It’s conference championship week in the #NFL. I’ve got one great wine to go with two great games. Up first, the #AFC – #baltimoreravens vs #kcchiefs. Game #2 – #detroitlions vs #sanfranciso49ers #winetime #leftbank #bordeaux #moulisenmedoc #frenchwine #patmahomes #jaredgoff #brockpurdy #traviskelce #lamarjackson #Moulis-en Medoc
Wine Featured – La Reserve de Mauvesin Barton, Chateau Mauvesin Barton , 2015
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Hey welcome to Wine pairings and football predictions with Francis I’m your host Francis this is the conference Edition so there’s two games one for the AFC and one for the NFC I’m going to be predicting them both and this time I’m actually only going to be providing one
Wine I have been invited to someone’s home for the games and I was asked to bring the wine they told me the menu in advance and my only responsibility was to bring wine so that’s what I’m going to do let me start with the football predictions in the first game we’re
Going to get the Baltimore Ravens and the Kansas City Chiefs okay the Chiefs obviously are last year’s Super Bowl winners and they win a lot in the playoffs but I think that Baltimore is a team of Destiny okay they came to San Francisco and shut them down incredibly
And if anybody had doubts about Lamar Jackson as the MVP those were all quashed also they are the best team defensively and offensively they are going to win they’re going to win they’re going to beat Kansas City today which is going to be incredible because if there’s one
Thing Patrick Mahomes knows how to do it’s winning the playoffs for the night game where I live many people are excited about the second game and that is going to be the Detroit Lions versus the San Francisco 49ers now I’m picking the 49ers because I think they’re better
Than Detroit however I will be secretly rooting for Detroit because as a fan myself of a long suffering team the fact that the Detroit Lions are finally in the NFC championship game and are just one game away from the playoffs after 31 years of not even sniffing the playoffs
How can you not support that but the fact of the matter is the 49ers are better defensively offensively I don’t know it might be a bit of a push now full disclosure gof did go to Cal and I went to Cal so I might be giving him some extra cred but
My choices for for today are the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers and my choice for the wine today the thing that you probably want to hear about even more is something that is new to amadis wines I just started carrying it about 6 months ago and this wine is
Called La Reserva in maen Barton and this is a French wine it comes from the Left Bank of Bordeaux and in particular it comes from the vineyard of M in Mok okay so I know that’s a lot of words that don’t mean anything to everybody but here are the things that you should
Know first of all with as with basically all French wine decant it okay take it out of the bottle and put it in another container and decant it give it at least a half an hour to kind of get some air in there it’s really going to make a
Huge difference if you think I’m lying you could do a little taste test where you open a bottle have a glass then and then taste the wine in 15minute increments and you can see how it changes now this wine I had another bottle so of that wine I had it a couple
Of days ago so this Wine’s already been decanted what you’re getting here on this is you’re getting this dark color this is actually a I got to check how many grapes I think it’s only three it’s a three grape blend it’s saong Cabernet Cabernet saon Cabernet
Fran and Mero okay and one of the things that people need to remember is when you’re in many regions of France bone particularly you’re getting a lot of Cabernet sa but Mero is often used as a blending wine so while I do not care for Mero in this instance you won’t notice
This that much so we have a beautiful dark color because we’re talking about three grapes that are super dark and juicy on the nose you’re getting a lot of red fruits so I’m talking pomegranate red currant Cherry right you know Juicy Fruit too also a little bit of flour
There’s like a kind of a floral taste smell back there um Violet and there is also a little green pepper now on the lips you’re getting a little bit of wood and smoke right you’re also getting a little bit of um that cherry and pomegranate flavor it is
A little bit acidic okay so the tannin level is pretty high and it is dry so it’s the great choice for the meal that I’ll be having today which I was told is a steak and potatoes and I don’t know how the potatoes are being prepared but they’ll
Be steak in potatoes and this is the perfect accompanyment for steak and potatoes anything else if I’m hoping fingers crossed that there’ll be chicken wings or some kind of a spinach dip this might overpower a little bit but for the main course it’s perfect so I want to
Recommend it I’m going to show it again if you want to get it contact me here’s the bottle it’s 2015 contact me at amandus Wines and I will make sure you get a h a bottle in your hands also if you like this information Please Subscribe it would
Mean the world to me I’ll see you next time