I'm in the middle of nearly three weeks on the road. As I write this post I'm 30,000 feet in the air somewhere over Nebraska (probably). After nearly two solid weeks on the road, I returned home last Thursday in need of something.
Not just anything but something really special.
Since the dreaded fiscal cliff we just went over, our friends at the Transportation and Safety Administration decided to make life a little more difficult. Lines are longer. People are just a tad bit less friendly. Ok. Maybe not "people" but I know I certainly was!
By the time I got to the house on Thursday I was looking forward to that special treat. Just before all the travels began, I received my shipment of Chardonnay from Pete and Cathy Seghesio's new venture -- Journeyman Wines.
I wrote about their new venture a few posts back in "Taking a New Journey through Wine" but I hadn't yet tasted their wine.
It arrived just as I was leaving town for California for a week and so the wine sat in the trunk of the car for a little over a week. I was trusting that the trunk -- even if it was around 35 degrees outside would be warmer in the garage at the airport rather than in my 75 to 80 degree office.
While I normally prefer red wines, I was anxious to try this one. After our visit to the Central Coast region, I also received a little more wine than I should have ordered. Now I have to get to drinking the wine. Actually, I've now had to take six shelves out of the wine cabinet to get all my wine appropriately stored. Like I said, time to have a party and drink up.
Back to some Chardonnay. I came home to a great meal of chicken breast, veggies and a baked potato. Some good home cooking that I longed for after nearly two weeks of being on the road. I called ahead and asked Roxanne to open up a bottle of the Journeyman Chardonnay.
Over the last couple of months I've had some really delicious Chardonnays -- especially the Bacigalupi Vineyard Chardonnay made with grapes from the same vines that produced some of the grapes that made the historic Paris Tasting. (Read about it in my post "Experiencing my Own Bottle Shock".)
I had already tasted some of the Journeyman Chardonnay from the big green egg as it was in the middle of the malolactic fermentation so I had high hopes for the wine.
And I was not disappointed.
This is a delicious wine. They say that music can soothe the savage beast but I'll tell you this wine soothed my inner beast. After a week on the road dealing with grumpy travelers, losing my way through Philadelphia, narrowly missing a barricade trying to pick up a phone call on my blue tooth, this wine was just what I needed.
I'm hosting the next Mondays @ Mark's on Tax Day. I think that I'll be doing a blind tasting between three of my favorite Chardonnays: one from Bacigalupi Vineyards, one from Chamisal (the Califa blend) and this wine. I'll report back in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, I'd sure recommend giving the Journeyman Chardonnay a taste.
In the meantime, if there's a wine you think I should try, please let me know. I'd love to try something new.
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