Gift Ideas

Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect. ~Oren Arnold

Goal reached before year end!

"1000" views since October 24th !!!!!

18 MORE!

ONLY 18 MORE VIEWS TO HIT "1000" WHICH WAS MY GOAL FROM OCTOBER 24 thru DECEMBER 31 !

Chardonnay

Known as the worlds favorite white wine. It is America's # 1 white wine varietal. Climbing the ladders of one of the best dry white wines around. The Chardonnay vine is a low maintenance vine which will undergo many climatic changes and still produce well. Chardonnay's have a buttery, oak undertone with fruity flavors to be desired. Aplle, pear, citrus, melon & tropicals all rolled into one. It leaves your palate refreshed and wanting more! Chardonnay serves well with chicken, pork, salads, seafoods and add a cream sauce to your main dish and your in heaven! Jacobs Creek wine is one of my favorites, add a bit of brie and sliced apples & this could be a fantastic meal in itself!
I prefer red....but this white will do wonderfully for me!

A Wide Variety to Choose From....

Different grape varieties are plentiful! I have always loved fruits, but since beginning this study in wine I find myself actually admiring each grape singularly. I had never noticed the depths of color or shadings of the colors in all my 58 years on this earth. I just would plop the luscious fruits in my mouth and enjoy. But now I find myself analyzing the structure of the grapes and thinking. (Of course when I point this out to some of my friends, I know they are thinking I have gone off the deep end!) My friends just look at me and smile. That is of course not the case of the friends who share this common interest of mine to learn about the fruit from the vine to the glass. I have decided to do a bit each day on each different type of grape in the wine making. I have learned there are some 24,000 varieties of wine grapes which Ampelographers believe these represent about 5,000 truly different varieties. Most varieties I have learned have numerous names depending upon the area they are grown. Of the 5,000 varieties only 150 are planted commercially and of the 150 varieties there are only 9 varieties considered classics.
WHITE GRAPES:

• CHARDONNAY
• CHENIN BLANC
• RIESLING
• SAUVIGNON BLANC
• SEMILLION

RED GRAPES:

• CABERNAT SAUVIGNON
• MERLOT
• PINOT NOIR
• SYRAH

Tomorrow or later today I will begin the study starting with the whites....In the mean time I will go have a nice bowl of red grapes with my granola this morning.
Chow!

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When I began this blog on October 25 I had a dream to reach 1000 views by January 1.2011. Well I am 93 views away from having that come true! And have 2 more weeks in which to do so. Maybe that will be reached at the end of this week! Then I will have the blog put together for a book. Then next year I will work on a 2 volume set for 2011.