Celebrating a New Wine Collaboration with a Bottle of Cahors gifted to me from Family visiting from France

Cahors wine, named for the town in Southern France where it is made, is Malbec dominant and delicious.

My son-in-law's parents gifted me this bottle while they were visiting from France during the holidays.  

My regular readers know that I normally post 4 wine tasting events each month.  Week 1 was dedicated to Italian Food Wine Travel; Week 2 was Wine Pairing Weekend; Week 3 we would celebrate French Winophiles and we finished up with World Wine Travel on Week 4.

It got to be a bit overwhelming so the administrators of each group got together and decided to coordinate their efforts, each taking 3 months of the year, alternating groups, and posting on the second Saturday of each month.  

I am hosting this first coordinated event.  This month was dedicated to the French Winophiles and I asked the others to share a bottle of wine that they had been gifted, wished they were gifted or had gifted to another.

My son-in-law is from France and his family came to visit for the holidays.  Whenever they are in town I like to host a dinner for them so that they can see all of the family that their son has joined.  This year when they arrived they brought me a bottle of Chateau de Grezels Cahors.

This wine is a Malbec blended with 30% Merlot.  I did not serve it on the night that my son-in-law's family was there as I had purchased wine to pair with the meal I had planned.  I did serve it at another dinner party that I hosted in which I served Steak Diane as the entree.

This was not the nicest bottle of Cahors I have enjoyed but it was very drinkable and paired well with the steak.  My research found that this bottle is sold in the $10-$15 price range which seems reasonable for the quality of the wine.  

Please stop by and read about what French Wines the other bloggers are sharing this month......

• Camilla of Culinary Cam shares "A Red Blend from the Slopes of 'The Giant of Provence', Slow-Braised Venison Stew, and Merci".
• Terri of Our Good Life says "Thank You for the Bordeaux! Plus the cassoulet we paired with it". 
• Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm is "Celebrating a New Wine Collaboration with a Bottle of Cahors gifted to me from Family visiting from France".
• Jeff of Food Wine Click tells "How to Gift a Wine for Your Wine Geek Friend".
• Linda of My Full Wine Glass tells of "A Gift to the Planet: Biodynamic Chenin Blanc from the Loire Valley".
• Susannah of Avvinare is "Drinking Aged Bordeaux from Chateau La Mission Haut Brion". 
• Gwendolyn of Wine Predator is doing double duty with "Birthday Wishes, Gifts: Cassoulet with Cotes du Rhone from Domaine du Pegau, Maison Sinnae, Famille Ravoir" and "The Gift of Wine and A Gift of Wine: 2019 Famille Perrin Cotes du Rhone Reserve with Cassoulet"

We will be meeting on Saturday, January 13th, at 11 AM ET for a chat on Threads.net.  You will find our convo by searching #winophiles.  Please join us.