Venge Syrah 2004

Celebrating a rare child free night with a steak and an amazing bottle of wine from Venge Vineyards. Back before kids and mortgages and whatnot we traveled out to Napa and found Venge who instantly became our favorites! We signed up for the wine club and loved a couple years of membership before the kids started soaking up the extra cash...

Ah memories of before kids. Anyway, this 2004 Syrah was still in great form. Deep red, tannic, dark fruit depth. Smooth mouth feel, berry/jam/earthy finish. 

LOVE this wine and pretty much all things Venge!

Celebrating our one month old

Baby E is one month old today. Hard to believe he's already been with us a month when it felt like forever for him to arrive!

We are celebrating with an Adobe Red from Clayhouse Wines (CA) given to us as a gift from work. It's a combination of six varietals and complex. Has earthy, plum, fruity characteristics. We are a bit out of our wine tasting snobbery so this will have to do. We are at least enjoying a nice glass together - it's been awhile!

Side note - goes well with mint chocolate.

hey there, wine readers.  we've taken a bit of a hiatus from the blog since one of us had to go get pregnant…however, we're within a couple weeks from being able to drink wine again.  and blog about it.

Grand Marais Free Range Red

Celebrating Mother's Day in Grand Marais - one of our favorite places in the world! Had a Rex-Goliath Free Range Red. Good cheap red that we enjoyed while playing backgammon with lake Superior in the background!

Baldacci Cabernet Sauvignon 2003

We are celebrating our community garden tonight with some bacon wrapped tenderloin steaks from Buch's (amazing) and this wonderful Cab from our Napa trip in 2007.

Description: Baldacci Brenda Cabernet Sauvignon 2003 - very thick, tannic wine. Glad we are having good steaks with it.

Aroma - blueberry jam and earthy characteristics
Taste - earthy, berry - blackberry or currant, leathery, smokey, tannic (almost hides berry).

Really enjoyed this wine.

A: 96
E: 97

Sterling Sauvignon Blanc

This is a great white wine on a nice night in NOLA. I'm enjoying this vino (E) while A enjoys gin & tonic.

Description: the wine is clear, crisp and fruity. Citrus with melon characteristics. Fresh tasting - slightly sweet.
Rating: 95

2005 Amiata Sangiovese from Italia

We had this deep vino for our roasted corn and avocado salsa steak tonight.
Description: deep red, tobacco like an old cigar, had to breathe for awhile - bitter on opening. Aroma: not good. Don't smell it.
Overall: Both wouldn't do over.

A: 84 points
E: 75 points (as A laughs)