Thanksgiving

[Innkeeper]

Sounds great and many thanks to you too Mike. We did it here with single daughter and one married one with hubby and two kids. Had mixed nuts, spit roasted turkey with cranberry sauce and gravy, wild rice and mushroom stuffing, green beans almandine, mashed Maine potatoes, salad with raspberry-hazelnut vinaigrette, potato braid, and apple pie. Matched this array of flavors with a 1997 Steele, Mendocino, Zinfandel, DuPratt Vineyard, and, for the "others" a 1998 Buehler, California, White Zinfandel.

The Steele Zin was incredible. DuPratt must be the sunniest patch of Mendocino County and/or Mr Steele has the uncanny abliity to pick the grapes at the perfect moment of ripeness without getting to the overripe stage that can push zin over the top. The result is a wine with warm climate, old world characteristics reminiscent of a syrah from the Rhone. Georgeous purple color, plummy and spicy on the nose. A rush of ripe raspberry fruit upfront, earthy complexity and balanced tannin in der middle, and a ringing finish that naturally differed with the various foods. The Buehler White Zin, was fruity and crisp, and very if not completely dry. The folks at Buehler put together just about the best of this genre year in and year out.

Hope all of the rest of you had a great day too.



[This message has been edited by Innkeeper (edited 11-24-2000).]