Disposing of the 2000 Chateau Kefraya
Well, my vacation in California came to a crashing halt the other day when we spent our last several hours in CA visiting a hospital. My wife had some sort of food poisoning and it wasn’t much fun for her at all. I have had food poisoning three times and I can recall all three with vivid detail. I won’t do that here, of course, but if you’ve ever had food poisoning you know what kind of fun it would be to fly for 2.5 hours right in the middle of it all. My wife is a trooper.
Anyway, we got back this weekend and I wanted to try that bottle of 2000 Chateau Kefraya that my coworker had given to me. It’s a Lebanese wine and apparently somewhere between Lebanon and Seattle, some cork taint managed to get in and do its business. So, I couldn’t drink this bottle. It’s a shame because it smelled pretty good at first, but the flavor was really off and kind of disgusting in a non-wine sort of way. I definitely need another shot at this wine. Someday…
On a separate note, I am busily writing and revising my entry for a seminar that is coming up in a few weeks. I will be traveling to Finland for this particular seminar and the paper is due this week, which means my writing effort has been focused on this paper rather than this blog lately.
However, I do have some stuff to report: I need more money. I got the 2005 Hirsch Vineyards offer letter this weekend, and clearly I can’t afford to buy any right now. Between the Domaine Drouhin Louise and the Privé Vineyard releases that I pre-ordered, and with other more fundamental bills to pay, I need to stick to what I’ve already purchased for a while. On the plus side, I should have more wine reviews in the near future and I also want to follow through with that wine comparison I promised to do. Stay tuned…