Tonight I played Sommelier for Josh and Katy, who came over to watch my DVD of “Spellbound.” (Not the fantastic Hitchcock movie, but the fantastic documentary about the National Spelling Bee. I love it!)
Josh and Katy sat on the couch with Lauren.
“Do you have anything to drink?” asked Katy.
“Oh, I’m fine,” I said.
“I mean, for me?” she pressed.
“Oh,” I said.
“There’s beer and Smirnoff Ice,” offered Lauren.
“Mmmhmm,” said Katy, her body language gesturing towards the wine on our counter.
“And there’s wine,” I said.
“Perfect!” said Katy eagerly.
We selected a chilled bottle of Chardonnay from the fridge.
I know nothing about wine. This Chardonnay is Alamos. Is that good? Is that bad? I know nothing about wine.
I presented the wine to Greedy Wine-Drinker Katy:
I poured a drop into her glass.
She sipped expertly.
“Delicious!” she declared.
I poured everyone a glass:
We agreed that it was oaky. (“Why don’t you write a book about it,” says John Steinbeck.) I suggested that there was an apricot undertaste. Katy nodded. Did she agree?
“This wine is really good,” she concluded.
“Yes,” we agreed and watched the movie.
Hey amateur gourmet,
you were on to something with the alamos. it’s argentine, and argentine wine is good and relatively cheap. i think their white wines kind of suck, but you should try the alamos malbec. you should, in fact, try any argentine malbec. cuz they’re gooooooood. had a halfers of a bottle myself last night. it was terrazas though, not alamos, which i think is a little bit better. anyway, if you try it, let me know what you think. Maggie