Dinner - Crab Cakes and White Wine

This Friday, my friends and I got together for a nice wine dinner.  Once again, for me this fell on a Friday during Lent, so no meat.

For this occasion, Emily made crab cakes as our main dish.

I provided the stir-fry vegetables.  This was quite the experiment for me.  Yes, from my last dinner you can see I am pretty much a professional chef, but stir-fry was a first for me.  I sautéed the veggies in vegetable oil and olive oil.

                                         

I think they turned out very well.  We were all hard at work in the kitchen.

As the hostess, I provided some nice gluten-free appetizers for my guests.  And we all brought a bottle of wine to share.

As dinner was almost ready it was time to open our first bottle of wine.  An Angel Chardonnay from Chateau Morrisette.  I was able to pull the wrapping off just like we learned in class!    It is described as a Semi-Dry Table wine; perfect for seafood!

Once the wine was poured it was time for dinner!  For our whole meal we had: crab cakes, zucchini pasta, tomatoes with cheese, quinoa, and stir-fry veggies.

We tasted the wine before and while eating.  As for the nose, it had a oaky, honeydewish aroma.  The taste before eating was peachy, tart, and pineappley.  Once we started eating however, the alcohol in the wine became much more prominent and much sweeter.  It is remarkable how a few bites of food can change the taste of a wine.

The next wine we tried with dinner was a Hogue Riesling.  This gave off a scent of surf board wax and was also very fruity and sweet.  We ate so fast that we were still working on finishing this wine when it was dessert time.

For dessert, we had fruit to dip into chocolate.  This Riesling was by far my favorite wine I have had in quite a while.  However, when it came to drinking this while eating chocolate, everything changed.  It left an awful taste in my mouth, too much sweetness at one time.

We had a third wine to try with dinner, however, like I said we ate too fast and finished all the food before we could get around to it.  Overall, these wines went very nicely with dinner.  This kind of dinner reminded me of a nice summer day eating on the porch, even though it was a chilly day in Blacksburg.  My friends and I had a great time making dinner and trying wines.