Retro never goes out of fashion! Particularly not when inviting friends that started in the restaurant business in the 80:s. Thus retro it was starting with a prawn cocktail please note the twisted cucumbers! That’s how we used to do it! Main course a classic decadent dish served at the Nobel dinner in 1974 - Filet de bœuf Charlemagne meaning a roasted filet tranched and gratinated with morel sauce + bearnaise sauce (omg for cholesterol), potato cake and bacon wrapped haricots verts à la 80:s! 2008 Taittinger drinking splendidly starting to show a five toast, lovely freshness slightly reminiscent of Comtes de Champagne even if not the same power and length. 2002 Winston Churchill still appearing youthful with broad and ripe Pinot flavours and excellent purity. 1987 Georg Breuer Riesling Kabinett looking old but aromatically very pure with mature complexity and a lovely freshness. 2000 Beaucastel - a very complete, sophisticated, finely spicy and superb example. 1994 Caymus Special Selection powerful and ripe with lovely sweet fruit and perfect maturity. 2001 Haut-Condissas tasting this once again I have to say it’s one of the most underrated wines from Bordeaux, blind tasting this next to the big boys, it would certainly appear in the top, a lovely dense and complex example today. #sommelierproblems #asisomms #sommlifestyle #sommelierlife #sommelier #homecomingishomecooking #zefrenchchef #simplecooking @champagnepolroger @champagnetaittinger #georgbreuer @familleperrin #chateaudebeaucastel #caymusspecialselection @guyon_art_et_vins ...

I suppose a lot of people don’t think highly of Aligoté. Fresh, aperitif, light for sure. However, as much as we love to talk about terroir, the effort and ambition of the producer is the most important thing. Thus this 2017 Aligoté from Comte Armand is a brilliant example with citrus zest, pale fruit, fresh nuts, sleek yet flavour intense with great nerve and serious finish. A great partner for my simple home cooking - in this case a poached loin of haddock on spinach with a buttered shellfish broth, shrimps and mussels. Rustic home cooking at its best. #cookingathome #simplehomecooking #homecomingishomecooking #husmanskost #zefrenchchef #comtearmand #bourgognealigoté #bourgogne #cotedebeaune #wine #winelover #sommelier #sommelierproblems #asisomms #sommelierlife #sommlifestyle #anotherharddayatwork ...

Another day at home, another day of simple home cooking. Loin of Skrei with Brussels sprouts and crispy lardons with a touch of cream and coarse mustard... paired with an excellent 2017 Saint-Aubin from Domaine Fabien Coche. It certainly offers the freshness of the vintage with lovely purity and bite. Textured with ripe citrus, hazelnut and fresh butter notes and a substantial finish. Great white Burgundy still in the somewhat affordable category. #sommelierproblems #sommelierlife #sommlifestyle #asisomms #simplehomecooking #simplecooking #homecomingishomecooking #husmanskost #skrei #saintaubin #burgundy #cotedor #chardonnay #terroir #precision #classicgastronomy #finewine ...

Another day another spontaneous luncheon. Butter poached loin of haddock with soft boiled egg, horseradish and shrimps with grilled Savoy cabbage... heathy, tasty and warming. Served with one of my favourite fresh everyday quaffs - Alvarinho Contacto from the great Anselmo Mendes. Pure and crisp with ripe citrus, bright stone fruits, salivating palate with fine texture and a long saline finish. Very rewarding with my simple home cooking. #homecooking #homecomingishomecooking #simplecooking #husmanskost #alvarinho #vinhoverde #winesofportugal #terroir #portugal #sommelier #sommelierproblems #asisomms #sommlife #wine #winelover. @anselmomendesvinhos ...

Poulet aux morilles + Puligny 1er cru Pucelles = ❤️ Such a lovely and simple dish where quality of ingredients is more important than advanced techniques. Secondly a good wine is essential! Even if the 2017 Puligny 1er Cru Les Pucelles from Marc Morey is still really tight and youthful with a splendid future ahead of it, it would be difficult to call it anything but bloody splendid! Pure, precise, sleek but powerful with youthful innocent fruit a fine toast and a very long concentrated finish. Such a lovely match for classic French cuisine! #terroirgrondal #zefrenchchef #simplehomecooking #homecomingishomecooking #cuisinefrançaise #pouletauxmorilles #pulignymontrachet #pulignymontrachet1ercru #domainemarcmorey #bourgogne #chardonnay #asisomms #sommelierproblems #sommlifestyle ...

Time for simple home cooking! A fat loin of Skrei fried in French butter, served with confit of leek, browned mushrooms, shrimps, dill and horseradish. A tasty, warming and comforting dish for a chilly spring day. Found an old acquaintance in my cellar - 2007 Ch. de Fieuzal, 2007 was a lovely vintage for the dry and sweet whites of Bordeaux, however, just like for white burgundies in these times of premox, I prefer to drink them in 5-6 years to be on the safe side. This particular bottle showed a fine maturity without oxidation with notes of lemongrass, ripe citrus, pineapple and a fine hint of oak with. Fresh and crisp bite lifting the rather ample texture. A nice and unexpected pairing for my simple lunch à la maison. #terroirgrondal #simplehomecooking #simplecooking #homecomingishomecooking #husmanskost #skrei #chateaudefieuzal #pessacleognan #grandcruclassedegraves #semillon #sauvignon #bordeaux #bordeauxlover #asisomms #sommlifestyle #sommelier #legrandsommelier ...

In one way I don't like the idea of second wines... as I'd always prefer the best to the second best. However, looking at the decreased production of Grand Vin and the increase in quality for the second wines, it certainly gives you an avant goût of the Grand Vin as well as offering an earlier drinkability, not to say to a more modest price level! This 2009 Le Clarence de Haut-Brion is one of the better ones I've been drinking. It displays both the power and ripeness of the vintage, yet with a remarkable nuance and finesse. Filled with elegant tobacco, cedar, stony notes, ripe cherry and cassis with a dense palate packed with gorgeous dark fruit, finely polished tannin and persistent elegant finish. Sometimes great wines are better off with uncomplicated dishes and this Swedish organic milk cow was just grilled to perfection and served with two trimmings - salt and pepper! Another hard day at work! #sommelierproblems #sommlifestyle #asisomms #winelover #simplecooking #simplehomecooking #homecomingishomecooking #cotedeboeuf #chateauhautbrion #leclarencedehautbrion #merlot #cabernet #terroir #pessacleognan #bordeaux #bordeauxlover @domaine_clarencedillon ...

A question I’ve been asked a thousand times- what would you eat with this wine? The answer is always simple, with a great wine a prefer tasty and uncomplicated flavours. Tonight’s version became a perfectly roasted French corn fed chicken with baked onion, pancetta baked cabbage, mushrooms and potatoes that got to suck up that succulent chicken juice! A hint of the juice mixed with butter and coarse mustard et voilà! A simple dish for a great wine. 2004 Pontet-Canet is stunning, I remember blind tasting this with all the great wines from Bordeaux in vintage 2004. This was a top three with Latour and Mouton. It is still as good if not even better having gained some more maturity and complexity. Dense and chewy dark fruit with benchmark leather, tobacco, cassis, five toast and a very dense palate with refreshing and grainy tannin, long and lingering finish, too easy to finish unfortunately! #terroirgrondal #zefrenchchef #cookingathome #simplecooking #homecomingishomecooking #asisomms #sommelierproblems #sommlifestyle #bordeaux #pauillac #chateaupontetcanet #cabernet #merlot #grandcruclasse #grandvin #winelover #classicgastronomy ...

Another day another Skrei! Today’s spontaneous version lightly salted loin sautéed in butter on Savoy cabbage with browned butter hollandaise flavoured with anchovies brine (the Swedish version pickled in a spicy brine, like herring). Tasty and comforting. Sometimes the finest wines are best with rather rustic food and particularly in this case - a lovely match where the buttery, nutty and slightly riper 2015 fruit certainly has the power and structure for the dish, yet with a good dose of freshness and zest... #zefrenchchef #terroirgrondal #sommelierproblems #asisomms #sommlifestyle #cookingathome #homecomingishomecooking #simplecooking #skrei #hollandaise #cortoncharlemagne #maisonchampy #chardonnay #burgundy #winelover #foodandwine ...

Loin of haddock bourguignon a lovely fish dish suitable to the best red wines. Chestnut mushrooms, pancetta, small onions and a Cabernet gravy... speaking about great wines, one of the greatest that defies all categories and styles being just unique and great regardless of vintage = Roc de Cambes! This 2008 boasts an amazingly intense perfume with layers of truffle, wild berries, flowers, spices and meaty notes. VINCE trader and weighty but with a usually polished and silky texture, very digest despite its density, super long and seductive! Another spontaneous lunch à la maison! #sommelierproblems #asisomms #sommlifestyle #cookingathome #homecomingishomecooking #simplecooking #rocdecambes #cotesdebourg #cotesdebordeaux #mitjavilewines #merlot #cabernet #sexywine #foodandwine #winelover #zefrenchchef #anotherharddayatwork ...

Improvised lunch à la maison... a juicy seared loin of saithe in a very tasty sauce made of seafood stock with coconut milk, coriander, sweet basil and a dash of fresh Chili with mussels and shrimps. Really tasty, healthy, warming and comforting. Riesling is always the answer for these kind of flavours, I could have opted for kabinett or even spätlese like quality but didn’t had any in my cave du jour, thus I settled for the 2011 Kellerberg Smaragd from FX Pichler. Certainly a ripe and warm style with layers of unctuous stone fruit and promiscuous apricot, yet with a good vein of freshness, super textured and long, rather easy to finish the bottle. #sommelierproblems #asisomms #sommlifestyle #asiancooking #cookingathome #simplecooking #homecomingishomecooking #austrianwine #wachau #vineawachau #fxpichler #riesling #durnsteinerkellerberg #smaragd #anotherharddayatwork ...

Opened a case of Beaucastel 2006... was eager to drink it of course... did so and thoroughly enjoyed the spice, the garrigue, the ripe Mediterranean fruit, that dark and leathery Mourvèdre, the weight, the depth, the length... great stuff with perfect drinkability. As I bought some Skrei I just did a red wine adaption of the dish with chickpeas braised in seafood broth with chorizo, fennel, onion, garlic and tomato. Rich warming, healthy and comforting. A bloody good even if unexpected match. #homecomingishomecooking #simplecooking #skrei #zefrenchchef #garbanzos #sommelierproblems #asisomms #sommlifestyle #chateaudebeaucastel #familleperrin #chateauneufdupape #grenache #mourvedre #grandvin #anotherharddayatwork ...

Lunch à la maison with some beautiful 2008’s - decadent starter with caviar, potato crepes and the usual trimmings with a beautiful Cristal showing much more intensity, volume and weight since last tasting. Yet with the brightness and precision typical for 2008. Of course it’s always better to drink than to taste! Roasted chicken, Brussels, sprouts, lardons, mushrooms and duck fat potatoes, rustic and tasty dish paired with 2008 Pavie-Macquin showing lovely concentration with dark fruit, smoke and truffle, plenty of grainy tannins with fine polish and super long fresh finish, one of the top wines this vintage. Then the Beaucastel certainly shined as I have a slight preference for Châteauneuf from cooler years - yet very warm, embracing and spicy with peppery, leather, kirsch, and red fruit notes, bold and rounded palate, harmonious and persistent with perfect drinkability today... #sommelierproblems #asisomms #sommlifestyle #zefrenchchef #homecomingishomecooking #simplecooking #caviar #poulet #chateaudebeaucastel #chateaupaviemacquin #cristal #louisroederer #2008 #chateauneufdupape #saintemilion #saintemilionpremiergrandcruclasse #champagne #merlot #cabernetfranc #mourvedre #grenache #pinotnoir #chardonnay @familleperrin @chateau_paviemacquin @louisroederer_ ...

Now it’s Skrei season and I eat it as often as I can, this tonight’s impromptu dinner à la maison starting with a classic Toast Skagen followed by a lightly salted fat loin of cod, seared in generous amounts of butter, confit of fennel, lightly pickled cucumber and shrimps with browned butter with a pinch of ginger! A classic rustic Swedish staple dish. In the glass despite its youth a tremendous 2017 Meursault from Antoine Jobard, sort of my definition of what Meursault is all about -stony and flinty with finely tuned oak, a hint of gunpowder, pale stone fruit, fresh butter and crushed nuts. Lovely texture that combines fat and freshness like few wines manage to do, long and certainly a lovely partner for my modest home cooking. #terroirgrondal #zefrenchchef #sommelierproblems #asisomms #sommlifestyle #homecooking #homecomingishomecooking #husmanskost #skrei #toastskagen #löjrom #meursault #chardonnay #burgundy #antoinejobard @antoine.jobard ...

Quick fix for dinner... chili, soy, sesame and ginger marinated salmon with go-chu-jang baked cauliflower, sugar snaps, coriander, lemongrass and coconut sauce... exotic flavours do best with Riesling in my humble opinion even if this rather spicy dish could have been better with an off dry version, the Erdener Treppchen Alte Reben GG, with its beautiful fruit, density, freshness and layered exotic flavours certainly did its job very well! #sommelierproblems #terroirgrondal #cookingathome #homecomingishomecooking #simplecooking #asiancooking #drloosen #riesling #erdenertreppchen #grossesgewächs #vdp #mosel #asisomms #sommlifestyle #anotherharddayatwork @dr.loosen ...

For the 15th time, I’m blown away by this January tasting at Kloster Eberbach where we get to taste some of the great vintages of German and european wine history. Amongst the highlights the 1945 Assmannshäuser Höllenberg 1945 - by far the most complet and complex Spätburgunder i ever tasted and one of the best Pinot Noir from anywhere. The 1920 also performing on a very serious level. A great insight into Frühburgunder from 2017 to 1959, a rare variety I hardly ever tasted with this maturity. That Riesling ages forever is nothing new - however, some great surprises like the Gräfenberg 1940, well performing off vintage. Schlossberg 2017-1921 even if the latter despite the vintage reputation doesn’t perform as well as 1920 which is my all time favourite for mature dry Riesling. The great Baiken in BA and TBA versions with 2017 showing tremendously, pure, fresh and concentrated even if the complexity coming with half a decade of ageing, was unparalleled in the 1953:s @kloster_eberbach #sommelierproblems #winelover #rieslinglover #pinotnoirlover #perhapsnotfruhburgunderloveryet #erstesgewächs #grossesgewächs #vdp #rheingau #germanhistory #winehistory #asisomms #sommlifestyle #anotherharddayatwork ork ...