At Jamavar in The Leela Palace, I am led to a table that has a distinct tag placed in the centre which reads Château Guiraud. Every table in the room has a similar tag — Château Cantelauze, Château Castagnac, Château Faugères, Château Corbin Michotte, Château Sociando Mallet, Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey, and Château Tifayne.
These châteaus, all from Bordeaux, took centrestage at an evening that brought together wine enthusiasts and food lovers from the city by the Consulate-General of France in Puducherry and Chennai, Tasting Pleasures, wine education centre and library, and Bordeaux World Heritage Organisation in association with Hotel Leela Palace. Here, all eyes were trained not just on the selection of wines from Médoc, Saint Emilion, Pomerol, Fronsac, and Sauternes that were to be served, but the menu carefully rolled up near each place setting.
“Today, you are welcome to share my passion for food, and great wine,” says writer Laurent Moujon, reflecting on his work for the book Bordeaux, Pairing Wines with Indian Cuisine, which chronicles the best of Indian recipes from chefs across the world, and ideal Bordeaux wine pairings to go with it. Lise Talbot Barré, Consul-Général, welcomed the gathering.
