So what better way to recover from a ten vial blood draining experience than a great dinner and great wine at the Marx Brothers with Eilene Hendershot - a former Slat Rat boss from way back and a very good friend.
We had a super time - we talked and talked and talked. Eilene now lives Outside, but still comes back once a year for the July 4th holiday. It's a tradition of ours to meet at the Marx Brothers for some serious catching up and some serious wine.
So, tonight's wine was a real treat. The Marx Brother's wine steward, whom I adore (he's my favorite sommelier in Anchorage), recommended an Austrian (that's right, Austrian, not Australian) white wine: Schloss Gobelsburg 2001 Gruner Veltliner Steinsetz.
Wow. What a great wine. A very crisp, not heavy, not fruity, wine. And certainly not a Reisling, which one might expect since we're talking Austria. The wine had three major components: an initial really good steely metallic taste on the front of the tongue. Then a very mild sulfer (think pouilly fuisse) taste on the back of the tongue. And finally a very nice fruit finish. A super wine.
Eilene and I slurped it right down!
I don't want to wait for a whole 'nuther year for our next dinner...
10:04:50 PM 
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