It's a wine tasting. Right in our own home.
You get to taste 6 and pick your favorites.
Swirl, sniff, sip, enjoy.
It's fun to pretend you know what you are doing.
"I say Chris did you catch the subtle essence of blackberry and smoked figs with that last bottle?"
I wish I could drink wine. Gives me a blasting headache, then makes me sick. Not a good thing. I love the whole wine making culture, all the accoutrements, what a shame!
Posted by: Joan | 01/02/2012 at 01:42 PM
Would you mind if I use the 1st photo to paint from in my new oilpainting class?
Posted by: jeanette, mistress of longears | 01/02/2012 at 04:16 PM
This reminds me that I have some frozen fig/goat cheese puffs in the freezer and a bottle of red somewhere. Dinner!
Posted by: Leslie J. Moran | 01/02/2012 at 04:16 PM
So which was your favorite? Any recommendations?
Posted by: Robin | 01/02/2012 at 06:38 PM
Sweaty saddle and canned asparagus are two wine notes to avoid at all costs. I swear on a stack of JJill catalogs those were descriptors in a batch of wine I bought from the Wall Street Journal.
Posted by: SusanS | 01/02/2012 at 09:18 PM
Robin: this was a nice christmas gift where we got to select the 2 bottles we liked the best as a gift. They were all cabernet's and we picked the Juslyn Vineyards and The Ackerman Family Vineyards as our favorites. Nice present! It was from TastingRoom.com
Susan: Sweaty saddle + canned asparagus sounds like a boys locker room to me. How was the wine?
Posted by: Carol | 01/02/2012 at 10:08 PM
I once heard a TV wine expert say (about a fruity red) "I'm getting chocolate, blackberries and...mmm... dustbins."
Were all your wines home produced (meaning in the USA of course!)
Posted by: Chrissy | 01/03/2012 at 04:50 AM
ha ha ha the wine was so-so but made my pee smell bad (did I just type that?!)
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Posted by: SusanS | 01/06/2012 at 05:02 PM