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My mom drinks olive oil straight up
Lately I've been trying to get a feel for my mother's taste in red wines. Last Christmas I struck out big time with a bottle of Chateauneuf-du-Pape, proving that indeed, one woman's trash is another woman's treasure. Her opinion was somewhere in between "WHAT were you THINKING?" and "Please pour the rest of my glass down the drain." I quickly snagged it from her and drank it myself. Man that's good wine.
On the way back from Yosemite I tasted two wines that I thought might work. Not too big or tannic, but peppery and not all that fruity. It's a hard balance to strike. I snagged a bottle of each.
Did you know that shipping wine is prohibited for random folk like you and me in the States? That (federal) law keeps getting changed and challenged, but at the moment, you can't do it without a license -- no matter the amount of wine, the distance, or whether it's to a family member or even yourself at a separate address. (Guns do better than that, if only because a dealer license is more readily obtainable. Stick 'em up! I've got a Chardonnay!)
Fortunately, it turns out that Mt. Brow Winery in Tuolomne County makes some lovely bottles of fine olive oil. They're dark red and quite tasty. My mother reports that their Sangiovese olive oil is particularly scrumptious. She likes their Zinfandel olive oil too. Woohoo! I score a point in the game of learning my mom's taste inwine fine cooking ingredients.
On the way back from Yosemite I tasted two wines that I thought might work. Not too big or tannic, but peppery and not all that fruity. It's a hard balance to strike. I snagged a bottle of each.
Did you know that shipping wine is prohibited for random folk like you and me in the States? That (federal) law keeps getting changed and challenged, but at the moment, you can't do it without a license -- no matter the amount of wine, the distance, or whether it's to a family member or even yourself at a separate address. (Guns do better than that, if only because a dealer license is more readily obtainable. Stick 'em up! I've got a Chardonnay!)
Fortunately, it turns out that Mt. Brow Winery in Tuolomne County makes some lovely bottles of fine olive oil. They're dark red and quite tasty. My mother reports that their Sangiovese olive oil is particularly scrumptious. She likes their Zinfandel olive oil too. Woohoo! I score a point in the game of learning my mom's taste in
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Or maybe I'm not very discriminating. No, that can't be it.
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It's a dirty system, out to make the big guys (wholesalers) rich at the expense of the small guys (small wineries and consumers).
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Some day I want to know how I can buy my own federal law. You are not allowed to send a letter unless you are CJ SMITH!!!!!!! But she'll post one for you, for the low low fee of $1.29!
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But yeah, the law was specifically set up to screw small wineries and people. They claim it was to protect those under 18 from getting booze. Some how they get the booze anyway. But Big Business gets bigger with the new system. Funny thing.
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It's a stupid law. (I sneak wine into my packages. Shhh. Don't tell anyone. BevMo sells those really nice Styrofoam wine shippers, and I put the wine in the middle of a bigger box and wrap bubble wrap around it and put it in a bunch of Styrofoam peanuts and it always gets where it's going. I sent cognac that way once, too.)
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mmm, Chateauneuf-du-Pape
Re: mmm, Chateauneuf-du-Pape
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