Today Cooper told me he wanted to watch "Meatballs." A few weeks ago we went to the dollar theatre and saw "Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs." Cooper did great until the last 25 minutes of the movie, and Noah had to take him out of the theatre. So they both missed the ending. We really hadn't talked about the movie since that day, so I was surprised he remembered. So I made an evening of it, and I bought him the movie and made spaghetti and meatballs for dinner. I bought a Pinot Noir to pair with the red sauce. I was trying to be cheap, so I bought the cheapest one I could find at target, with was a Barefoot for $4.99.
I smelled like cherry and spices, and tasted about the same. For being named "medium bodied" on the bottle, it was a bit bland. I'm not complaining though, because I don't mind bland! It was just drying enough to make you want to take another bite of dinner. It went well with the meatballs, and probably would have went really well with a red meat like steak. For under $5, I thought it was pretty darn good!
Barefoot just released their Pinot Noir last May (first to those who special ordered cases, and then eventually it was released to the stores). Since, it has gotten all 5 star ratings on their website by visiting guests! I'm pretty impressed.
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Saturday, February 20, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
2008 Vintage Mark West Pinot Noir
Last night we celebrated my 26th birthday at Chopstix with some friends and family. Ken ordered a bottle of 2008 Vintage Mark West Pinot Noir, and we all got a chance to enjoy it. I must say, it had great flavor. It was a very heavy wine, with dark fruit flavors (cherry, strawberry, plum maybe?) but also had a kick of spice to it. It was oaky, but fit the flavor right.
I don't have the bottle obviously, so I can't quote the labels description, but I did skim over the Mark West website today. The 2008 Pinot actually won a lot of awards! It was #1 in its catergory in the Wine Trials. (Basically it is a big blind tasting, where they use paper bags to cover the bottles, and the best wines are chosen based on flavor. It also was named the "Steal of the Year" By Sunset magazine. But anyway, I found it neat that this wine is 100% pinot noir grapes...no mix. They are grown, vinted and aged in California.
I've enjoyed leasrning a little bit about each winery, wine and vineyard with each bottle I open. OH, and for my birthday, Teri bought me red wine glasses. Now we can successfully swirl our wine without sloshing. :-)
I don't have the bottle obviously, so I can't quote the labels description, but I did skim over the Mark West website today. The 2008 Pinot actually won a lot of awards! It was #1 in its catergory in the Wine Trials. (Basically it is a big blind tasting, where they use paper bags to cover the bottles, and the best wines are chosen based on flavor. It also was named the "Steal of the Year" By Sunset magazine. But anyway, I found it neat that this wine is 100% pinot noir grapes...no mix. They are grown, vinted and aged in California.
I've enjoyed leasrning a little bit about each winery, wine and vineyard with each bottle I open. OH, and for my birthday, Teri bought me red wine glasses. Now we can successfully swirl our wine without sloshing. :-)
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