While on the Niagara Escarpment a week ago last Saturday, one of the wineries we went to was Schulze Vineyards and Winery in Burt, NY. I know we bought at least two wines there, one of which was the one we had last night. This is a sweet Catawba wine called Thirty Mile Point.
I served it with plain old hamburgers and a salad. The wine starts sweet, but has a fruity, tart finish. Very refreshing and it made those hamburgers special. The second glass, after supper, was even better. This is how we enjoy our "at home" wines--the first glass adds to the meal, the second glass is delicious after.
The Catawba is a native grape to the northeast and has been used to make wine for a long time (though not as long as the Concord.) Needless to say, we are not "premiere grape" snobs. We enjoy the local grapes we have encountered throughout the US.
You went home for a visit.
ReplyDeleteLou, Meg's husband, died. He had remarried after Meg's death and moved to Ft. Lauderdale, but he never let us go and we did not let him go. He was adopted as a member of the family and that was it. He was buried next to Meg in Buffalo and we had a lovely graveside service for just the family and friends. (Still was about 50 people.) We also did some wine tasting up there and on the way up and over in the Philly area while we were visiting TR's step son.
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