{"id":2074582,"date":"2023-05-26T09:30:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T08:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/westmidlands\/?p=2074582"},"modified":"2023-05-26T08:40:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T07:40:41","slug":"guest-review-pete-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/westmidlands\/news\/2074582-guest-review-pete-miller","title":{"rendered":"Guest review: ‘Burgundy? It’s a little further east than that’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pete Miller, head of corporate tax at Jerroms Miller, recalls his first taste of Ch\u00e2teau Musar<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"I wouldn’t consider myself a wine connoisseur, but I drink a reasonable amount of the stuff and I have a pretty good idea which wines I like. And, of course, I have some favourites. My absolute favourite wine of all time is Ch\u00e2teau Musar red from the Lebanon.<\/p>\n

I guess I was a little bit lucky with this one, because the first time I had some it was the 1995 vintage, which I now know to be one of the best in recent years.<\/p>\n

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Chateau Musar 1995<\/p><\/div>\n

Indeed, Ralph Hochar, a member of the wine-making family, told me that only the 1987 was better. To be fair, in a vertical tasting (where I met him, when he came to Leicester), I couldn\u2019t really tell the difference, but what do I know?!<\/p>\n

I had read about Ch\u00e2teau Musar in a number of articles, but I had not had the opportunity to try it until about twenty years ago. That opportunity arose on an evening out which, in hindsight, was rather magical! It was at a restaurant in Birmingham that was close to winning a Michelin star, with my wife (alas, no longer with us) and some very close friends, and we had all elected to have private tasting menu.<\/p>\n

Better still, the weather was glorious, so we were able to have pre-dinner drinks outside in the gardens. So to find that they had this wine that I had wanted to try was almost the icing on the cake.<\/p>\n

I won’t pretend I remember my first taste of the wine in vivid detail, but the signature taste of Ch\u00e2teau Musar, to me, is of a slightly acidic fruitiness, with an almost leathery or cigar smoke taste, and great, great length. I’m bringing it to mind even as I type! Both the nose and the taste of the wine are like no other wine I have drunk before or since.<\/p>\n

Perhaps my favourite bit of that magical evening was when one of the friends in our group, who trained as a pastry chef under Marco Pierre White, asked me which part of Burgundy the wine came from. I still remember laughing quietly and saying, \u201cit’s a little further east than that, Greg\u201d!<\/p>\n

I was talking about this article with a work colleague, who is also familiar with the wine. His comments suggested that some analogies with myself. He suggested, firstly, that Chateau Musar is quite full-bodied and, indeed, it is probably fair to say that I could lose a few pounds!<\/p>\n

Like many good wines, he noted that it improves with age, up to a point, which I decided to take as a compliment, although only up to a point!. And it has great legs, which is hard to understand, because he has never seen them!<\/p>\n

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TheBusinessDesk.com Wine Club, in partnership with Barrique Wines, pairs exclusive offers with enjoyable networking events – next up are Birmingham on June 14<\/a> then Leeds on June 28<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Find out more on our Wine Club site<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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