Anyone who knows us knows we love wine... We drink water, some Coke Zero, and mostly wine. People give us wine as gifts and take us wine-ing. We wine when we travel and we wine when we are home. We wine on the back porch while we read and we wine in the living room while we watch TV. We wine while we eat. We go to wine events and we go wine-tasting both at home and while we travel.
We just returned from a two-week trip in which we wined all the way up through Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio, wined for a day on the Niagara Escarpment, wined a couple days north of Philadelphia, and raced back with over 4 cases of wine. As I think back on the trip, our wine-tasting is a bit of a blur (whose isn't?), so I figure I will tell about the wines we bought and the locations we found them in while we drink them.
On the way home, I got a call from the broker telling me we had a cash contract on my house that was reasonable and I thought nothing could go wrong and the house would be sold by the end of the month. Wrong-o. On Thursday, we were notified that the buyer had changed his mind. No reason given. I'd been avoiding wine with dinner since we got home, because we had had plenty while gone, but I needed to break out a bottle that night. The bottle I broke out and served with our steak was Blueberry wine that we had bought at Lone Star Winery in McKinney. It was a dark red fruit wine, sweet, but not too sweet--not a dessert wine. The second glass (after dinner) was better than the first.
Our wine philosophy is that we like light semi-sweet or semi-dry wines that are okay with foods (we usually have the first glass with dinner), but stand up when dinner is finished and we retire to the living room for the second glass. This is not true when getting wines to go with meals for more people than just the two of us, when we will pair wines with courses. We also love to have meals of just "nachkies" (kind of a combination Yiddish/Mexican term that I made up)--cheese, shrimp, appetisers, and wine. For these, our light, crisp, semi-sweet or semi-dry wines are perfect.
This blog will document our wine adventures and our favorite wineries.
We used to enjoy our wine, if memory serves.
ReplyDeleteAs I recall, you were the one who introduced me to wine. Or at least good wine. My mom drank Thunderbird, but I was underage and never even tasted it--I was so good.
DeleteNow, I only drink wine when out to dinner and never at home. times do change
ReplyDeleteBetween the ages of 50 and 60, I was pretty much a tee-totaller. But working at a folk art shop kind of made wine drinking an occupational hazard--When good customers came by, we broke out the wine and soon were breaking it out about 4 whether they came by or not... I believe it is good for us. For the little aches and pains that settle in several hours after our morning swim and exercise as well as for our attitude. :-)
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