, vacío etc, reminds me of the interior of the animal, a tasty piece, but in itself different from the rest. That is why I thought about the petit verdot of Casa de la Ermita, a wine that past a time describes a particular terroir and with some amazing capabilities. A very tasty wine, very mature, round. Usually I found these wines very immature [this is a 2007]. I remember that we served it when there was the first sommelier. Well, he was not the idyllic. Hmmm... How it respects the meat, how it accompanies. The acid taste of the wine, I like how even maintains this acidity, it is not candy. This acid is also present in the sauce and is doing well. Flavors are pronounced together to the headboard of the wine. Even now, that meat has cooled down a bit… Although I prefer the beef a bit cold, before than over well done. Ooh, now I have a problem! I don’t eat meat outside, only at home. Even my son has inherited it. He is now accustomed to eat Angus only -Precisely you are known as the meat cook… Let’s see , I am pleased, but I don’t like fame. Of course, I don’t want to have it bad either… I will try to make me undestand. I never wanted to have a lot of staff in the restaurant and that is why, when we arrived to a level where was complicated to go ahead, I said no way, mine wasn’t going to be a luxury restaurant. What I mean is that people come and eat well. If at a one point I do not come to fill up your cup, is because I prefer the food not to arrive cold. I have always had that idea.