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Flash Back Vino!

Camping at Guadalupe Mountains National Park, rattlesnakes, lightening, and 103 degrees out - this life-saving wine smells of ripe plums and purple flowers, tastes smooth and metallic (drinking out of a metal canister may be an influence), makes me want PARIS. This is the wine from our wild night there! Now a total fan of the Saumur region and this 100% Cabernet Franc red.

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Wine Fest

One of the South Walton Wine Fest 2019 winners - Jean-Luc Colombo is always a favorite. This easily guzzelable beauty tastes like fields of flowers and has a certain crispness that makes it one for the record book. Their Chateauneuf-du-pape was also phenomenal!

Oh, Sud de France

This simple wine complimented a *parked* Vespa scrub and polish nicely. Taste: bright strawberry and light lemon. Made me want: lavender fields and green beans. Great find. Forget restriction, have the wine, buy the Vespa.

The wine turns to rum for the weekend - Pina Colada Adventures Ahead

I put something in each picture that reminds me of each friend I love... Good luck with the seek and find!

Spring has Sprung

Well, it is time for sippin’ on the porch in the sun. With a tiny sunburn from the beach, the afternoon was spent with this lovely Grenache with tastes of grapefruit and strawberry. Made me want to jump in the ocean and see some dolphins. Welcome Spring, welcome sun, welcome warmth. And yes, that is a pumpkin in the background leftover from Halloween, ha!

Oscars 2019

It is time for pizza, wine, and movie love. This white blend has a pleasant, mildly sweet taste with a note of grapefruit and stone. Makes me want chocolate and a Queen dance party. Hangover factor: hopefully low as the dirty call of work comes early tomorrow. 8/10

2013 Lagvinari Tsolikouri--Orange Wine from Ancient Caucasus Vines

So, I haven’t been this excited about wine in a while, as my tasting notes will atest. It is orange, it is unfiltered, it is ridiculously drinkable and I recommend the serving size read: 1 bottle. Hangover ratio: none. Price: I was drunk when I bought it, so I want to say $40?

Here are my tasting notes:

7:16 pm: It’s psychological perhaps, but all the notes are the hues and shades of orange. Not only the Penny-copper blood juice of citrus found in Old Fashioneds, but of the distilled powers of Hekate, maybe? The flavors of flame and sulphuric dust of Hades. For the vines are ancient, and primordial in the mythology of wine. And the taste of old magic, eternal fruits, gold and sun ray polls of this wine makes it an alchemical treasure, the blood of the salamander and the sweat of the ourobus are squeezed and stomped into this elixir vitae.

7:24 pm: Hail Lagvinari! For she goes down like water.

7:38 pm: With a hint of listerine?

7:39 pm: And retrosexual cologne?

8:52 pm: Orange wine is definitely fucking divine.

#Lagvinari #OrangeWine #Wine #Caucasuswine #WineTasting #Communion

Landscaping is hard

The flower beds are edged, the plants are planted, the bark is spread, the back is sore, the wine is good. OM Merlot - tastes like PG, everyday red - light and refreshing. Mom says “tastes like grapes.” Hangover factor - 2/10. Makes me want - to buy wind chimes, sit on the front porch, admire the beauty of plants. Also, mac and cheese.

Oh Canada! Oh Pasta!

This post is brought to you by the Whiskey Corespondent who has failed to figure out her password for entry to the dashboard...

Chile. A world apart. South. Under the stars. The birds There are iridescent. The whole place is long and thin where our countries are fat and wide. This Cabernet -- Reserva Petirrrojo 2017 -- has been enjoyable from a dirty glass. It's dry. Tastes of: Cherry and vanilla ... And not just cause I'm eating ice cream sandwiches while I drink it. Hangover factor: who knows Makes me want: hot desert sand on my toes and more pasta

Who am I?

I enjoyed this (dare I say it) chardonnay while walking for miles in the woods. Taste is light, crisp, and somewhat apple-rific. Hangover factor: none. Made me want to stay in the woods forever - if somehow, there could be an endless supply of the wine and food delivery. A nice surprise from our usually disappointing friend, the “chard.” I can definitely see myself having more of this in the near future. Here’s to changing it up!

Resurrect - 2019, Year of Growth, Foundation, and New Beginnings

This is from last year’s excursion to the BC mountain resort Silver Star where you are given bottles of wine to sip in hot tubs overlooking snow covered trees and glistening hills. The name of this bottle is hard to make out, but it was amazing and heightened a possibly perfect situation. We will be returning in a few weeks, so more tubs and bottles to come! Happy Winter everyone!

Happy Second Birthday Vinderful! Happy second bottle, friends!

This bottle is in honor of me and my fellow wine correspondent's grim opinion of our newly accepted full time jobs (it is also to honor the 3rd correspondent, for she has maintained employment for a while now). As much as we tried to thwart reality and stay happily unemployed forever, the jobs have found us and smacked us in the face with a little taste of adulthood. SO, here's to now affordable, somewhat more expensive, definitely more frequent red wine! May it give us the umph we need to live through this thing, may it remind us of future adventures and may it allow for happy reminiscing of our past 2 years and fuel our desire for the next round.

This particular bottle is woody with a lingering mineral finish. Couple that with dark cherries. Affordable with a high rating and easy to drink. I enjoyed inside the pool escaping the 110 degree heat index of the day.

"A sweet, rich, fragrant, pure expression of refined Pinot Noir that, after half an hour, was fully aroused, more soft fruit, with a hint of raspberry. On the palate, it was distinctly sweet, mouth-filling yet with a relatively modest alcoholic content (13%), a velvety texture, a touch of sprightliness and a refreshing finish" ... or so they say - we don't really have the $6,000 a glass it would take to find out for ourselves.

Remember kids, drink your wine before it turns to dust.

It was a three-bottle kind of night.

#wine #drinking

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