Chris and Julie took us out to Pappadeaux Seafood Restaurant last night. Julie and I shared a bottle of Riesling from Chateau St. Michelle--it won't take long for my reader to catch on that my food wine of choice is Riesling. She and I both had shrimp and scallop skewers and the wine was perfect.
The occasion was TR's birthday. He had a salad and gumbo deliberately saving room for dessert--he had about the largest piece of cheesecake I ever saw!
As if taking us our for dinner wasn't enough, Chris and Julie gave TR an electric wine chiller. We tried it out this morning on our Almond Sparkling that we had with breakfast. (We like, on Sundays, to have breakfast of eggs and sparkling wine.) The wine came out of the refrigerator and I put it into the chiller. The chiller decided it was 75 degrees going in (room temperature)...it could not sense the temperature the wine actually went in at.
It did keep the wine cold throughout the morning, which means it was doing what it was supposed to do. But, two hours later, it was still registering just 55...its target temp for the wine was 45, probably close to the actual temperature that the wine went in at. So, it did what it was supposed to do, but, the only way for it to accurately report the temperature, the wine would have to be room temperature when it goes in, and then it would take a long time to bring it down to optimum temp. So...I keep using the refrigerator.
Wow! Finally, after 5 hours since I set the wine in the chiller, it now reads 49--oops. It is supposed to get to 45! However, it is still every bit as cold as it started out...so, it's ok.
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