I am all for special occasion wine, but too many people fall into the trap of waiting for the "right" special occasion. Case in point is my wife's paternal grandmother who was recently cleaning out her kitchen cabinets and came across three bottles of "Champagne" that she was saving for a special occasion...she waited a tad too long.
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Valentine’s Day is a day that I don’t pay much attention to. When I was in middle school and had my first girlfriend I did but now Shauna and I are more concerned about what is happening on Lost and who the next survivor of Oceanic Flight 815 is. It is not that I don’t want to express my love to my wife or how much better my life is with her but it is the fact that there is a whole ad campaign telling me that my love wants the diamond circle necklace or roses or chocolate. I guess I just don’t like being told what to do…
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Who says you have to be a wine geek to drink old or odd wine (or both)? We just spent a weekend with friends on Lake Tahoe, and I brought out a few older white wines that people just fawned over. These were "little wines" - a 2001 Hochheimer Hölle Kabinett Riesling from Domdechant Werner and a white Entre-deux-Mers from Chateau Bonnet, also '01 - not immensely age worthy, but not over their prime by any means.
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