Jack667
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Joined: 3/1/2010 From: Milton, GA Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Jack667 Hey! Glad to be taking a nice break today and enjoying reveal day, even if it's a bit late for me. I was in NC all week, and had planned to fly back to ATL at 8am yesterday. My flight was canceled Thursday evening and I was re-booked on a 1230pm flight, just a few hours later than planned, still for Friday / yesterday. I got to the airport at about 10am and I was there for about 11 hours, getting delayed, on/off the plane 3 times, until they finally had to give up and I had to scramble for another re-book and a hotel for the night. I got home around 11am today and totally forgot about reveal day, after that epic ordeal. Fast fwd to dinner time. TW is out getting her hair done (no rain, nor sleet, nor snow will interfere with that), so I cooked a dad's dinner for my 3 young boys. Basically 4 strip steaks on the grill. No starch, no veg. Who need that, plus not much laying around the house. Thinking about a wine to pair, I was in the cellar and grabbed a 2013 CT / Smig special, and was about to walk out when I remembered about reveal day! I made a pact with myself that I'd drink the gift wine immediately, as long as it wasn't a case of infanticide. I never do this, but I really wanted to take that approach this year. Thankfully, I received a great wine, not just on it's own, but ready enough to drink and a good match for the steak. I was generously gifted a bottle of Reynvaan - The Unnamed! I popped-n-poured it right away and it's really great!! Thanks for my Secret Santa for that great thought. I've been working on getting outside of Napa for bigger domestic wines and this is perfect. My wife is still out, but she'll get a chuckle out of the name of this wine - the Unnamed. My middle son had a crush on a girl at school last year - while he was in 6th grade. He wouldn't tell us who she was, and only would refer to her in our presence as 'The unnamed'. I wish he was old enough to try some (maybe he will - he's napping now after a 3-hour snow football game in a neighbors yard), but I'll certainly have my wife enjoy some. She doesn't drink much red wine at all, but she enjoys some good stuff once in a while and I know she'll love this. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And - to add to the extreme length of this post, I'm also going to hazard my first guess... Strangely (?), the box came with some paper clips packed inside. hmmm... That's certainly odd... Anyway - the shipping info says it comes from Minneapolis and now that I know the wine and do some additional checking... There's so much Reynvaan in this Minneapolis resident's cellar that I have to guess if my Secret Santa is Wine Gopher Nailed it . I saw that you liked Syrah and had dabbled with WW but I thought you maybe you needed more of a gateway to the Rocks. Thanks again - you nailed it - great choice. Thanks again for the generous gift!
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CT review 1 of my fav wines: "like a balance that's achieved with every voice shouting at equal volume" That's not just my taste profile, it’s a life choice! My Wine
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