Last Night at The Eversley - 1

24-Nov-08 - Sirloin steak, celeriac mash and cauliflower with black peppercorn sauce and, having run out of 'everyday' wines, I opened a dusty bottle of 2001 Valsardo reserva (Ribera del Duero). It was a sample which had been sent to me some time last year and I hadn't got around to it. I decanted it (I'm routinely decanting anything from about 2003 back these days). The wine was perfect - mature, ripe, full of fruit, elegantly-balanced tannins, lovely length and spot-on with steak au poivre. Jill loved it, and so did I. It was only afterwards that I looked up the price - £35 at Swig. I haven't told her yet.