champagneinhand
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Joined: 5/30/2011 From: Upstate New York, California born. Status: offline
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I was able to painfully make it back to NY around 2:00am last night after visiting an old middle school/high school friend near Asheville, NC. I was literally about 5 miles from my exit on the NY State thruway, when A very large buck jumped over the center dividing cement and literally crashed into my car. The long gone deer took the worst, but his head took my right mirror complex off and his feet or knees left a long scratch down the side of my car from the front wheel to the rear bumper. I was lucky as a large truck was being hooked up about a mile down where he too down a deer in the grill, which destroyed the front end of his car. Glad to be home and very happy to have numerous great memories from Charleston and its not just the awesome wines, great food and fun people, but I was able to see why Southern living is such a pleasant way to do things. I have to say that Scott's Shrimp and Grits, were so creamy and top notch. The other things food wise that stood out were the groceries take on Swordfish and the dessert at Circa 1886, which was bread pudding with apples, rolled like a sushi roll and sliced accordingly, then deep fried in butter, with the best sauces and cheddar cheese Ice cream. The wines were all in the excellent to classic category. My big surprises were how much I loved all the white wines from the Champers, White Burgundy(thanks Brad), SQN, Maison Bleue, White Bdx, the dessert wines all were top notch. I think every bottle of the white blew me away. The red's, as I expected were all wonderful, but I have known for a while that I have a mad love for great red wines. I do know realize that I must gather more white wines and replenish some of the desserts I have recently pulled for drinking.
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As I age my finger tips seem to be bigger, my iOS keyboard seems to be less kind, and my need for wearing reading glasses has never been greater. I hope you are forgiving and can read between my lines.
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