Up at 9:45, ate fritatta for bkfst, and that was the last low carb I
did yesterday!
Got to the place, no signage for teh class, so I just kind of
sat/stood around. It's a neat place, but overpriced as far as
coffee/coffee drinks.
Winery tour/tasting class yesterday was pretty cool. Texas Hills is a
nice vineyard; they have a cute grey cat, too. Of the 3 we visited,
TX hills seemed to be the only one that uses its own grapes & also
the biggest, cleanest, etc.
Texas Hills tasting notes (we tasted 5 or 6 wines, but I only wrote
down the ones I liked best)
1999 Sangiovese. Caramel, fruit, dry. very good.
Cabernet - good color, great fragrance. Tannins. Dry, rich, sharp?
excellent finish. dry.
Blush-good color, pretty pink/peach. uncomplicated flavor, sweet but
not too sweet, clean finish, nice acidity.
Also wrote "Never go tasting with a herd of sorority girls" at the
bottom of this note.
Met a couple of nice folks; a couple from CA who had done their time
as corporate drones, retired from that, and are now doing what they
want to do. The husband is a massage therapist; the wife grooms dogs.
For a hobby, the husband makes beer. So we talked beer & I
recommended St. Pat's where I took the meadmaking course.
There was a herd of sorority girls on the bus, they drank several
bottles of wine in between stops, so they were all giggly and wasted
and loud. Very seriously obnoxious. But other than them, the day was
perfect.
We had lunch at the Round Up cafe; excellent food: big ol' chops &
salisbury steaks, real mashed potatoes, great biscuits, grilled
yellow squash, onions & carrots--yum yum!
The CA folks were talking about finding more Texas wines to try and
I told them that if they didn't want to trek all over Texas, Wiggy's
has a good selection and Howard is very knowledgable about wines. The
lady leading the tour piped up and said she knows Howard; she says he
is single & looking. HMM!
After Lunch, went to McWilliams (Mc Reynolds?) winery:
2000 Chenin Blanc: GREAT fruit/floral scent, dry,[unreadable
something] something 'grey' in aftertaste.
Rose of Chenin: orange peach color, floral scent. less dry finish
Cabernet 2000: Great dark plum color, good scent. Fruity, dry finish,
pepper smells, coffee, something desserty in taste.
I misunderstood and thought Mr. Mc. said they were out of teh Cab, I
would have totally bought it. Their operation was very small,
cluttered, dirty, but very homey, and their wine was not bad. Such
great smells on all of them, and then the flavors didn't quite match
the promise of the scent.
He also let us taste a Shiraz that they made once from UT
experimental vienyards and then UT decided it was unethical for the
University to make wine and destroyed the grapes, before the regents
got wize and leased the rest of the vineyards out instead of
destroying such an investment. SIGH. The Shiraz was excellent, very
dark & peppery, strong...just wonderful.
Our final stop was Cana cellars. jesus chrispy owners. ew. We tasted
4 wines there:
Fumee blanc. Light, good yellow color, smells fruity. sour flavor,
not v. good, too much oak aging? no finish/gone after a sip
Chardonnay- oak aged, also. Green, sharp, green taste, dry. acid.
slight fruit supposedly butter?? More aftertaste than fumee blanc
97 Merlot - orange-red, sharp fruit, sweet-dry, pepper?
98 Merlot - ruby red, mot filtered, no real bouquet, good dark,
pepper, nice & dry (might have actually purchased this one)
Anyway, it was a nice day. I was so sleepy when I got home, but
stayed up and watched King of the hill, malcolm in the middle &
Xfiles. Next weeks Xfiles looks like it's going to be a goofy throw-
away episode. I like those just fine, though.
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