Friday, September 11, 2020

Wine and Food of Le Tour 2020 Stage 13


Time for a climb. From the race director: The journey through the Massif Central will for the first time finish at the Puy Mary and will feature the biggest elevation gain of the 2020 Tour with a total of 4,400 metres of climbing. Before taking on the final climb, the riders will have to deal with the Col de Ceyssat and the Col de Neronne. The favourites will need to be at their very best.
Specialties Chatel Guyon: thermal waters, teas, Auvergne specialties.
Specialties Puy Mary Cantal:  truffade (truffle omelette), aligot (mash with cheese), choux farcis (stuffed cabbage), bourriol (black wheat pancake), salers meat, Auvergne cheesed.



The stage: The action started right away with riders eager to get into a break. Eventually there would be a large group: Pavel Sivakov (Ineos Grenadiers), Lennard Kämna (Bora-Hansgrohe), Warren Barguil (Arkéa-Samsic), Hugh Carthy, Daniel Martínez and Neilson Powless (EF Education First), Nicolas Edet (Cofidis), David de la Cruz (UAE Team Emirates), Pierre Rolland (B&B Hotels-Vital Concept), Max Schachmann (Bora-Hansgrohe), Romain Sicard (Total Direct Energie) and Valentin Madouas (Groupama-FDJ) are reunited and coming across to Rémi Cavagna and Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick Step), Simon Geschke (CCC), Dan Martin (Israel Start-Up Nation) and Marc Soler (Movistar). 
With Hugh Carthy and Valentin Madouas jumped from the leading group. With 108 kilometers to go Madouas was solo in the lead with a small gap over Carthy.
That would not last and he would rejoin the larger group.
With 88 kilometers to go, that group had seven minutes over the peloton. 
Crash behind, Bardet amongst those down, but he would be back up and riding with team support. 
Abandonment: Mollema, who had been 13th on GC.
With 67 kilometers to go, the gap was over eight minutes. Meanwhile, I was dreaming about moving. Blue sky! Green! Outdoors you could actually enjoy!

Fifty three kilometers to go and the gap was over nine minutes. 
It would go up.
First attack off the front group, Powless. Next to go, Schachmann. Twenty nine kilometers to go and they were together up front. Twenty five kilometers to go and they had around 35 seconds.
Behind, Ineos had come to the front, perhaps setting the stage for an attack by Bernal. A day of two races, perhaps.
Eighteen kilometers to go and Schachmann was solo in the lead, making many think he would hold on for the stage.
Max Schachmann crested col de Néronne alone in the lead. Martinez was 2nd and Kämna was 3rd at 25''. Soler, Rolland and Edet came next at 55''.
Occasional glimpses of the yellow jersey group, showed numerous riders struggling there as Ineos continued to push. Those in trouble included Guillaume Martin, Romain Bardet and Adam Yates.
A little later, that group would be down to thirteen: Tom Dumoulin, Sepp Kuss, Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma), Richard Carapaz, Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers), Nairo Quintana (Arkéa-Samsic), Rigoberto Urán (EF Education First), Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott), Miguel Ángel López (Astana Pro Team), Mikel Landa (Bahrain-McLaren), Richie Porte (Trek-Segafredo).

In the front, with five kilometers to go, Schachmann still had twenty seconds.
Two kilometers to go and seventeen seconds. He would be caught by Martinez and Kämna.
Martinez! What an amazing win from him.
Back behind, Pogacar and Roglic on the attack. Bernal was struggling. Also looking very good, Richie Porte.
Two races indeed today.
Race one:


Race two:            
The wine: 2020 has meant relaxing a little bit of my "as close as possible" rules to "as close as possible without running from store to store" as I usually do. So when Christy said: It's a stretch, but you could do a Beaujolais, I jumped at. Well, also because I love Beaujolais.
Marcel Joubert Beaujolais Cuvee L'Ancienne 2017 from Copake Wine Works
Plus, this from the importer: A fourth-generation wine-maker, Marcel Joubert boasts a grandfather named Petrus, founder of the appellation Brouilly. The 12 hectare vineyard spreads across AOC Beaujolais, Beaujolais-Villages, Brouilly, Fleurie, Chiroubles and Morgon. Marcel Joubert followed the steps of his father in 1972, with in mind the preservation of vines 30 to 100 year old and the desire to farm in a way close to nature. His daughter Carine took over in 2016.

The food: Aligot
Potatoes, cheese, butter, why not? As tasty as we found it, our pictures were lousy. You can see a few better images, along with a recipe at SeriousEats.

The tourist website provided an easy recipe:
Serves 6 :Ingredients
* 1 kg of floury potatoes
* 100 g of butter
* 250 g of creme fraiche
* 400 g of tome fraîche de Laguiole
* clove of garlic
* Salt pepper
Cook
Prepare a classic mash potatoes, add to this purée the butter and the creme fraiche. Season with salt, pepper and a hint of garlic.
Heat up the mash and add the cheese cut in small strips, then stir slowly with a wooden spoon. (This takes a little while and is very good arm exercise!)
When the mixture becomes stringy the Aligot is ready!
Serve with sausages or a pork or beef roast.
Enjoy!
Tip: take the cheese out of the fridge early enough, the stirring will be much easier.
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