Musings

Had bought a few bottles of a cheap Nero d'Avola at TJ's a while back, and went to open one recently. After taking out the cork I turned away to put the cork on the counter, and when I turned back the bottle was foaming over. Like sparkling wine or beer. Not something I have ever experienced - I mean, I have had wines that are a bit spritzy (or "frizzante"), but this was something else. After clean up, I opened another one. Same thing. Then the last one. Same thing again. Clearly the wine was not stable and was refermenting in the bottle. Interesting.

Kudos to TJ's. Took the three bottles back with no receipt, they looked up the normal prices and gave me a refund.

Last night in SF with Annette, we went out for dinner before going to the Melody Gardot concert at the Palace of Fine Arts (great singer, by the way, but not much of a performer). Dinner was at a little pub style place near the concert called Liverpool Lils. Had a bottle of zin called Teira from the 06 vintage. This is a Sonoma product. I had never heard of it, but it was actually pretty good. Only 13.5% alc which is hard to find these days in a zin.

7 days until the scary wine tasting.......