Wine tastings
I love to end my evenings with a glass of wine, a beer or some kind of drink.
I put the kids to bed and relax with whatever I feel like at the moment or simply what I have at home. I chose this wine tonight that I picked up from the local liquor store called QG Loureiro from Portugal. I wanted to experience my part of Portugal since I wasn't able to attend #steemfest this year. This flavorful white wine paired with some Stephen King "1922" on Netflix made for a great evening in.
The description states that it has a fresh floral nose with honeyed citrus aromas and is well balanced. This was great wine! It is quite flavorful and just the right amount of sweet. Not too sweet, not too dry; quite well balanced as it states. When first opened it was pleasantly slightly sparkling but drank well as a sipping wine once the bubbles subsided. If you try this one I recommend sharing it with friends.
My wine glass collection consists of two glasses from each winery I visit. This particular glass is from one of my favorite wineries in the Texas Hill Country, Chisholm Trail Winery. I highly recommend visiting this winery if you ever find yourself in the Hill country!
How do you relax in the evening after the kids go down?
A glass of local wine is always the best way to go, here in Connecticut there are dozens of good and great wineries on the Connecticut Wine Trail, as its known. The growing season here is fairly short so the are a lot of blended wines, our favorite is one that's becoming more popular throughout the state. DiGrazia Vineyards in Brookfield make some excellent crowd pleasingly enjoyable blends, their Honey Blush is absolutely AMAZING...it's our "go to" bottle.
So cool! I love so many blended wines. I didn't know Connecticut had a wine trail!
This actually isn't a local wine. Picked it up from a local liquor store. ;-)
I lived in Central Texas for some time, about an hour away from a couple of good wine trails. I have some great memories from visiting them over the last ten years. I now live in Utah... where it is so difficult to get much. I miss my selection, my local flavors, and the ease of purchasing. I try a few new bottles each time I visit the liquor store but still haven't found my favorites out here. Figured I'd start "documenting" it so I can remember when I find one I'd buy again. :-)
But... Connecticut's wine trail is now on my bucket list!
They make it fun to visit the local wineries. 37 of the Ct. wineries participate and give away a "passport" and as you visit each one you get a stamp, at the end of the year you return yours to a wine shop and they give away prizes of wine and wine related travel. It's a great program.
Fun! Have you ever filled one?
Oh no, no chance. We did 13 this year and brought friends back to a few of our favorites. We bring some cheese, some chocolate, some nuts, or some little meal to nosh. Almost none of the wineries here sell food of snacks as that would constitute the need for a restaurant licence...but that's just life in Connecticut.
Ha ha. I imagine it would be hard to do. 😉
Most of ours in tx would do the minimum cheese and crackers and such. Maybe the laws are different.
Nice post! What will happening, if someone resteem your post?
It gets shared to all of your followers. 😊