March 25, 2007

Today was the monthly gathering of the "SAWG" members. A group of "winos" that get together once a month to taste wine, eat food and catch up with the latest. The months hosting member provides a main dish and sets the "wine" theme and everyone else brings the extra food dishes and a bottle of wine that matches the theme.

Most people seem to really enjoy coming up with new ideas for their food dishes and we also have some old favorites that we hope someone will bring. I think some of us come for the food more than the wine.

I will not go into too much detail about the 29 wines that were opened that day. Too lengthy and boring. But one such wine was a nice treat. It was interesting to taste a vertical of BV Tapestry, 1992, 1993 and 1994. They were all different. The 1993 was the one that I liked the least but since I did not get a chance to get a second taste , it may have evolved after a few hours of being opened.

A couple of others that I personally liked were the 2003 Terlato, Angels Peak, 2004 Cain Cuvee and the 2004 Stelzner Claret.