It is not Wednesday, but I had some great wine tonight

Tonight, played tennis and then came home to work on some things.   Opened a bottle of 2008 Elk Cove Vineyards Willamette Valley Pinot Noir.    This is one of my "Go To" wines in the wine isle these days.    For about $30 you can get this wine in most wine stores.    I have found the close you are to Oregon, the bigger the distribution, but i find it pretty easily in Dallas.   15,000 case produced, so it is out there.  

You know I kind of like to keep some what I call "Wednesday night" wine around.   You have keep plenty of wine around that you don't ming opening in the middle of the week just to have a glass or two.  We all like to pull out the "Big Dogs" on the weekends, but you still need good wine for the weekdays.  But you can go broke drinking the expensive stuff all the time.   This is one of those great, drinkable, weekday wines.   Great with light chicken or pasta dinners.   It is a smooth wine and doesn't posses a great deal of the earthy flavor you find in many of the lower priced Pinot Noir wines out there.    13.5% alcohol, so it stands up to most dinners, but it is still light to me.   I taste cherry and smoke.   Great wine, check it out some Wednesday!

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I have been thinking about writing about my adventures in wine for a long time.    I have enjoyed wine for many years, having grown up around the business, and thought... Why not?   At least this medium is a place for me to take notes, remember my adventures and maybe share a little with others.   So here we go...