• Eating a strangely satisfying concoction of kidney beans, celery, carrot, sweet onion, tuna, feta, and vinaigrette. Crunchy and substantial. #

• I never would've thought that I'd like mint flavored water so much…who knew? #
• More than a dozen posts still in the 'draft' stage. That's a new (and sad) take on 'so many recipes, so little time'… #
• @kidcapitale how about 'resourceful' or 'eco-conscious'? It's all in how you spin it… in reply to kidcapitale #
• Prudence Uncorked for dinner tonight. Looking forward to seeing the changes they've made since it was J. James. #

Low-quality blurrycam photo...sorry 'bout that.

Okay, so now that Lyndie knows about this we can finally publish this (very silly) post

A month or two ago a cohort/murder/bevy/horde of our family descended in a raving rabid mass on the sleepy and unsuspecting village of Seaside, Oregon. Cavorting and pillaging as we went we left no citizen unsullied by our passing.

Woe be unto all who stray into our paths…

The victims of our weekend of debauchery were many.  Among them was the proprietor of a classy little wine shop who found himself relieved of the majority of his wares in short order by our wild and wily womenfolk.

Among the many treasures begotten there was a lovely gem we’d not laid eyes upon before. Avast! (I don’t know, it just started sounding all piratey)

We’ve always loved the wines from Bogle so this was an easy sell. The blend of grapes – Petite Sirah, Zinfandel, and Mourvèdre – is similar to the Marietta Cellars Angeli Cuvée (the Angeli contains Carignane instead of Mourvèdre) which we’ve always loved and rarely can afford.

As is our habit, here’s the description in (most of) it’s glory from the Bogle website. Brace yourselves:

“Three distinctive varietals combine lush berry and fierce spice into a wine characterized by its incandescence. Deeply luscious and succulent blackberries ignite this vintage of our rich ruby apparition. Aromas of anise and sweet fig are embraced by touches of black pepper. From the shadowed dark depths, subtle notes of cloves and vanilla emerge and compliment the concentrated fruit characters of this wine. ” and on and on and so forth…

And that pretty much sums it all up…

This was a very good $20 bottle of wine with an extremely cool label. Twenty bucks is normally way out of our price range but we so loved the other Bogle wines that we thought it was worth it. If you’re the type that thinks nothing of dropping that kind of money on a bottle of wine or lighting cigars with burning $100 bills or whatever then you might find this to be a pretty satisfying daily drinker.

The rest of us lowly hourly swine will save it for special occasions.