Jul 11 2008
Celebrating Our Four Year Anniversary
Today is our wedding anniversary, and Chrissy and I have been married for four years! We had mutually decided to not do anything for our anniversary, since we now concentrate our resources on raising Aiden properly instead. I take that to mean “don’t go nuts” as opposed to “don’t do anything”. We often mark significant occasions with gifts or outings, and Chrissy likes to be surprised (which is hard to do, since I have a hard time keeping a secret).
To celebrate our anniversary modestly, I bought two bottles of Inniskillin Vidal Icewine (2006) from “winebuyer.com“. We first tried “ice wine” during our trip to Niagara Falls, one of our first vacations together. There is a small village there called “Niagara On The Lake” with plenty of wine shops. We stopped for a couple of wine tastings at one of their festivals, and ended up bringing several bottles of Inniskillin home. We’ve even given a bottle away as a wedding present (it’s that good).
Ice wine is interesting because it is harvested from frozen Vidal grapes. It gets cold enough in Canada that the grapes will freeze on the vine in the first frost of the year. They only sell it in skinny 375 ml bottles because the batches are so small. The wine that is made from frozen grapes is different from anything that you’ve ever tasted. It’s sweet and syrupy, like a desert wine, but it’s also rich with a little acidic. The last one we tried, the 2004, had undertones of apple and pear.
We might not be able to enjoy our wine for a couple of weeks, though, since Chrissy is very pregnant. Maybe just a sip? She already has plans to restock our nine-months-depleted wine rack as soon as Gavin is born. We really like Reislings, and usually have a selection of sweet white wines in the kitchen. In the meantime, congratulate us on four great years!
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