2 glasses of wine....

Last night, I did some music at JT Schmids in Anaheim in the open air patio.... during the evening, I decided to try some wine by the glass.

The first was an Acacia Chardonnay... filled with oak, some nice pear and peach nuances... it was served in an appropriately tall glass with about 7oz of drink. It was also served chilled. This gave the wine a slightly harshness that dissipated as the wine warmed up.... then the rough edges smoothed out and it was really delicious!

The 2nd was the 337 Cabernet from Lodi.... ordinarily, I'm not big on this wine, but, last night - served in the same type of glass as the Chardonnay (a non-crystal glass about the size of the average Bordeaux glass from Reidel)... this wine tasted quite good. Perhaps it was because I followed the oaky Chardonnay, but the 337 had some nice berry fruit with a bit of tobacco and coffee notes on the finish... yeah, the finish was relatively short, but it was not unpleasant at all.

Bottom line? Sometimes it's just nice to get a glass of wine and not overly intellectualize it... just drink it.

After all, it's still grape juice!

Cheers :)

Miscellaneous Wine and Beer Stuff

It's been about a month since I last posted something here and there's a good reason for it. I've had nothing to say.

Yeah, I've enjoyed some nice wines during that time... the 2006 Justin Cabernet, the 2007 Concha Y Toro Cabernet, 2005 Zaca Mesa Syrah, 2007 Mollydooker Syrah... and I've tasted some good beer.... Bear Republic's Racer 5, Stone's Arrogant Bastard, and Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA....

And I've come to a conclusion. I'm currently bored with wine. There's nothing really exciting to me right now in terms of tasting something that gives me the sensation of WOW! In other words, in my budget... say... $7 - $30 per bottle, I've probably spent around $30,000 in the last 7-8 years...

So, I've tasted a lot of wine. And - nothing blows me away anymore. Yeah, there's some good tasting stuff and rarely do I taste something that I simply do not like - however simple the wine is.... but, really.... it's still just grape juice.

I've actually been navigating over to beer.... the problem is it's so freaking filling and I'm not a sipper when it comes to beer... I like to DRINK it! So, it goes quickly and sits on my waistline. Not good.

But my taste buds say different. My taste buds don't care about my waistline or my budget or my opinion. And I've found that, at least for now, beer is more interesting than wine.