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Pimp Daddy and I just had the most amazing night. (No, not like that!)
It involved six cases of our best hootch; 160 incredible people who paid to be there; a chef who has created culinary masterpieces for Kings, Queens, and Presidents; a top notch serving staff; the Food Network; a rubber chicken; and... a train.
More later. I need to land.
El Bloggo Rollo this morning popped up two very nice reviews:
Thanks go out to all the reviewers who have been willing to take a chance and try wines from a little wine region in California that no one has ever heard of...
No, this is not wine reviewers to date! (Not that some of them don't look quite date-able...) Rather, some reviews of Twisted Oak are starting to pop up around El Bloggo-sphere-o, and I see that I missed a couple of shout-outs, so I think a recap is in order...
Newest on the list this week is a review by the Winehiker of the 2005 Calaveras County Viognier. Winehiker has also reviewed the 2004 Calaveras County Tempranillo.
Basic Juice recently did a nice post about all of the wines (and, uh, chicken farts). And, Winesmith gave us his own take on the wines and the whole Rubber Chicken thing... Alan has also posted reviews (here and here) on WineLog of the 2004 Petite Sirah and the 2005 Viognier.
Finally, Open Bottles has a few reviews of our wines, just search on Twisted Oak and they'll pop up. I missed them mostly because they are a wine logging site (like WineLog) and not a blog.
Have you seen a recent review of Twisted Oak out on the web? If you have, please drop us a line!
And yes you too can post a wine review to El Bloggo Torcido! Just follow the instructions here. Clunk!
My friends Bill and Rusty hosted a most excellent dinner the other night for their neighborhood wine group, and (guess what?) Twisted Oak was poured. I was invited so that I could explain the wines (easy), explain the Rubber Chickens (hard), and perhaps even explain myself (yeah, right.)
I learned:
, our 2003 Tanner Vineyard Syrah, and our 2004 Calaveras Tempranillo all paired very well with the delicious Pork Loin Roast with Fresh Plum Sauce that Bill prepared (in fact, I think the roast showed the wines very well!)If you and your neighborhood group are having a wine dinner with Twisted Oak wines, please do drop us a line - we can at least help with the food pairing, and maybe more - and when it is over: what worked and what didn't, what you liked and what you didn't, and send us some pictures!
Here are some from the other night... the "before" picture...
El Jefe & Witchy Bill (that's Bill on the right)...
Rusty...
Steve and Shawn, or maybe it was Shawn and Steve...
Hot Witchy Action...
Le Aftermath...
Diana in Monterey wrote in via the website:
"Loved your wine....the entertainment on the bottle, big bonus. If you're out with people and run out of things to say, its the perfect wine!"
I guess that translates to: "Tastes great!" "More conversational!"
(thanks Diana!) (Rosado example below!)
Winesmith shares his Twisted with us at the White House. (Yes, that White House.) I can only imagine what the Secret Service thought....
Thanks Alan!
The sun is warm. The trees colorful. The wine yummy. Why not leaf town and come up?
Photo by El Jefe, taken this morning at the Twisted Oak tasting room in Murphys.
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