December 23, 2012 Dinner – Pork Roast with whipped potatoes and Brussels sprouts

December 23, 2012   Dinner – Pork Roast with whipped potatoes and Brussels sprouts

We shopped and cooked most of the day.  At around 3:30 we put a large pork roast into the oven at 325˚.  As dinner approached Elaine cut Brussels sprouts into halves, which we roasted in a ceramic baking dish in the oven and Suzette boiled and whipped potatoes with cream and butter and I went to the basement and fetched the last bottle of 2001 Guzmán Aldazabal Cosecha (marriage) that we had bought from our host at the bed and breakfast in Navaridas, the next hill south of the walled city of Laguardia in the central Alavesa section of the Rioja region of Spain in April 2011 from the Guzmán’s 50 year old vines.  The label says that the 2001 Cosecha was made from 30,000 kilograms of grapes selected from the Guzmáns’ La Valle, El Espino, and Ribarromeras vineyards, from those grapes they mixed and filled 33,000 bottles.  We drank bottle No. 29,589.  Again it was sedimented but incredibly smooth with no rough edges and with a great fruity flavor.

 Bon Appètit