essex wine report

I’m sorry I’m rather tardy this week but yesterday was a bad day and I really didn’t want to slag anything due to one little furry female. She’s only a kitten but she is terrible. Tso has nicknamed her tod…trail of destruction. She’s only about 2 pounds but she’s pure evil. Vlad likes her so I guess she stays.

Well I am having some smoked salmon(very smoked). Goat cheese, some dried Italian sausage and cheese with some bread.

Music wise it is John Coltrane’s Dakar. This album is a classic. Simply wonderful.

The wine is from Aleksander. They are one of my favorite winemakers and are just really nice people. Izabel will be/is an all-star. I remember talking to a winemaker in Niagara, who spoke of a winery down here and when we figured it out it was Aleksander and he had was speaking of her. Well dad has made good wine for a while and I just see so much good coming from this winery. They do fruit wine too which I think really sets this area apart.

The wine is their Cabernet Franc. I guess I am predicable, but I like Cab Franc a lot and was really interested in seeing how this one tasted.

I tried it prior to aerating and it was good. It had a lot of flavor and was rather nice. After aerating it became much better, I don’t get a lot of nose but a muted berry flavor. Prior to aerating, I got alot…very strange. The color is the typical clear, claret color.

The taste is very nice. I find this wine very smooth and enjoyable. It is very smooth. Nice berry taste, I’m getting raspberry for some reason. This wine is perfect for food as it isn’t terribly assertive. It would complement a variety of food thus making it very very useful.

I like this wine ans typical of an Aleksander product it is restrained and doesn’t attack. It is cool and laid back, kinda like the family.

By now I guess all have read about the Menu-Foods fiasco. This brings several issues to me and causes much concern.

Why are we importing wheat from china? Do we not grow enough? And where was the quality control department? How does this impact human grade food?

Quite simply stated can we trust food coming from third world countries who allow practices and use chemicals which we will not allow.

There is a movement, Green actually, that wants people to shop for food grown around their homes. I advocate that as it will be fresh and hopefully safer. If you know the farmer then hopefully he will not poison you. It just seems scary that we buy food from all over the world and suffer. Hepatitis from Mexican onions and contaminated spinach from California.

I do not advocate trade barriers, that got us the Great Depression and WW2. Maybe we should check better, be careful and just buy as much as we can local.

Luckily vlad eats nothing from Menu Foods….sometimes I wish Sasce did, but she is being so good tonight…she knows I’m pissed at her.