Little Black Dress Wine: The discovery

Little Black Dress Wine: The discovery.
Booze N’ Buddies started with a phone call from my friend Brandy. I can jokingly refer to her as my Booze Buddy. You’ll be hearing more on that topic as the blog grows.

I got a call from Brandy while she was at our favorite liquor store. It was kind of funny because she almost sounded frenetic. She will probably be mad when she sees this. Sorry Brandy.
She asked if I ever had little black dress. I’m like huh? What do you mean? The wine she answered. They make a wine called little black dress?

I like to try wines that have fun names. How cool I answered. I wonder what it tastes like? Silly me, Hence the phone call. Well? Hmm my memory begins to kick in. I’ve had Pink Truck Wine and it was good remember you had some too. We also had Red Truck Wine.
Pink truck good. Red truck bad, in our opinion anyway.

I don’t like sweet wine she says. I’m like refresh my memory what do you consider sweet. Cause I can never remember exactly how to tell sweet from dry.
Brandy begins reading the bottle - It’s a Pinot Grigio. I like Pinot Grigio I said. I’ve had it a couple of times over the last few months and have enjoyed it every time. Plus you sound so sophisticated when you order it. I assured her that she would probabIy enjoy it. So I wished her luck with her endeavor told her to enjoy her wine and said goodbye.

I read once that when a person first starts drinking wine, they prefer the sweet ones until they can “ appreciate” a good dry wine. I had always thought that Zinfandel was sweet but was never quite sure. So I began researching and I found that Zinfandel is a Lightly Sweet Wine and Pinot Grigio is a dry wine.
I texed Brandy a couple of days later and asked her what happened with her wine night. (she invited me to share, but family commitments kept me away)
She bit the bullet and bought Little Black Dress Wine. Pinot Grigio.
OKAY??? I asked her how was it? Ugg! that is a direct quote too.
Was it the Little Black Dress Wine? or was it the Pinot Grigio I asked. Probably both she said. But I drank it anyway cause it was hot out and she was doing yard work.She said it had "the taste " Like kerosene I asked yes like kerosene.I felt so bad cause I’m the one who told her that I thought Pinot Grigio was good.
I explained my thoughts if the wine is chilled really well it takes the sharp taste away and she agreed with that as well.
We talked about having to add an ice cube to a glass of wine to tone down the sharp taste. That’s when we decided that we should definitely start a wine tasting club.

The next day when I went to pickup my son who was playing at Brandy’s with her kids, She offered me a glass of wine. What the heck I said this can be the first meeting of our wine tasting. As it turns out the same night that she bought Little Black Dress Wine, Brandy bought a bottle her old faithful tried and true White Zinfandel By Beringers.
We began discussing the merits of breathing and chilling. I took a sip of the chilled wine wow it was tasty. It was very crisp and I thought somewhat sweet and just a tad fruity.
I remembered why I used to like White Zin. Brandy said that she did let the wine breathe for a little bit.
She noticed that this Zin was different, It’s a 2007 from the California collection. I’ll be checking that out for sure. Brandy was happy to have a “ good” glass of wine again. My curiosity is definitely peaked now. I’m curious about Little Black Dress Wine, Beringers California Collection, sweet VS. dry and Breathing. I’ll have the answers in my next Blog
Cheers to you!
Rebekah

Welcome to Booze N' Buddies

This blog was created When a friend and I were talking about starting a weekly or Bi-weekly wine tasting club. We are neophytes as far as wine is concerned. We thought with summer around he corner, this would be a nice way to pass a nice summer evening. However, with summer around the corner, we realized that it was almost impossible to find a mutual evening that worked for both of us. If this was nearly impossible with just two of us, what would happen with 6 or 8 of us trying to get together. I was determined that our Idea was going to work. We were going to learn about wine and other spirits. We were going to enjoy sipping a beverage on cool summer night. And that my friend was how this blog was born. Cheers to you - Rebekah