We hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving… we did! While Scott and Amy celebrated with their family last week, Janet and Lenny had most of the family over for Thanksgiving dinner.
There was an article in the Trib by the NY Times wine critic, Eric Asimov. He asked several friends who are somehow in the wine business to recommend a white and a red for Thanksgiving dinner. There were several suggestions but his favorites were given by a friend who is also a sommelier. Here are the two wines.
Villa Brici 2018, is a nice crisp white from Slovenia. It was very refreshing with a nice acidity to it. You would be hard pressed to find a wine drinker who did not like this wine.
The red is a 2017 Breca Garnacha from Spain. Here is another wine with just the right amount of acidity to go well with Thanksgiving dinner or any dinner for that matter. Not too dry, not too sweet, it was very well balanced and will, no doubt, be a crowd pleaser.
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decanted for an hour before the first glass was poured, both Scott and Lenny were not impressed with the taste. However, as we have found time and time again, patience is a virtue when it comes to wine. By the time we were having our last glass from this bottle, the wine had made a complete transformation from a wine that we would just as soon pass up, to a wine that was quite appealing.
The 2nd bottle was a 2014 Malbec from Washington State’s Milbrandt Vineyards.. Since we are all big fans of Malbec from Mendoza, Argentina (especially vineyards that are at least 3000 ft elevation – such wine snobs!) that Lenny thought it would be interesting to see what the USA had to offer in this grape. Everyone liked it a lot but did not feel it was as fruit forward as typical Mendoza Malbecs. Kind of a toned down version of what we are used to. Still, it was very enjoyable and the girls liked it better than the Bordeaux.
After a week off from FEWC, we finally got back together for some wine drinking… it would have been bad luck not to meet on Friday the 13th.
that I had tried at a Binny’s tasting, and liked. Over the years, us snobby FEWC members have typically turned up our noses at Pinot Noir (except French Burgundy – Oooh la la) because we have found the nose to be rather offensive. The term forest floor translates to musty mildew to us. We recently have tried a few Pinots from Oregon and found them to be much more to our liking. Everyone thought this one was very good and did not have the “Pinot” smell that we don’t like.