Welcome to the return of "Thirsty Thursday's" wine notes as we are back pouring our hearts out along with some great wine on Thursdays from 5:00 - 8:00 pm.  I am sacrificing my precious evening hours at State Street Exchange to help you, the finicky wine connoisseur, get a jump on some great wine for yet another busy but pleasurable weekend.  The things I do for wine!  The things wine does for me!  It's a beautiful partnership.  Now let's talk some wine....

The red wine selection of the day was from one of my favorite wine makers Greg Graziano who hales from Mendocino County in northern California.  The Graziano family of wines has been around since 1918 and in my humble opinion, taste better every year.  We opened the 2001 Petite Sirah and never looked back.  This delicious little beauty is actually 95% Petite Sirah and 5% Zinfandel, and originates from old vines scattered throughout the bench lands (places to sit after drinking to much for those of you in Knightstown) and hillsides of Mendocino County. 

On the palate, this wine is smooth, soft and ripe full of ripe berries, plums, cherries and a dash of spice.  It would pair amazingly with roasted lamb or beef and even hearty pasta dishes, preferably with red sauce, should the urge to cook actually overwhelm you and make you forget, even for a second, the wonders of carry-out.
But I digress because I don't cook!!  Yes, it's true....a wine drinker who actually doesn't pair wine and food and actually drank this "Petite Gem' with a chicken quesadilla compliments of Qdoba and found it equally delightful long after the tasting was over the panty hose had hit the floor.  Now that I've delivered that promising imagery to your frontal lobe I will bid you good-bye and tell you to "Never Expect more than this and a mental ramble.  I'm in the market for some present tense",*  Or in my case, some "wine" tense.  See you Thusrday.

The Wine Tellar
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*Quote compliments of Annie Dillard