2000 Buckeley Cab/Shiraz blend

[hotwine]

It's our annual church barbecue and wild game dinner.... coincides with the commemoration of the Siege of the Alamo(March 1836) and precedes Fiesta San Jacinto, celebrating the Battle of San Jacinto when Texas gained its independence from Mexico, which occured in April, same year. The barbecue allows us to clean out our freezers of leftover critter carcasses from the winter, jump-start Fiesta celebrations, and raise funds (from ticket sales and auction proceeds) for youth programs. Totaled about $16K last year, should come in closer to $20K this time. Youth programs include mission trips to Mexico, feeding the homeless downtown, that kind of thing. (And that's where the leftover food went.) I'm just miffed that I got so involved in cooking preparations that I forgot the donation of wines for the auction.