Tasted my first desert wine at Tobin James. Oh my, with dark chocolate as a chaser what can I say. I bought two bottles.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus and he sells box wine at Sylvester Winery!! The winery provides this wine to Princess Cruises (as their house wine)...probably in bigger boxes, tho. I only bought two boxes. I'm running out of room.
Me and my friend at Justin Winery. Made room for just a little more wine.
Was able to spend some time talking to the taste pourer at Justin. He told me there are 80 acres of vineyards here and they hand cut the grapes. Larger vineyards have machines that cut the grapes. Also, when vines get to be around 50-60 years old they produce so little fruit that it becomes too costly to make wine and they will tear the vines out and start over. It takes about 5 years for new vines to produce fruit and bottle wine. Very expensive startup costs.
Tasted my first desert wine at Tobin James. Oh my, with dark chocolate as a chaser what can I say. I bought two bottles.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus and he sells box wine at Sylvester Winery!! The winery provides this wine to Princess Cruises (as their house wine)...probably in bigger boxes, tho. I only bought two boxes. I'm running out of room.
Me and my friend at Justin Winery. Made room for just a little more wine.
Was able to spend some time talking to the taste pourer at Justin. He told me there are 80 acres of vineyards here and they hand cut the grapes. Larger vineyards have machines that cut the grapes. Also, when vines get to be around 50-60 years old they produce so little fruit that it becomes too costly to make wine and they will tear the vines out and start over. It takes about 5 years for new vines to produce fruit and bottle wine. Very expensive startup costs.
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Years ago in DC, Jocelyn and her then-boyfriend (later fiance, later ex-fiance, and LATER it turns out, he was the wrong gender for her tastes anyway) threw a wine-tasting party. Guests were asked to bring a bottle of wine with them, which was then masked with a blank label with only a number on it. Everyone drank all the masked wines and voted which ones they liked best. The winners (which turned out to be Ken and moi with a choice Riesling we'd bought in Virginia wine country) were rewarded with a gourmet dinner prepared by Jocelyn and Ramon at a later date. It was a fun party. And, they had prepared several h'ors d'oeuvres to taste with several pre-selected wines. It was really cool to taste how a wine could taste better with, say, chocolate vs. a parmesan encrusted focacia (and vice versa).
Glad you got dem boxes of vino, too. Who needs bottles or corks anyway?
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