Happy Easter Wine!

Knowing if I don't bring wines to my Dad's he will try to give me some horrid jug wine I was pleasantly surprised yesterday! I guess I've got him hooked on Riesling after a recent visit to an Asian place. We had a Relax Riesling with some scallops in puff pastry au gratin that was quite decent! I like the funky blue bottle and always think of Franky goes to Hollywood when I drink this wine. It has lots of apple, honey, and a nice round mouth feel but it isn't overly complex just fun.

We also tried a St. Amour Beaujolias Cru from Dubouef that I actually liked. This style of wine is like the one night stand of wine. Once is definitely enough, because of all the ridicule you may be ashamed to admit you liked it, and some people think it is cheap and sleazy even if it is French. It went really good with our Ham, helped take the edge off my dis functional holiday and had lots of raspberry, walnut, and strawberry jam on the palate. Overall I would probably buy this again for a BBQ or something because it's just fruity fresh and good with a little chill.

WSET Tasting Feedback

In addition to the tasting notes the diploma program demands you give to your home base school they also require that you send notes on specific wines to London. Then the Simon Cowell's of the UK wine world send you the results. For anyone not familiar with the program you get to sit and sweat it out for for 3 wks. till you get results.

It is unfortunate that I am an hour away from NYC and not able to taste with a group very often. Sure I can find people here that will taste with me but they aren't familiar with the style of notes that I have to take and don't really care! Don't you wish one of your friends asked you over to try 5 different sparkling wines? Or maybe a Burgundy or 2? Hell yeah I'll be right over!

Hopefully I will get some of this moo la back in the long run. Things are looking up in the work department with some interesting things on the horizon. So if I can pass this unit 3 I'm confident with the rest of the curriculum and won't end up drinking with Ralphie our vineyard dog because I've spent all my money on fine wine. I will admit my choice for the 5 yr old red was a Nuits St George 1er Cru Burgundy so I can't lay all the blame on the WSET.

Take Courage Woman!

OK I know I promised to blog from the road! Well I just became sooooooo overwhelmed with facts it didn't happen....
Wine shit happens!!!!!
I promise I'll add some feeds from Bordeaux even if they are written post trip but I just had to add this image that stopped me in my tracks in London.
Hitting a presuppose in the year that I've had to just travel around figuring what the hell I want to be when I grow up this building just hit me in the face. Take courage woman! You can conquer what ever you set out to do.