The First

For those of you following the link from our website, you'll note that this is not our first wine review, nor certainly our last. For those of you just joining us for the first time, welcome! We've been posting wine recommendations on our family website for a couple of years now, and we just decided to post them publicly. We are by no means wine experts; in fact, the more we drink, the more we realize that we have only begun to experience the wonderful world of wine! Since we enjoy trying new bottles, and are fortunate enough to have an excellent wine store nearby, we want to pass on our recommendations and hopefully read some of yours.

Anyway, our goal is to post one wine review per week, hopefully each Saturday, as our Blog name would indicate. We usually try bottles ranging from $4 to $30, and we look for wines a little bit out of the ordinary - varietals that are less common or wines from other parts of the world besides California and France. And we try not to get too technical; after all, we're definitely not professionals.

This weekend, we opened a wonderful rosé : Ortman Family Vineyards 2005 Paso Robles Syrah Rosé . Daryl described this as "vibrant and exciting", and Kath declared it "beautiful". It really is a lovely, dry rosé , with hints of strawberry, and it smoothly strokes the palate with an elegant finish
(*ahem*, Kath is also an aspiring romance writer). It went very well with grilled chicken and steamed broccoli, and we think it would nicely complement a risotto. This is one of the better wines that we have enjoyed this spring, and at around $19, it comes highly, highly recommended.


Cheers!