Uncorked Ontario

Easter dinner is always a big event around our house. Perhaps not on the same level as Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner however it is right up there.

Friends and family often ask me what wine I will have on the table during these big feast. I usually give this a good deal of thought and consideration before making the wine selections.

So what red and wine wines did we have on our table today?

The red was D’Angelo Estate Old Vines Foch Reserve 2005. (See Tuesday’s Essex Wine Review for my thoughts on this wine). We recently had D’Angelo Estate Old Vines Foch 2002 and loved it so the 2005 reserve was a good pick. By the way the D’Angelo’s 2005 Old Vines Foch Reserve was a Double Gold award winner at the ”All Canadian Wine Championship“. Another good reason to select this wine.

The white wine selection was Erie Shore 2006 Unoaked Chardonnay. Wanda and I like this wine, we had it on the table at Christmas, it was good then so why change a good thing. One thing about the Chardonnay, I like it best slightly chilled, actually almost room temperature. For me, that is when this wine taste the best.

Gary

This was sent to me, kind of funny so I thought I would pass it along.

Wine and Water

To my friend who enjoys a glass of wine.. . and those who don’t. As Ben Franklin said:
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.

In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 litre of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. coli) – bacteria  found in feces.

In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop.

However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine & beer (or tequila, rum, whisky or other liquor), because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.
 
Remember:     
Water = Poop,        Wine = Health .

Therefore, it’s better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of shit.