Country Six in our Lock Down Tour is Ukraine.
The food was Chicken Kiev. The last time we had this dish was in Kiev in 2019 when Viking Sineus moored there at the end of a cruise from the Black Sea port of Odessa and up the Dnieper River. (blog post here)
I brought this wine home with me, bought in Odessa and it’s a varietal Odessky Cherny which translates to Odessa Black, so both start and end points of the cruise are referenced in this meal.
Chicken Kiev (breaded chicken breast stuffed with garlic & herb butter) was accompanied by sautéed new potatoes with onion, broad beans and cauliflower florets.
2018 Kolonist Odessa Cherny (Ukraine, Odessa)
Odessky Cherny (Odessa Black) is a successful 20th Century Ukrainian crossing of the red fleshed Alicante Bouschet and Cabernet Sauvignon.
The wine was opaque black red and had thrown a lot of deposits along the bottle where I’d kept it on its side for the past 18 months. It had the structure of Cabernet together with the intensity of Alicante. Very enjoyable, but unfortunately my only bottle.
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