Yeah, that cracked me up when I had it too. You get the pun, right?
a black Muscat that went deliciously with the chocolate truffles our guests brought
I have never tried Muscat. What's it like? I generally run afoul of dessert wines. I don't know my way around them very well and usually choose somthing that tastes like cough syrup. On the other hand, I found the cheap port with the screw cap that I bought for cooking to be at least as palatable.
Hubby finally loaded his "wine grotto" this weekend. This is a wine fridge, essentially. I am totally embarrassed that we even have such a thing. It's not like we're wine snobs. He's had it for a month or so, but it took us this long to get a thermometer for it to make sure it was working properly.
Most dessert wines are fairly sweet. This Muscat was sweet, but with blackberry and rosy overtones. It went really well with the milk chocolate truffles, and would have been even better with dark. Your best bet is to ask somebody where you buy about how sweet it is - since dessert wines, while always sweeter than regular ones, also vary from sweet to dry.
(I'd wanted to find a Tokay, which is a sweet Hungarian dessert wine that is thick and sweet with a raisiny date kinda flavor. Probably excellent on ice cream, good in small amounts, but too sweet for more than a wee bit.
Wow. So what does the wine grotto look like? Why'd you buy it?
Hmm, your post makes me glad that meranthi and I avoided all bridal fair type things when making our plans. She looked at a huge number of magazines, books, & websites, which sounds much more comfy. ;-) As far as planning, we were able to get the location that she really wanted, so everything else pretty much followed from that.
Interesting. But I'm not sure how to maintain that fiction. I have no idea what sorts of questions one would ask a wedding planner, and I'm fairly bad with completely ad-libbing.
Wow. I never went to a bridal fair, and I kind of wondered what I missed. Now I know :-p. In general, I was never very attracted to the wedding fair side of stuff b/c from all promotions, it DID seem to be about the bride and only the bride. Hubby and I really did all our wedding planning together, and I was (and still am) creeped out by the bride culture.
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Yeah, that cracked me up when I had it too. You get the pun, right?
a black Muscat that went deliciously with the chocolate truffles our guests brought
I have never tried Muscat. What's it like? I generally run afoul of dessert wines. I don't know my way around them very well and usually choose somthing that tastes like cough syrup. On the other hand, I found the cheap port with the screw cap that I bought for cooking to be at least as palatable.
Hubby finally loaded his "wine grotto" this weekend. This is a wine fridge, essentially. I am totally embarrassed that we even have such a thing. It's not like we're wine snobs. He's had it for a month or so, but it took us this long to get a thermometer for it to make sure it was working properly.
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Most dessert wines are fairly sweet. This Muscat was sweet, but with blackberry and rosy overtones. It went really well with the milk chocolate truffles, and would have been even better with dark. Your best bet is to ask somebody where you buy about how sweet it is - since dessert wines, while always sweeter than regular ones, also vary from sweet to dry.
(I'd wanted to find a Tokay, which is a sweet Hungarian dessert wine that is thick and sweet with a raisiny date kinda flavor. Probably excellent on ice cream, good in small amounts, but too sweet for more than a wee bit.
Wow. So what does the wine grotto look like? Why'd you buy it?
What sorts of wines do you like?
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So what was this dream location?
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