Dinner with Loire Wines

Tonight, I sipped on a bit of 2005 Luneau-Papin while preparing dinner, which I duly followed with the left-overs of the 2005 Bernard Baudry Chinon "Les Grezeaux" while eating a pan-fried grass-fed NY Strip steak with a nice port wine reduction sauce.

The Luneau was singing as it has been, and the Baudry went terrifically well with the steak. The saltiness of the steak crust was a great complement to the minerality, structure, and iodine notes of the Chinon. What a great pairing.

I am so excited about Loire wine, it's hard to put into words. I'll try to drink a non-Loire wine this week, but it'll be tough to break this Loire habit.