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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2008 “Bebame” Red, El Dorado County, California
Cabernet Franc (65%) and Gamay (35%) from - gasp - California! And only 13% ABV, pretty modest by California standards. If I tasted this blind I would probably have said it’s from the Loire Valley. It has pretty much nothing in common with the full bodied iterations of Cab Franc coming out of Napa. Juicy, light, delicious quaffing wine.$18 a bottle
2006 Telegramme Chateauneuf-du-Pape Rouge
Really balanced and smooth, this is a bargain of a Chateauneuf. Yeah, the 07s are lauded but what would I prefer to drink? This! It’s the second label of Vieux Telegraphe, from the same property but from younger vines. And it’s a deal at $33 a bottle.2006 or bust!
NV Barcino Cava: LA Times Wine of the Week!
Delicious and just in time for New Year’s Eve…this is the LA Times Wine of the Week, and we have plenty in stock. Order online, pick-up in-store!$14 a bottle!
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Wine Retail and Social Media: Yeah, I Should Be Blogging…:
But I’m not. Funny, it was pointed out to me that domaine547.com appears as a successful example of social media in wine (juxtaposed against the Wine Spectator of all things) in this recent presentation (see slide #25). I guess they haven’t looked at the blog lately; it hasn’t been updated in weeks.
Really, in my internet-only days, I never understood why Brick and Mortar retailers didn’t take the time to blog. Now I know. They don’t have the time!
Seriously. Even in the downtime when there aren’t any customers — which, let’s face it, exists in decent quantity — there’s always something to be done at the store that takes priority…from the very lowly tasks, like sweeping, to the equally tedious but still mundane paying of bills, or putting price labels on bottles, to tasting wine with reps, it all has to get done. And I am here without support staff a fair amount of the time.
Suffice it to say, to all those out there giving speeches about social media and the importance of it to branding for wineries and wine stores, people, for the most part, get it. I know I get it! But finding the time is another story. And finding a voice? Even harder.
So at the moment, what I’m doing is tweeting (@domaineLA), because tweeting is very time un-intensive. A tweet takes a few seconds, and I think I get both my voice and my point (when I have one) across in these little quick spurts. I don’t know that it’s enough, but at least it’s something.
I really hope to get back to blogging soon. I swear, I do! But right now I have something very important to do, so you’ll have to excuse me while I go empty the trash can in the bathroom…
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Frizzante
From Wikipedia: Frizzante is an Italian wine term term for semi-sparkling wine (as opposed to Spumante, which is generally used for fully sparkling wines). Frizzante wines generally owe their bubbles to a partial secondary fermentation in tank. You might notice a light fizz or tingly sensation on the tongue with a Frizzante wine, compared to the more carbonated sensation that more fully sparkling wines yield.
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Okay, so we made up this word yesterday after a great restaurant experience. We brought a bottle of wine with us, expecting to pay a corkage fee. But the restaurant either forgot to charge us the $15, or decided to be nice to us. We scored! Hence, “scorekage” has entered our lexicon. This can also refer to BYO friendly restaurants that don’t charge for corkage under any circumstances.
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January 14th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I am so thrilled that you have discovered wine for breakfast! Not that we condone drinking in the morning…but we do like having breakfast for dinner…and if we are having dinner…ya gotta have wine! Glad you enjoyed our Michel-Schlumberger Pinot Blanc. It is a house favorite and goes so well so many foods & situations. C’mon up to the Estate and we’ll walk you around the vineyards (organically farmed) and see the Pinot Blanc up close & personal.
January 15th, 2009 at 8:44 am
YUM! Lox’n'Eggs! I think we’re on to something here. Our smoked salmon savory waffles was AMAZING with Pinot Blanc!
Three cheers for wine with breakkie. Er, i mean, breakfast foods of course!