On Wednesday, the advertising department at work had a lot of extra tickets to an event at the Minnesota Zoo. It was a great event with wine and food sampling. I’m sure my parents would have loved it, but I took A. I knew she would love it because she use to be the manager at the Saint Paul Hotel’s food hospitality service, or whatever the fancy name they have for the kitchen.
The event was tonight, Saturday.
I tried 14 wines. I’ll list a few I liked:
- True Grit Petit Sirah – this was very good. One of the only Petits I saw there
- Gruet Demi Sec – this was a bubbly, white dessert-escque wine, but not super sweet like a moscato d’asti
- Chateau Beneyt Bordeaux Rouge – full flavor, but neither bold, sweet, or dry
- Blanc de Bleu – get this, it was a blueberry sparkling. I heard someone comparing it to UV Blue. It was unique, but it didn’t give me flashbacks to college parties (as UV Blue would surely do)
- Spring Valley Frederick Red – this was a red blend that had a likeness to Louie’s Wine Dive House Red (Cab, Malbec, Petit Sirah, other miscellaneous reds). I thought it was really good. Coincidentally, it is also the most expensive bottle they had available
- Ferrari Carano Siena – I can’t remember much about this wine. I marked it as good and to buy it in the future.
After that, we went to Red Robin, a restaurant in Apple Valley that I love. We split a Chicken Teriyaki Burger, which had mozz and pineapple. It’s been my favorite burger since high school dates. You know, when the good theater was still open in Apple Valley.
She went to her friends house for a movie night or something. I went home.
The drive on 35E at midnight was strange because it was so normal and uneventful. I’m not sure why. I think it’s just that everything is good.