2024 Life Logs, Day 43: Wine Group
Date: Monday, February 12, 2024
Weather: Mostly Sunny; High Temp 48, Low 26 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue, Falmouth MA
It was a sunny day and not too cold. The lull before the storm. I took advantage of that to go water plants for friends who are away for a bit. I was supposed to water tomorrow, but with the reports of Winter Storm Lorraine barreling up the coast, I opted to go today. My friend Midge went with me in case I could not do the stairs as some plants are on the second floor. But my right knee hung in there and I made it. But by the time I got home, I grabbed a quick lunch and took a nap to rest my back. Due to the Superbowl late night last night and waking up at 6 am and not able to go back to sleep, I needed that nap. By the time I got up, it was time to get ready to go.
Tonight’s wine group theme was to bring a bottle with a fun label.
We started with a prosecco from Spain call True Colours that comes in a showstopping bottle. It is a social product that provides the opportunity to contribute to projects that the producers are passionate about. Highland Imports is very excited to be celebrating the one-year anniversary of the U.S. launch of True Colours. For every bottle sold in the U.S., a donation is made to organizations that help support accelerating the acceptance for the LGBTQ Community.
Each person or couple in our group normally brings an appetizer to go with their wine. But for tonight, with a reduced group due to some of our snowbird members, the hosts provided Dom’s steak tips and salad for dinner.
Other members brought the appetizer, rice as a side dish, and I brought dessert. We went from the bubbly to two red wines to go with our steak dinner. We had The Walking Fool, a really good red wine, and then on to Frankenrocker Cotes du Rhone, both with great labels. For the dessert we went back to the sauvignon blanc I brought. I chose it because it was organic wine with a big blue bee on the label.that caught my attention.
Melea is also from Spain and also has a social dimension. Anthophora melea are bees that this winery tries to support for the health of the planet. And Melea was the first Spanish wine brand to become a member of a group called ‘1% For The Planet’. 1% of Melea gross sales go to charities that support biodiversity and promote the use of organic farming, avoiding the use of agrochemicals that harm bees and other pollinators.
There were only six of us there tonight.
We missed our friends in Florida and in the Turks and Caicos, but we tried our best to have a good time without them. It was a really fun evening with great food. At the end of the evening, I was checking the bottles to see if there was any wine left and I got caught on camera. Honestly, I was not desperate for wine, just checking the bottles.
Yeah. Right. No one is going to believe that!
