Wine

174 bottles of wine on the wall

June 26, 2009

174 bottles of wine… We’ve started on the second, and final, phase of our kitchen expansion and remodeling project. Goodbye 1970′s bar complete with smokey mirrors. Hello huge eat-in kitchen complete with cabinet space! We’ll be back later this summer! -XOXO

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Like two kids in a candy store

June 7, 2008

I love summer; an admission that comes from someone who: 1) Is not a student or a teacher 2) Hates our Seventh-Circle-of-Hell-Hot weather 3) Has had one too many slices of chocolate cake to wear a bikini 4) Cowers in a corner in the fetal position after the electricity bill comes in Still, even in [...]

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Blackberry and Pinot Noir Glazed Meatballs

January 1, 2008

My husband and I took on the title of “home vintners” some time ago and we bottled our first four wines last year: Riesling, Pinot Noir, Pinot Grigio, and a Port. We always considered ourselves “white wine people” but our reds won our hearts over rather quickly. Our Port is our baby – it’s produced [...]

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Have Wine. Will Drink.

August 19, 2007

While we’re waiting on the pizza delivery guy to show up with dinner, Jason is enjoying a horrifically violent game on his new Xbox 360 (an early anniversary/thanks for the kitchen present) and I’m enjoying a glass of our first Pinot Grigio. What an evening The kitchen is coming along nicely – all the electrical [...]

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Seis de mayo

May 6, 2007

Aka, “The Aftermath.” The bar is littered with empty Sauza and margarita mix bottles and the leftover fajitas and fixins tucked away safely in the fridge. No complaining about how much we (and by “we,” I mean “I“) drank or how poor the Rockets played last night – we got work to do! Jason and [...]

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Wine Notes

March 31, 2007

We bottled our first batch of Riesling seven weeks ago tonight. When we decided to try our hand at becoming home vintners, one of the things that most excited me was designing a label (besides actually making the vino, of course!). Conveying excitement, thought, anticipation, passion, hard work, failure, success, and devotion onto a piece [...]

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Only three months left

January 22, 2007

Our hobby, our baby. Some people have their dogs, some have their children, we have “Ries.” Ries, our first child is due in the middle of March. What’s different about Ries? She’s not a real child. She’s not a puppy – heck, she’s not even a fluffy, pretty kitty. Ries is actually the first wine [...]

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Colosi’s Sicilia Rosso 2004

December 15, 2006

I don’t like merlot. Or maybe the taste of merlot is just a taste I have not yet acquired. Either way, I don’t like merlot has somehow morphed into we don’t drink red wine. My husband and I decided that there were at least 2 other reds that we knew of that we could try [...]

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