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The weekend so far
Dec. 7th, 2008 09:00 amFriday night was housewarming chez ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sabotabby and zingerella. There was food. There was drink. There was shininess and there were two very lovely hosts. Good times. Who knew vegetarians could be so much fun?
Saturday we motored down to Niagara to catch the 13th Street winter release party. It was cold and snowy. This year the food rather outshone the wine which was a bit unfortunate, though given the quality of the nibblies on offer (two kinds of oyster, gravlax, canapes with smoked duck breast, excellent cheeses plus sweet stuff) the wine would have had to be consistently excellent to compete. The stand out wines were the 2005 Cuvée 13 sparkler and the Funk Vineyard Riesling 2007. The sparkler had a quite wonderful mousse and a lovely toasty flavour. The Riesling was already quite 'petrolly' and will develop into something special with a few years bottle age. We then hit Hernder to stock up on cheapies. In this case Baco Noir, Shiraz and Chambourcin plus some very reasonably priced Chardonnay.
Phase 2 was the elusive hunt for Gewűrztraminer. Normally reliable Stoneyridge was out of stock but assured us that the 2008, to be released in the Spring, would be fantastic. They suggested Hillebrand or Konzelmann. The GPS took us there by a quite bizarre route but we got there. The Konzelmann was bland and expensive so we passed. Hillebrand oozed Napa like attitude, didn't have their Gewurz available to taste and was just icky so we had a late lunch and came home. Se were just in time as it turned out as the snow got quite bad almost as soon as we got ome to the extent that taking the car back was a minor adventure. Kinemoopers FTW BTW!
The great Gewűrztraminer (or equivalent) hunt will now move off shore to see if we can locate something that's reasonable value from either Alsace or the southern hemisphere. Whatever the answer is, it isn't Moldovan Pinot Grigio.
Today will be spent mostly indoors as it is -16 with the windchill right now. Brunch may figure somewhere in the plan though, as may a nap, aspigsnout000, currently somewhere over the Pacific west of Los Angeles arrives at way past my bedtime tonight and I have an 8am meeting tomorrow.
sabotabby and zingerella. There was food. There was drink. There was shininess and there were two very lovely hosts. Good times. Who knew vegetarians could be so much fun?Saturday we motored down to Niagara to catch the 13th Street winter release party. It was cold and snowy. This year the food rather outshone the wine which was a bit unfortunate, though given the quality of the nibblies on offer (two kinds of oyster, gravlax, canapes with smoked duck breast, excellent cheeses plus sweet stuff) the wine would have had to be consistently excellent to compete. The stand out wines were the 2005 Cuvée 13 sparkler and the Funk Vineyard Riesling 2007. The sparkler had a quite wonderful mousse and a lovely toasty flavour. The Riesling was already quite 'petrolly' and will develop into something special with a few years bottle age. We then hit Hernder to stock up on cheapies. In this case Baco Noir, Shiraz and Chambourcin plus some very reasonably priced Chardonnay.
Phase 2 was the elusive hunt for Gewűrztraminer. Normally reliable Stoneyridge was out of stock but assured us that the 2008, to be released in the Spring, would be fantastic. They suggested Hillebrand or Konzelmann. The GPS took us there by a quite bizarre route but we got there. The Konzelmann was bland and expensive so we passed. Hillebrand oozed Napa like attitude, didn't have their Gewurz available to taste and was just icky so we had a late lunch and came home. Se were just in time as it turned out as the snow got quite bad almost as soon as we got ome to the extent that taking the car back was a minor adventure. Kinemoopers FTW BTW!
The great Gewűrztraminer (or equivalent) hunt will now move off shore to see if we can locate something that's reasonable value from either Alsace or the southern hemisphere. Whatever the answer is, it isn't Moldovan Pinot Grigio.
Today will be spent mostly indoors as it is -16 with the windchill right now. Brunch may figure somewhere in the plan though, as may a nap, as
pigsnout000, currently somewhere over the Pacific west of Los Angeles arrives at way past my bedtime tonight and I have an 8am meeting tomorrow.
