This and that.

I accidentally ran across a local wine producer who has a store front here in town. It's called Water 2 Wine It looked a little fancy and I was just in my normal T-shirt and jeans/baseball cap, but I said fuck it and went in anyway. There were 20 foot tall racks of wine and a large wooden bar off to one side. But no obvious bottles for sale.

A lady came up and asked me if I needed help. So I told her that I wanted to pick up something nice for the wife for mother's day. She told me that their wine is completely different because they don't ship their wine, they don't have to use preservatives so she recommended I taste before buying.

I picked a pino noir, she poured a tiny glass and after tasting it I was shocked..it tasted completely different from store bought wines. It was exceptionally good. I tried 2 more and ended up buying one bottle of each. I would have bought more but I couldn't do any more tasting on an empty stomach without getting buzzed. They also have a setup where you can create your own personal batch of 30 bottles of wine in their winery under their tutelage, choose from a hundred different varieties of grapes, you go back in 6 weeks later, bottle it, and even make your own label.

Pretty cool!

I might take the wife next week when she is on vacation so we can make our own batch of wine.