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.
1 comment
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