This blog 4 days late. Mediocre things come to those who wait, so here we go...For this week's Red Wine Wednesday it was my turn to chose the wine. Seeing as my friend unselfishly selected my favorite type of wine last week (Merlot), I decided to reciprocate and chose her favorite type this week. As you already know from the title of this entry, her favorite type is Cabernet Sauvignon. If my memory serves me correctly, the first (non Boones Farm) wine I tried was a Cabernet Sauvignon. I was living in an apartment with two girl friends at the time and we made some kind of fancy dinner and bought a couple of bottles wine to drink along with it. I figured out quickly and definitively that I wasn't a "white" girl. As for the red, I enjoyed it not so much for the taste but for what it stood for and how it made me feel. I was a naive, inexperienced kid fumbling my way through my early 20s a semester way from graduating, but put a glass of red wine in my hand and...BAM! I'm a well educated, sophisticated, cultured lady. A philosopher. A theologian. A grown up. I must confess, that even as a 30 something, drinking wine still makes me feel classy.
Choosing wine can be a very complex process because there are many factors to consider when doing so. If you prefer to disregard the particulars, however, choosing a wine becomes very simple. Which label catches my eye and draws me in? When you have a moderate regard for the particulars (like me) but take your kids with you to the store (also like me) then choosing a wine becomes next to impossible. You will stand there in the aisle scanning the rows of bottles going back and forth between several wines all the while listening to the background noise of your children alternating between bickering with each other and asking you for toys. You do your best to ignore them, but then you feel bad because you're paying more attention to booze than your babies. Then you remember that if you didn't have them, you probably wouldn't require the wine you're trying to select and so you don't feel so bad anymore. Scanning, reading, scanning, reading....and.....Cellar No. 8 it is! Cellar No. 8 caught my eye because 8 happens to be my favorite number. It has been since I was a kid and no other number can hold a candle to it it my mind. It's even, and round, and symmetrical. Plus if you turn eight sideways, it becomes infinity and infinity is awesome.
Red Wine Wednesday #2: Cellar No. 8 Cabernet Sauvignon
For the activity this week, we chose an indoor play date at our house, complete with a jumbo poster board painting session. The ambition to take the kids somewhere new each week quickly melts away when the temperature reaches 100+. For the second week in a row, the kids played together fantastically. They cleaned their plates at lunch, played freeze dance, "kill the bad guy season 2," and various other imaginative games.
As for the wine...
Cellar No. 8 Cabernet Sauvignon can be purchased at Target for 8.99 a bottle. The challenge for me in tasting this wine was trying to ignore that fact that Cab Sauvs aren't my favorite. I don't despise them by any means, but I just don't like 'em the most. It's like eating regular Cheerios when you prefer Honey Nut. You'll still eat and enjoy the classic Cherrios, but you won't have that little extra honey nuttiness to round out the corners of the experience. I popped the cork (albeit much slower than my friend because I don't have the magic rabbit wine tool) and poured. Clinky, clinky, "Cheers!" First sip and...alright. Smooth and spicy with decent balance. Good wine at a great price.
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