For the past few Sundays a bunch of friends, my wife and I have been going to a really cool wine bar called
13 Celsius. On Sundays they have half off of all the bottles that were opened on Saturday. It's super affordable and we get to taste a whole bunch of varietals for super cheap. Anyway last Sunday we broke with tradition and went to
Block 7 Wine Company to go taste Educated Guess Cabernet, which a friend of mine has been raving about and we really wanted to taste. Unfortunately they were sold out and instead we got a bottle of 2007 Spellbound Cabernet, it really was not great and tasted strongly of fake lemon juice. I didn't think it was terrible but some people at the table felt it was the worst bottle of wine they had ever had. Strong words!
After that we decided to head over to our place to open a couple of bottles that we had at home. We had a great Beckmen Vineyards 2006 Purisma Mountain Vineyard Syrah from Santa Ynez Valley, which was a unexpected gift from an awesome customer of mine. It was bold and sweet and seriously delicious. After that we opened a bottle of Domaine Carneros Brut which was delicious and reminded me of Appletizer, my favorite soda growing up in South Africa. The Brut was delicate and I don't think it was a good idea drinking it after such a big Syrah but I think everyone still enjoyed it.
We really had a great night but I think we will stick to 13 Celsius on Sundays from now on.
