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Sunday, November 06, 2005

A Bottle of Wine

With all that is going on some positive, some negative sometimes it is just nice to sit back after a fat t-bone steak with a good cigar and an excellent cabernet franc from Venezio vinyards in the foothill gold country as good as anything from Napa. The number of vintners in Ca. have doubled in the last few years with some really good wines and a great atmosphere for tasting their products. I have visited quite extensively some of the viticultural centers and have been to a few major wine affairs. The foothill regions are growing very quickly with many boutique wineries in absolutely charming and beautiful settings, and tasting is for the most part free, charges for tasting their top vintages waived if you buy and you get to keep the glass. Though zinfadel is the main product and offered in many forms from lite roses to deep rich jammy late harvests and port. Petite syrah, syrah, both cabernets and many other classic French and Italian varietals do very well and are producing some outstanding wines with both Rhone and Bordeaux blends well represnted as well as some of the best domestic ports, classic and varietal. Right now the big-leaf maples, oaks and other hardwoods provide a colorful contrast to the ubiquitous evergreens and the temperatures are very pleasant and new releases are out. I missed the harvest festival this year but reports just weeks prior point to another outstanding year. I can buy very drinkable wine at the local grocery store for $2.00 a bottle, very good wine for $10-25 in the foothills with the top reserves going for $25-75 a bottle. In Napa an average wine will cost $5 to taste and cost $35 on average. Me, I will stick to the foothills and as I have extended before, the offer to show blogger buddies around if they make it here.
If you came here for a political rant tonight sorry, if you wish to learn, start at the top of the blogroll and go from there and don't miss the links they provide. I see no need for me to duplicate the efforts of those far more knowledgeble than I. Hugh, Michele, Charles, Ed and a raft of others have detailed analysis on everything from the GWOT to the Paris riots and the economy. I choose to celebrate continued good news from the front and the strong advance of conservative ideas here, even our lone Dem at the shop was speaking conservative talking points the other day on the importance of marriage and family. I play conservative talk radio in the shop and I guess he is listening, he really is the type the Dems need, a centrist with strong belief in family, a normal family.

5 comments:

tugboatcapn said...

Your friend certainly sounds like the type that the Dems need...

I personally believe that there are far more of that type among the rank and file Democrats than of the raving moonbat lefties. But thanks to McCain Finegold, the moonbats are where the money comes from. (Despite my hatred for McCain, this is actually a good thing for Republicans. He may single-handedly be responsible for the political downfall of the Left.)

As to the wine thing, I have never really liked it myself, preferring to get my alcohol from Anhieser Busch, or from the hills of Tennessee. However My wife loves the stuff (in moderate amounts) and your post was very informative (as your posts always are).

Goat said...

Cap'n, I contribute to the Busch and Coors families as well as some really really good micro breweries around here, LOL. Thanks for the compliment, I do alot of reading and I search for the very best ananysis and direct news I can find for myself and my peers.That is why I am a serious fan of the blogosphere and we are facing some touchy legislation. We are free speech at its finest, far left to far right and kids having fun communicating as we adults are just overblown versions of children. I love it, the American electorate going crazy with freedom! Only the far left has proven violent so far. Here it is showing the power of free people, in France, it is showing the weakness and failure of socialism at its finest weakness.

Gyrobo said...

I know nothing about wine, but I still like to go up to people and pretend that I'm an expert. I used to do something similar at the State Department. They made me a consultant and paid me a six figure salary.

Goat said...

I read the American Thinker and Spectator as well Sheepdog but thanks for pointing the others to the great site. And Thank You for the esteemed bloc you put me in.

Goat said...

Add the Fourth Rail and always check Mike Yon, Sheepdog, LGF will keep you cued on the loonbat splats. Michelle runs the conservative scandal sheet looking at the left. I need to add Captain's Corner and a few more milblogs to my roll.