Please remind me next year . . .

[dananne]

to open up a cheap bottle of jug wine to pour down the sink to appease the wine gods. For the FIFTH straight Thanksgiving, the first bottle I opened was BAD!!!

The list of casualties over the years:

1994 Marques de Murrieta Ygay Gran Reserva Rioja

1999 Sanford Santa Barbara Pinot Noir

1999 Clos la Chance Zinfandel

1989 Chateau Musar (Lebanon)

This year, thankfully, I first opened only a Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau. I was still a bit cranky about it, however, as it ruined my plans for a taste-off of 3 different Nouveaus. Instead, I just opened an Argyle Pinot Noir and was done with it.

It is so very odd, too, that Thanksgiving proves such a horror. In looking over my notes, Thanksgiving bad bottles account for about half of all the bad bottles I've opened! I hardly ever open a bad bottle now that I've got a refrigerated cellar.

Just wierd.