Flashlight Fried Chicken, Biodynamic Gamay, and Freaky Grilled Quail

(Grilled Quail, and 2007 Clos Roche Blanche Gamay)


(Szechuan "Nashville Hot Chicken" and 2001 Dirler Riesling)
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The Birds were fried outside by flashlight so as not to fill the kitchen with that dirty south, fry-stank. 

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Grilled quails served up first (in daylight) and were paired with the Gamay.

2007 Clos Roche Blanche Gamay
(France, Loire Valley, Touraine)  $15-$20.  Louis Dressner Import
Clean, mean, and delivers, cranberry, raspberry, pepper, and earth.  This wine needs to open up (60+min), but when it does, textbook delicious.  Someone please distribute this in GA!

Though a light bodied wine, this was actually too big for the quail, and we swapped it out for some white Burgundy.  This stuff is the pure goodness...

2006 Henri Perrusset Macon Villages
(France, Burgundy, Maconnais, Macon-Villages) Chardonnay, $15-$20, Kermit Lynch Import
Straight up citrus and tree fruit-  full bodied, like a dose of unsweet lemon candy, and a slightly bitter finish. 

The finish was a bit off kilter at first, but once opened (45min) this rounded out really nice.  It killed it with the Quail- Just enough acid, and fruit, not overpowered by the grilled parts, and good quaffin' while eatin' on a hot porch.

With the spicy, fried birds we needed some residual sugar and acid to work with the heat--

2001 Dirler-Cade Riesling Kessler
(France, Alsace, Guebwiller, Alsace Grand Cru AOC)  Riesling.  Approx $40, Robert Chadderdon Selections.)
Nose of mango, rock, and diesel.  Full bodied, rockin' acids, and a long finish.  I like this stuff a lot.   A lot. A lot.

This rocks with the chicken, straight up.

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A great night with killer food and wine, in the dirty south!

(Huge thanks to Chez Rowdy for doing the cooking, and taking the sick pics!)