Burgundy wine with Cheese

Eight familiar cheeses were paired against a vintage red wine from Burgundy, a 1983 Santenay of Joseph Drouhin brought out from Yats Wine Cellars Clark Philippines. This is the result of the pairing.

The jury is out and here is the verdict of the tasting of the 1983 Santenay J Drouhin against these eight cheese:

Asiago (Young): OK, but no real synergy here, although it is passable, certainly not a successful pairing.
Edam: This was not exactly a clash but the pairing was less than acceptable.
Saint Paulin: nice at the offset but leaves a bitterness at the finish, not an acceptable pairing
Gouda: Not bad, acceptable albeit in a neutral sort of way, doesn’t clash but doesn’t tango either.
Gruyere: Excellent pairing, wine makes the Gruyere feels rounder in the mouth, less sharp; cheese makes the wine sweeter, rounder and less tart in the in finish. Synergy achieved here.
Provolone Canale Tonnalhe: clashed badly, at each other’s throat, resulting in a terrible finish of dried leaf, bad left-over tea
Fontina: it works in the offset but the synergy cannot make it through the finish, leaving a tart after taste, making the wine feel older and more feeble than it really is.

Yats also operates a fine-dining wine restaurant called Yats Restaruant and Wine Bar in Clark Philippines www.YatsRestaurant.com. It is located inside the Mimosa Leisure Estate which also houses a 36-hole championship golf club called Mimosa Golf, as well as a casino. Clark is packed with action, so wine shopping aside, there are other meaningful things to spend your time. Yats Restaurant can cook up all sorts of gourmet meals. The chef is from London and the maitre ‘d is from Holland. This is certainly an international outfit.

To get more information about Clark Wine Center or other establishments mentioned here, email Wine@Yats-International.com. The trip from Shanghai is not exactly short but with hundreds of tourists heading down there with plans to purchase vintage wines to bring home, there’s got to be some magic in that 2-storey wine shop.

Public wine tastings are held from time to time in Clark and sometimes in Manila. Tickets range from p500 to p1500 for these themed events that are professionally run -no wine merchants sponsorship, pushy salesmen or tacky banners to ruin the evening. Each ticket contains a certain number of stubs that you can redeem for a tasting pour of a wine of your choice among those on a line-up. Very often, the lineup contains wines that are quite old and expensive. This makes YATS Wine Tasting events the most cost-effective venue to explore new options and expand our knowledge of wine through first-hand encounters.

Wine Seminars have been conducted in the past and may be offered from time to time. These seminars deal with intermediate to advanced subject matters that are aimed at providing useful and practical knowledge for the wine enthusiasts. Topics are focused and treatment, in depth. Most seminars include a guided tasting session after the lecture. This adds “lab” experience to knowledge acquired.

Wine-paired dinners are organized either at Y A T S Restaurant in Clark or in collaboration with other restaurants and organizers. Unlike wine dinners organized by a wine merchant, the wines in Yats wine dinners are not confined to a narrow range of selections. Yats Wine Shops do not need to “push” a narrow range of products like Chilean or Australian wines for example.

Sister company Y A T S Restaurant and Wine Lounge is one of most wine-sensitive fine-dining establishments in Asia. B Y O (Bring Your Own) Wine evenings occur regularly for wine enthusiasts to enjoy their recent finds over a gourmet meal specially crafted to be wine friendly. The wine list of YATS Restaurant is equally impressive and satisfying to the hard-to-please. Mark-up is small and that makes it the friendliest wine restaurant in Asia.

Despite all that, Yats is committed to stay ahead of the growth of the market. Knowing full well that our clients are becoming increasingly well versed in wines, our products and services have to grow at a faster pace so that the market will never outgrow us as a wine and a service provider.Clark Wine Center
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