Fun Wine Dinner – Arizona

Ran into an old friend that works for Flemmings Restuarant at Park West Peoria Arizona. They are hosting a Wine Dinner featuring Mick Fleetwood Riesling & Doobie Red. Food looks amazing with Groovy Goat chees & Oven Dried Tomato Crostini matched with Double Platinum Champagne Cocktail – and that is just to start! Rockin Shrimp, Killer Filet Mignon and more all of $55 a person. Two Dates: Tuesday March 10th and Friday March 13 – 6:30pm.
Find out more at: www.flemingssteakhouse.com

Tell Jenny I sent you!

I knew Doobie Red Wine was produced by long time Doobie Brother’s Manager Bruce Cohn at his Br Cohn Winery in Sonoma. But I didn’t know the wine was created as a tribute to Doobie Brother’s drummer Keith Knudsen and the proceeds from Doobie Red benefit the National Veterans Foundation.   Very Cool!

I have not had this little wine but the dinner sounds like a terrific bargain to invite a few friends to and enjoy some wine conversation.

If you go let me know!

First Wine Mecca Blog

My first dip into a blog of my own.  I have written for others but never for myself!  I look forward to hearing from other wine “geeks” like me.  “Geek”, a well used wine term, really is not what you think.  I call myself a geek because  wine is a hobby and I like to know a little more than just the vintage and varietal.  Learning the details of each wine, winery, winemaker, vineyard dynamics, and etc is exciting and fun.  And explains a lot of the what I like / or dislike about the wine.

So as I write my first post to the Wine Mecca Blog I am enjoying a glass of a new Malbec I found from an Argentina producer: Valentin Bianchi “Famiglia” 2006  – San Rafael, Mendoza.  Inky and dark with full fruit flavors of ripe plums and berries yet soft and silky with a long lingering finish of cedar and leather.  Smooth and delicious.  I found mine at WineStyles – Tatum & Shea Paradise Valley,AZ – around $19 – if I remember right.

Keeping  it short and sweet tonight – Let me know if you tried it.  Or what other Malbecs you have tried.