So if you've seen Shannon's blog (www.knittinggeek.blogspot.com) you should know that we went wine tasting this weekend. Let me try to expand on this subject a bit. I really like wine...I really like beer too. Does this make me an alcoholic? No, it just makes me a fun date. We ate lunch at Cafe Don Giovanni, really f---ing good. Steve orders a half bottle of Rombauer chardonnay, we were impressed with this wine and Steve said we'd get there later because he wanted another bottle. Next we went to Trendle ( I think ) the wine was good but I didn't buy any. Then we went to St.Supery, it was pretty busy because we think there was a wedding setting up. Most of their wines where excellent, but one of the sauvignon blanc's tasted like grapefruit juice. Shannon did not like it. Their best wine was a moscato, we bought one, can't wait to drink it. Next we went next door to Peju, this place was packed and they were trying to do tasting in groups. We waited for about 15 mins. Then left. I think this is where I let Mang start driving. We drove on a bit and went to Beaulieu Vineyard. As soon as we walked in the door they handed us a glass of sauvignon blanc, we walked to the bar and tasted more wine but the best thing about this winery was that the guy behind the bar recognized Steve and Mang from their honey moon almost a year ago. When they had come in then he knew it was their honeymoon because Mangs hair was still done-up, her nails were done, and Steve's ring was way too shiny. He let us taste for free, then we went downstairs and bought more wine. An Alsatian style gewurtztraminer, and a pinot noir vin gris, both very good summer drinking wines. By this this time I'm pretty tipsy and Steve must have been too, because he was just talking up a storm. Finally we drive to Rombauer, it's about 4:30 and they stop tasting at 5:00. We tasted 3 wines here, but not the chardonnay. Why not? Because they were out of the '03 but the '04 was going to be just as good, and there's no reason to taste it because everyone is waiting to buy it anyway. Kind of snotty...But we bought it anyway. Then I overheard someone tasting the port, may I please try some ( I love port), it was amazing. We'd (pretty much spent all our money (we still had enough for dinner) but it was so good we had to buy it ( thank you Shannon ).
Anyway,we ate dinner at Mustards Grill while our wine buzz was wearing off. We tried to go somewhere for dessert but they were closed. So we just drove home very full and very tired.
pictures of Steve tasting and later chatting in the car. A sculpture outside St. Supery.
6 comments:
Will, you gave a much better description of our wine tasting experience than I did. Your posting was fun to read and funny.
What a wonderful day you all had. Great pictures Will.
I really enjoy wine too. I have trouble remembering which wineries I like, there are so many out there. BC has some great wines, I also like Austrailian wines and Chilian wines. Yum
Thank you Shannon, I'll drink to that.
Keeefer... beer, port, wine, tell me you love coffee too and I'll start to think we're related.
Dontcha just love living here? So much great wine so close. Who was the unlucky one who had to drive home?
I think the place I went to that had the best Port, I'm not a big fan, was Villa Toscano near Plymouth. Do a web search for Amador County Wine and there's a link there that will get you some good info. I know there are some cool travel trips there. We got my parents a bed and breakfast room, and a limo ride to the wineries. I don't think they ever used it.
I found one at the web site called Sonora Winery and Port Works. Might be worth a try.
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