Valentine's Day plans?

[Georgie]

So what are all of you lovers doing for your beloveds? I received a dozen red roses, a couple of lovely cards and a new coffee pot! (My coffee pot died last week.) What are all you romantics doing?

[wondersofwine]

Congrats, Georgie. I'm avoiding restaurants today.

[hotwine]

Have a salmon filet marinading in the fridge for grilling over oak. She hasn't disclosed the veggies yet. Wine will be a 2003 Savigny-Les Beaune from Costco (their house brand, Kirkland) with a left coast PN as back-up. May begin the cooking with Champagne.

Gave her jewelry from mom's estate a couple of weeks ago. She says I'm covered.

[shewelch]

The ususal- chocolates, flowers, romantic dinner (see food pairings to help me with wine selection).

We use holidays as an excuse to spend money on the big things too... Hubby painted the entire inside of the house for me last week and he got to move his homebrew 5-tap beer bar into the house (he covered it beautifully with oak and we got tap handles from Anchor brewing company that we visited in San Fran last April- actually he got the freezer itself for Valentine's last year)

What do you think of his handy work?
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[Innkeeper]

With a center piece of red and white carnations, will be serving my true love grillpanned rib steaks, whole green beans almondine, club rolls, and Cabernet.

[Kcwhippet]

Sent a few dozen of the short stem roses to Judy's office. Tonight I'm making her favorite dish - my famous Chicken in Dried Tomato Cream Sauce over Linguine. Sauce is thick and rich with green onions, basil, dried tomatoes, white pepper, chicken broth (homemade of course), dry vermouth and whipping cream. The wine is a 2001 Icardi Barbera d'Alba.

[TheEngineer]

Johnny Walker has a scotch tasting tonight that I'm going to... [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/smile.gif[/img]

[Kcwhippet]

Yeah, we got invites at the shop, but after all the single malts we have there, blended's just not the same anymore.

[winoweenie]

I've been laid up since last Friday with flue-like symptoms. there-fore haven't wasted any wines that would be tsteless. Got CB some lomg-syems, cards, and a bracelet. Hopefully this too shall pass. WW

[dananne]

Sorry to hear you're under the weather, WW. Get well soon.

As for VD, we did the dinner on Saturday night -- went to Woodfire Grill here in Atlanta, which is our favorite restaurant. Had a nice pinot from Fiddlehead Cellars (the 2002 Fiddlestix), and Anne had a Warre's Tawny for dessert with assorted cheeses, while I had a dessert pinot gris from King Estate with an apple tart. Didn't do any big gift exchange, though we did get each other a special bottle of wine -- she bought me a nice Burg, and I got Anne a bottle of Ken Wright. Of course, flowers, too. We're saving $ for another wine trip back to Oregon and Washington early this summer (we'll get to see CCK again, which will be nice!).

[robr]

WW - I had a hell of a bad flu two weeks ago. You're right. Don't waste any of the good stuff whilst you're under the weather.

Hope you feel better soon!

[Glass_A_Day]

WW, perfect tiem to drink that bottle that just doesn't impress you no matter how many times you try it. One of those "what was I thinking" buys. Will taste the same.