French Wine and a Snugie Update....

Now if that isn't a great title--full of intrigue....right? I have had a number (okay 2-3) of you express concern over the status of our purchase (or lack of purchase) of a Snugie. Just to keep you all updated...we have not purchased the family pack of Snugie's--many of you have expressed your love for the Snugie and last night at Wine Club, Appy modeled the Snugie and showed us with what ease you can answer the phone, read a book and drink a glass of wine with your Snugie....so I get it...it would be a good purchase and perhaps one day we will be lucky enough to own Snugies...again stay tuned!

On to wine club night--the theme for this month's meeting was broad...the wines of France. I have always said that I was not a big fan of French wines--but I really didn't have a lot of experience in drinking French wines....so with that off we went to wine club. Click here for a little background on the Bordeaux Districts. We tasted 6 bottles of wine in a blind tasting--most of them we thought were simply "okay".....not great...not awful...just "okay". The results were extremely interesting....Most of us preferred the one bottle of wine that was from the Cotes du Rhone region as opposed to the Bordeaux and the vintages that were 2004 and above needed to be cellared much longer as the 2000 and the 2003 bottles we tried were better. The two most expensive bottles ($50/each) were ranked 5th and 6th out of 6 wines....hmmm not so hot and a pure disappointment for the couple that brought those two bottles. For those curious about what we drank, any rating they might have had and the cost see below....our next "meeting" will occur in April...the wines of Italy ( Chianti has been outlawed)--this is another area I am not very familiar.....sampling wine for the purpose of education is a tough job but somebody has to do it!

#1--Domaine Zede-Margaux--$42

#2--2000 Domaine du Haut Calvaire--Marianne and Etienne Chambon (purchased while we were in France for the Tour de France in 2004-can't remember how much we spent...less then $20)

#3--Chateau Vieux Prezat--Medoc--$15 (after it was decanted--it was decent)

#4--2003 Font Villac--St. Emilion--$32

#5--Chateau Monbousquet--St. Emilion--90 points Robert Parker--$50

#6-- Chateau Rauzan Segla--Margaux-90points Wine Spectator--$50