Wine Blogging Wednesday #53: Wine For Breakfast

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I had a little trouble with this Wine Blogging Wednesday assignment. I’ve never been much of a daytime drinker, and though I can’t say for certain why, it might have something to do with my upbringing that exposed me to wine about once a year, during the annual Passover Seder (always after sundown!). For those of you who aren’t familiar, the Seder has its participants drinking four cups of wine over the course of the evening.

In my family, however, the four cups of wine were more like four sips, my finger getting more of a taste of the stuff than my mouth, during the recitation of the ten plagues, in which one’s pinky marks a drop on a plate for each epidemic, infestation, and outbreak leading up to the exodus. I actually think we should add an eleventh plague, a drip acknowledging how wretched the Concord Grape wine is itself, but that’s another story.

I won’t draw conclusions about my larger cultural background having to do anything with my lack of daytime drinking (though I think it’s probably not a stretch to say that “my people” aren’t known as big drinkers). But my heritage indeed led me to my menu for this WBW, as my meal consisted of Scrambled Eggs with Lox, a very Jew-y kind dish. I could only muster breakfast-for-dinner if wine were involved, and I hope that’s not too much of a cop-out.

The wine I paired wtih my Lox ‘n Eggs was the 2007 Michel-Schlumberger Pinot Blanc “La Bise,” a dry white that has ample fruit and acidity to balance both the saltiness of the salmon, and the creamy/dairy aspects of the egg dish. I hadn’t looked at the winery notes before selecting this, but find it amusing that they consider this their “brunch wine,” and a great substitute for sparkling wines.

The pairing worked out well. I think next time I’ll take a walk on the wild side and try some wine with breakfast-as-breakfast. Maybe I’ll be truly adventurous and do steak and eggs with a red…well, that’s probably pushing goyishe extremes. I’ll probably start out with some more Lox ‘n Eggs, before noon. Baby steps!

A big thanks as always to Lenn for creating Wine Blogging Wednesday, and to El Jefe for hosting this month. Cheers!

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