Wine Aficionado

This morning everything seems better, here is last nights lame post:

With all the studies that show that drinking a glass or two of red wine a day may be good for your health I have decided to try my own study. Regular readers here know that my cholestrol is somewhat on the high side and I’m working with my doctor to try and get it in the “normal” range. I don’t eat too badly (realative to the general population) and I exercise fairly frequently, so I’m guessing a lot of my problem is hereditary, maybe drinking wine is the ticket.

Donna’s brothers and sister are big wine drinkers, so that after the house cleared out Thanksgiving weekend we were left with a couple of bottles. Instead of the usual pour it down the sink and recycle the bottle as in years past, I resolved to drink them empty, one glass at a time, strictly for my heart you understand.

After finishing off the leftovers, it was time to buy some wine on my own. Knowing nothing about wines my first replacement was just another bottle of the same kind that was left behind, Yellow Tail Merlot. Apparently it is from Australia because it has a cute Aborigini looking kangaroo on the bottle. As a bonus, it was cheap. Seeing as that wasn’t too bad tasting, my next bottle was chosen for its inexpensiveness as well. I don’t remember what brand it was, but I’m sure it came in a snazzy bottle. It cost less than the Yellow Tail and it didn’t have that cork thing, you just screwed the top off and poured. It really didn’t taste too bad either.

With the cost factor now really unimportant, anything under $10 a bottle being fine, I have now started working my way through the local supermarket’s wine aisle picking out my beverage by how I like the bottle/label design. Our latest stock consists of a Syrah from Red Bicyclette.

The next bottle might be from the folks at Twin Fins winery. Their bottles have a stylized back end of a 50s convertible with a surfboard sticking out of it.