Red Wine?.....Yes Please!

I was always a Sav Blanc kind of girl until I discovered the wonders of Shiraz.....and it is kind of amazing! I always strayed from the red wine side of things because I did not like how it made my whole entire mouth look like I had eaten a box of blueberries only after a glass...not so appealing when you are entertaining. But a couple of weeks ago Paul made Chili and paired it with a glass of Shiraz and I was thoroughly impressed! Apparently variety is the spice of life and I have my wonderful husband to thank for it! Not only does red wine go well with a warm bowl of chili but it also goes well with a movie, after a long day at work, and after you paint your bedroom a hideous color of Caribbean Blue (yes it was pretty tragic).Right now my man and I are sampling a glass of Flying Fox Shiraz from the beautiful Adelaide Hills of Australia....definitely worth sampling yourself. And Peanut I know you are reading this and thinking about where you can find Flying Fox Shiraz and I have no idea but I am sure your local wine store can get a bottle.

Speaking of all things red wine brings up memories of a recent trip to Greece....Peanut, remember when we ended up stranded in the Rome airport for 14 hours with a bottle of red wine and a calling card....Well it was partly our fault we did get lost in the Rome airport trying to find our connecting flight to Greece only to end up outside in the parking lot. But I might add that our flight was late due to the world's largest flock of birds flying into our planes engine while on the tarmac of the JFK airport in New York....and of course that would happen to Peanut and me (as it turns out the world's most unlucky pair of traveling partners) Realizing that we had made a wrong turn somewhere we slowly started to back track which lead us into the arms of Italian Officers who proceeded to take our passports....apparently this is a big NO NO to do while traveling through Italy ....definitely do not give the random Italian Officers your passport. Eventually we did get our passports back and decided we needed a giant bowl of Italian pasta with bolognese sauce and some red wine to top it off with which was the prefect cure to our horrific experience....after 14 hours and once we were safely on our way to Greece we laughed ourselves until we were blue in the face about the whole tragic turn of events.
SALUTE Peanut!