I certainly do not want to poke fun at the seriousness of the Coronavirus, as the World Health Organization has called it a pandemic, but I will poke a little fun at those hoarding toilet paper. I don’t want 600 rolls of toilet paper, but I wouldn’t mind having a few extra bottles of wine in the rack. As a matter of fact, I was coming into my building this morning with some groceries, one package of toilet paper, and some wine. One of my neighbours said “stocking up for Armageddon”, to which I replied yes – one package of toilet paper and lots and lots of wine!
Remember I was telling you I had a wine tasting last Saturday night and it went fantastic. It was a group of ladies and we had some good food, some great wine and a lot of laughs. I really enjoy doing the winetasting, and a big thanks to Lucy for having me over with her friends. Let me tell you about some of the wines we enjoyed! I do have permission to use this picture.
We started with a sparkling wine, the Mionetto Prestige Prosecco Brut.
I explained to the group, some people think that all sparkling wines are sweet. I bring a sparkling wine to most of my wine tastings, and so many people are always surprised that it’s never a sweet one. So I’m going to tell you what I told them, if you see the word Brut on the label you can rest assured it’s not sweet, it’s dry. This fantastic Italian Prosecco is just $19.99 a bottle, such a great deal because it’s really good. The hostess laid out beautiful charcuterie board last weekend and this was a perfect way to start the wine tasting, because sparkling dry Prosecco always goes well with appetizers and charcuterie boards.
I bought this wine which I was telling you about last weekend, because it’s one of my new favourite white wines. It’s new to the NSLC, so if you haven’t tried it pick it up it’s only $18 a bottle and very good.
One of the other white wines we had was a pleasant surprise to some of the ladies, as there was some people who thought they didn’t like Chardonnay. This particular Chardonnay is from Chile, Caliterra was actually started in the mid 90s by Robert Mondavi, of the famed Mondavi Vineyards in the Napa Valley. It’s not an overly oaky Chardonnay, and a great value in my opinion it just $18 a bottle.
my wine of the week was the winner of last weeks wine-tasting….
From Battle Creek Cellars comes the Unconditional Pinot Noir from Oregon. Unconditionally delicious, and unconditional quality make for a vibrant Pinot Noir. The vineyard slogan is “Elegance without the Ego”. It’s a treat at $33 a bottle, but everyone deserves a treat every once in a while. Wine critic James suckling gave it 90 points and I love that they only use 10% new oak in making this great wine, the oak softened the wine without making it oaky.
That’s it for this week, till next week, cheers
Darlene
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