the ole' double 7 B/D dinner with family

[winoweenie]

One of my daughters,her husband and my grand-daughter and her hubby took me to a marvelous tasting dinner featuring Rombauer Vineyards wines at one of my fav jerts, Convivo for my birthday. The food and wine pairings were outstanding and with the exception of one glitch was el perfecto. The appetizers were a huge marinated shrimp with home-made salsa, a perfect large scallop that was drenched in champagne/cream sauce, a grilled portabella mushroom cap, filled with crab chunks served with the 2001 Carneros Chardonnay. This 'haint no Buckos' Choice selection but was sure tasty with the vittles. Next came an Arizona Bob White Quail stuffed with Chorizo and polento with grilled strawberry vinagerette and Beeson farms lettuce. The 2000 Merlot was a perfect compliment. The next shot was Sauteed Forest mushrooms with apple smoked bacon and roasted garlic crostiniwith carmelized onion cream sauce. This was served with my favorite wine of the nite his blockbuster 2000 zinfandel. This hummer took all them divergent flavors,tied them up in a velvet pouch and slid them down like my grand-kids at water world.Main course consisted of grilled Niman ranch top sirloin with foie gras butter,Sonoma Muscovy Duck breast with dried cranberry jus served with mayacoba beans. The 1999 Cab did justice to everything. The glitch was the duck breast. Tougher than Pattons' hide. With all the other food wasn't much of loss howm-so-ever. For dessert Jeffrey served a wonderful Toffee Pecan Crunch Cake with the Rombauer Zinfandel Port. Nice drink but don't pour your tawnys down the drain. Great time was had by all and in retropect a decent lineup of wines. I've had lots of his zins before but my first trip into his complete offerings. Has a beautiful facility above St. Helena with over a mile of caves dug into the mountain for storage. If you stop by his tasting room in St. Helena you can arrange to visit. Worth the time and effort. WW

[hotwine]

Happy B/D, ya ol' miscreant! Sounds like a berry, berry nice dinner!

[zenda2]

Happy Boithday, WW!

[Bucko]

What wine matches pablum? [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/biggrin.gif[/img]

[winoweenie]

My EXPERT observation would be a namby-pamby un-oaked, non-malalactic, non-fermented, non-corked SW. ww(snort) [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/biggrin.gif[/img]

[Kcwhippet]

A very Happy Birthday and many, many more.

[Innkeeper]

Happy birthday to the man who makes me feel young.

[winedope1]

Happy b day WW!!!!! glad it was a good time. a shame about the duck, it can be So good! sounds like a really nice tasting menu overall. WD

[wondersofwine]

A belated happy birthday. The duck breast was my favorite dish at the Meo-Camuzet burgundy tasting in D.C. Glad you enjoyed the wines and the dessert. I think I would opt for a tawny port myself over the zinfandel variety.

[Drew]

Happy Birthday, you ol' coyote....Isn't this the third birthday you've celebrated this year? You'd do anything to go to free dinners and tastings. By the by, was in Ocean City this weekend and discovered your voice on my phone recorder...sorry I missed the call.

Drew

[ShortWiner]

Happy birthday, indeed, WW! May you never need a sabbatical again [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/biggrin.gif[/img]

-Matt

[This message has been edited by ShortWiner (edited 03-12-2003).]