Yesterday we went to McKinney to pick up our wine club selections. Both wineries we went to allow us to taste the selections and get something different if we aren't enamoured of their picks. Lone Star is the hardest, because they don't have very much that is semi-sweet or even semi-dry. They usually have one or two wines that we love, but they are often out of them. Yesterday, we got the last bottle of our favorite, and we had two month's selections to pick up--four bottles. We did get one of the reds--the one that had more flavor and was more complex--a Meritage. Our son-in-law's birthday is coming up... :-) We managed to find a couple others that we thought would work nicely with lamb (a challenge for us since we don't like most reds and we need wines that have enough flavor to hold their own against lamb and still be delicious for our second glass which we will have in the living room after supper.
Landon presents other problems because they won't adjust the price even if we don't get the expensive wine they select for the red. Most of the wines we love at Landon (and there are usually six or seven that we adore) are their least expensive wines. The complex red that they selected was much more expensive, but, if we substitute the wine we like, we have to pay the higher price of the wine we refused. So, we took the more expensive wine, again a Meritage, which was full bodied, dry and complex. Chris' birthday again... :-). It is good to know someone who will appreciate these fuller red wines.
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