Truffle Dinner with Foster e Rocco Wines

September 13th was the last truffle dinner for the year held at Estelle as part of the Fringe Food Festival. The wines were all provided by Foster e Rocco.

Blogger, I’m so Hungree, wrote about the evening. Make sure you take some time to read the full article at I’m so Hungree, and browse through the fantastic food images of the night.

Here are a few snippets written about our wines.

• The wines tonight were all provided by Foster e Rocco from the Heathcote region and were all quite lovely. Their wines are made as naturally as possible, no pumps, natural yeast, unfiltered (or so my notes say), to keep the wines as natural as possible, with the aim of creating approachable, accessible wines that are also food friendly. I think the achieved their goal as I was much too drunk for a Monday night, but I certainly was not complaining at the time.
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• To start our night the boys from Foster e Rocco had presented a lovely 2011 Rose for us, which had only be bottled about two weeks prior to the event, so was very new. And very nice. I had 3 glasses. Maybe.
• The “Old school egg” was matched with the 2011 Foster e Rocco Nuovo Sangiovese, also a very new wine. My notes on the wine say, fine tannins, vigilant, light, transparent (in colour I’m sure I mean…), unoaked and….thorz? I have no idea. I was probably drunk.
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• Following that, the next course was also paired with a Sangiovese, however the 2010 one. The 2010 Foster e Rocco Sangiovese in comparison had spent 10 months in oak and was therefore much richer and earthier in palette. I warmed up to this wine very quickly as I think I’ve learnt to enjoy a heavier red from my dad’s love of Shiraz’s.
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• Rice pudding, puffed rice and beetroot with Western Australian black truffles. To match, a 2008 Monsieur Foster L’Imposteur Grenache…from France? We were all a little confused at first. At our table we speculated the ‘L’Imposteur’ indicated it was some sort of impostor and wasn’t really from France. But we were soon corrected as the wine maker explained that this batch of wine was produced from when he lived in Southern France. What a treat! This was the heaviest wine of the night (I think?), full of body, rich and berrylicious (in the wine drinking way).

Thanks to  I’m so Hungree.