My old neighborhood package store is still the one where I buy my wine. I like the atmosphere and they are a helpful lot. They had Beaujolais Nouveau available starting yesterday, so I picked some up, with plans to keep some and take a few bottles when I visit my family for Thanksgiving. I asked which they recommended and they suggested this one - Domaine Pral. I looked it up when I got home:
"The Domaine Pral is a 50 acre, family owned estate, that has been organic for several generations. It is located in the heart of the “Pierres Dorees” country, 10 miles from Villefranche, which is the capital of the Beaujolais. The Domaine Pral vineyard is planted on granite soils with a South East exposure. Utilizing only sustainable farming techniques, the current winemaker is Pascal Chatelus."
My younger son told me that all his friends think I'm an alcoholic. Because of the small wine rack in my kitchen which holds a dozen bottles. And...
the bigger wine rack in the basement which holds 48 bottles. The former owners left it when they moved out and the cool temperature is perfect for storing wine. Around here, there is a pervasive belief that you are either an abstainer or a drunk. It's a Southern Baptist thing. I actually had someone explain to me that when Jesus turned water into wine during the wedding at Cana, it was unfermented wine. Unfermented. Wine. Just let that sink in for a moment. Pretty sure the guests would have considered producing grape juice for a party to be a sorry excuse for a miracle. And...
okay, probably this, too. I don't keep more than a dozen bottles of beer in my kitchen refrigerator but there is a smaller fridge in the basement, where I also store sodas and beer.
But it's not just wine and beer - I also keep the pantry and the fridge and the freezer full of food. And when I have company, I consistently cook way too much. I don't know why, but I have always been a stockpiler of food. I don't like to run out of things. Which is a little ironic since I'm actually not a big eater or drinker. But it's there if I need it. Bring on the zombies, I'll be okay for a while.
ah but you do know how to cook...at least from what i have seen so a stocked pantry is not bad at all...esp if the zombie apocalypse comes....35 days....smiles
ReplyDeleteAnd I love to have guests feel welcome and taken care of.
DeleteI'm not holding my breath on the 12th!
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DeleteSomewhere there is a bowdlerized version of Christianity with a communion of Grape Nehi.
ReplyDeleteMind if I link back so I know where your blog is, or are you incognito that way?
Actually, Baptist churches here DO use grape juice for communion.
DeleteLinking is fine - I'm no longer a secret blog except for my real name and location.
And how is the Beaujolais? Fruity, light? About 2 months is about it's shelf-life, so you'd better get busy. It's also thought of as a indicator of the year for other wines, the burgundy and bordeaux.
ReplyDeleteA votre sante!
Not sure - I plan to crack open the first bottle this weekend.
DeleteFrom what I've read, it's 6 months, although most age well enough to go a year. But I think I can easily manage to have this consumed within 6 months.
This posted by a friend today and I thought it definitely applicable to your post:
ReplyDelete"A doctor on TV said that in order to have inner peace in our lives, we should always finish things that we start. Since we all could use more calm in our lives, I looked around my house to find things I'd started & hadn't finished.
I finished a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of Chardonnay, a bodle of Baileys, a butle of wum, tha mainder of Valiuminun scriptins, an a box a choclutz. Yu has no idr how fablus I feel rite now.
Sned this to all ur frenz who need inner piss. An telum u luvum."
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DeleteDo zombies drink? Ha, they are probably Southern Baptists.
ReplyDeleteWow the Jesus miracle was grape juice! What a disappointment.
Grape juice instead of wine is just wishful thinking on their part.
DeleteI like how you prepare for any disasters and zombies that might stumble your way. I honestly think the water got turned into wine, real honest to good wine, in the Bible and I'm pretty sure it was fermented. The Bible does talk about not being drunk; I'm sure one can't get drunk off unfermented wine.
ReplyDeleteI do enjoy my glass of merlot as I read blogs in the evenings :)
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People have been making and drinking wine for some 6500 years - I am certain it was regular wine in that story. Personally, I think red wine is a gift from the gods.
DeleteCome the zombie apocalypse, you should have more than enough liquid refreshment. Not sure about the other type. Still, after half a dozen bottles, you won't notice you're hungry any more.
ReplyDeleteWe always cook far too much as well. We seem to imagine there are four of us and not two.
I have a fair amount of food, but if there really were zombies around, I think I'd rather drink. :-)
Deleteyour stores of bottles would be definitely in style of my husband:))
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DeleteYour wine(s) look fabulous. Is a package store the same as a state liquor store? The first time I heard that there were people who didn't believe the wine in the Bible was for real was on that Duggar show. Very strange. Discussed it on a message board and someone who was knowledgable on wine making said that most likely, the wine was stronger in Biblical times due to the methods, storage, etc.!
ReplyDeleteThey are private liquor stores, that sell liquor, wine and high gravity beers. Wine and beer both used to be standard fare, including for kids. And since Jesus was Jewish, he would have wine at seder starting at least at 13.
Deleteoh i attended a baptist church for years and i was suspect for all sorts of reasons....not just the wine thing. water into grape juice. i'm with you. it would have been a sorry miracle. not to mention the bible records the guests as remarking that the host had saved the best wine for the end.
ReplyDeletebottoms up, friend!
Yeah, hard to imagine them all praising particularly good grape juice!
DeleteJust another example of revisionist/wishful thinking regarding the wine-juice issue.
ReplyDeleteI love that you have so much food and drink stocked in your home. I am in awe. My shelves barely make it through a week. I end up throwing out so much of what little fresh produce I do buy, as it doesn't get used. No real oooks here. The zombies would have a feast.
It pains me to throw out produce, although I admit I've been guilty of it when I've planned poorly.
DeleteI'm that way but with paper goods: I fear a paper goods shortage: paper towels, toilet paper, napkins, printer paper.
ReplyDeleteThe idea of that gives me shivers.
Your house makes me think someone who loves to provide for company lives there. IT's a nice microcosm of you.
I actually have that, although to a slightly lesser extent, with paper products, too. And toiletries.
DeleteAnd it is very important to me to have guests here feel nurtured.
You can never have too much wine, beer and food stored! ;)
ReplyDeleteSee, that's why I like you!
DeleteI know where I'm coming when the apocalypse happens!!!
ReplyDeleteYou can't have too much wine :)
I have plenty to share!
DeleteYou're a nurturer. As for alcoholism...an alcoholic would never have that much to drink on hand! Alcoholics (at least the ones I've known) drink up their alcohol.
ReplyDeleteI like wine, especially reds, but I don't have much education about any of it. Seems interesting.
I think there are alcoholics of the hoarding variety, they just have to buy a lot more frequently than I do. But my collection (which is overwhelmingly reds) is more of the providing for others variety.
DeleteI am inviting myself over right now! ;-)
ReplyDeletep.s. My 9 yo believes that I have a drinking problem... sigh.