The Dos Besos red wine, made out of 85 per cent Tempranillo and 15 per cent Syrah, priced under $15, from the Spanish region of La Mancha in Central Spain, is produced by the Canatarero Morales family. This family owns the Bodega Fontana, with 30 years of experience in wine making.
The 500-hectare estate stretches 30 kms in length, between the provinces of Cuenca and Toledo.
The Dos Besos (meaning two kisses) is an example of the synergy created by two almost opposing varietals. The tannins are smooth, with fruity aromas of cherries, plum, strawberry and raspberry and a touch of vanila, giving the mouthfeel a nice finish.
A fresh pasta linguini with an Alfredo sauce, mushrooms and sliced Italian sausage is a quick and easy to make recipe that matches the above red wineor a white wine such as the Sauvignon Blanc presented following this recipe.
We will require 59 grams of fresh pasta per per serving.A whole package at your supermarket will feed four.
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons of butter
1 tablespoon of canola oil
1 tablespoon of Bisto in a powdered form
4 mild Italian sausages
200 gr of fresh mushrooms, sliced
1/2 cup of thick cream
1/2 cup of Parmeggiano grated cheese
salt and pepper.
Boil water in a large pot with salt.
Place the linguini into the boiling water for five minutes, stirring frequently to prevent sticking.
In a skillet, melt the butter under low heat, add the mushrooms and cook for five minutes.
Remove from heat and keep warm.
Add the canola oil in the skillet and the sliced sausages, and cook at medium to high heat for six minutes, stirring well.
Add the cream, the parmeggiano cheese and the bisto, mix and reduce. Add the pepper, adjust the seasonning and serve on top of the linguini.
The Sauvignon Blanc from the Malborough area in the northeastern tip of New Zealand has astonished the world by its quality.
Among the various brands of Sauvignon Blanc, the No. 8 Wire comes from the gauge of wire used in vineyard fences and treillis. It is a special blend only available to the Whitefishgroup, importer of fine wines from B.C.
Produced in steel tanks, it offers a nose of asparagus, capsicum, melon and passion fruit, while flavours of gooseberry, nettle and grapefruit are present in the mouth.
The acidity balances well with the fruitiness this young wine exhibits all along. With its 14 per cent alcohol level, it has a good structured bodyand a lingering aftertaste.
