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A convoluted tale
This is a convoluted tale about wine. I don't normally write about wine as so many of my readers live outside of France and can't buy most of the wines we drink. This wine, however, is available in the states as well as the Uk. First though an update on Linda's health. In a word - scary. The surgeon called on Friday to say that they wanted her to have another scan. His English isn't that good, but we deduced that its most likely an MRI. He was supposed to call the next day to tell us when & where the scan would take place. No Call ,so we're in limbo on that which is worrying . Then Linda had a severe angina attack, her first in a long time. Her medication worked quickly, but these attacks leave her very weak. Thus yesterday we went to see her cardiologist. He couldn't find anything wrong, but he's put her on a 24 hour heart monitor & has given her some medications. She had another attack this morning, but it was much less severe. I think its all the stress, but we'll see
The wine. Nearly ten years ago we started going to a Gaillac winery called
Domaine de la Chanade. They made some very nice red wines. For
whatever reasons that I can't remember we stopped going there. I think it
was because we started buying our wines closer to home. The quality wasn't
quite so good, but the price was right. For our last wine tasting group meeting I had assigned everyone the task of buying a white wine from Gaillac. This is difficult as they mostly make reds or they make sweet dessert type whites or they make a champagne like sparkling white. (these aren't bad actually & are a whole lot cheaper than the stuff from up North.) In any case due to illness we missed the meeting, but the feedback was that nobody found anything much good. Then, last week we went to some newly met friends house for drinks. They live her part time & their house isn't that far, a few miles, from us. Nice people from England. They served us a delicious white wine. I couldn't see the bottle, but this stuff was really good. We moved into the kitchen to have some homemade pizza & in so doing I noticed a bottle of my favored red, Galien from Domaine de la Chanade on the counter. I commented that this was a wine & winery I really likes. Our host turned the bottle of white he was serving so I could see the label. It was Galien from Domaine de la Chanade, BUT was a white. I was very impressed. as well as surprised because the Domaine didn't make any whites when I was going there. After
Michael & I played golf last Friday we stopped at the Domaine on our way
home. To my surprise the owner remembered me. We went into his new (to me)
tasting room to try a few things. Although I like pretty much all of their
wines the two Galiens, Red & White are definitely my favorites. We
had a nice chat with the owner about the wines, California, the recent
elections in France & so forth. I'm taking a bottle of the white to lunch today because at least 4 other members of our wine group will be there. I guess I just want to show off a bit. Now then, according to the owner he's exporting over 50,000 case of wine every year to the states. Mainly the East coast, primarily New York & some to Chicago. Thus you just might be able to find & buy the wines from Domaine de la Chanade Wouldn't that be a hoot? If you do please please let me know. I'd love to tell the owner that somebody bought his wine because of me. |
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