Wine Wednesday?

Ummmmm...... hi there.

So if you haven't figured it out by now, I am all about honesty on this thing. Throwing it all out there for your judgment/entertainment means I don't have to use my filter, which I can barely utilize at work.

Which means I pretty much never use it at work - thank goodness for my coworkers. bless their little hearts.

And I digress.....

Sooooooo I am not fully prepared for Wine Wednesday this week... but I have been busy! This weekend was filled with gazing at my beautiful bottles of fancy wine that finally arrived from my Napa travels in September, but I procrastinate during weekends anyway.

So what was the problem?

Monday night I made my all-time favorite snack from my Baylor days... apple bread! And last night night I took that delicious apple bread to some friends who invited us over for dinner. This means I played on a school (work) night TWO nights in a row.

This brings me to two conclusions:

1. I love apple bread.

2. I am pathetic that I can only fit in one extra activity each night.

I am old and crusty.

and not like a good French baguette... more like an open tube of toothpaste.

But I do have all my good wine now - YAY! And I can write about that, right?

This weekend I got my glorious shipment of Fisher wines. People... this stuff is serious. It is from a stunning, tiny mountain vineyard overlooking Napa Valley that makes some killer Cabernet. It is the Spring Mountain district, which has become my favorite California Cab region.

You know what I love about Spring Mountain? All the vineyards are small and make wine with love. Because they have to! In the 1970's, when California wine started taking off, winemakers began buying the Spring Mountain land and planting it with Cabernet grapes... it is the perfect climate. But there was a problem - all the loose soil from the land-clearing was running into Napa Valley! yikes! So California laws were passed that restrict any more land on Spring Mountain to be cleared for planting. period. done. So what you see is what you get! and what you will ever get!

Mr. and Mrs. Fisher have been there since the beginning, and their wine shows it. One bottle in particular that I bought just melts my heart...

See this bottle?

Ain't it pretty?

So this is called the wedding vineyard cabernet, and for good reason. In the 1970's, soon after the Fishers bought their land, they spent all their money getting it cleared for the vineyard. Since they had nothing left to pay for planters, they decided to get married on their land. So they did! And the reception? Everybody rolled up their sleeves and planted the grapevines on the property. Seriously! It is literally the wedding vineyard.

and those very same grapes produce the cabernet in this bottle... love it.

Any Fisher wines can be tough to find and kinda expensive to buy. Look in fine dining restaurants or online. But if you find a bottle of the Unity Cab, Coach Insignia, anything... just buy it. It literally will change your life... and I am not just saying that for dramatic effect.

Because I am really not that dramatic... nobody in my family is.

Love ya'll! Mean it.

and love Fisher! Really mean it.