When the Harvest is done, and the Wine is finished fermenting and put to bed for the winter, I like to get far away from the vineyard.
This year, I'm in the Caribbean, writing this from Dickinson's Bay on Antigua. I've done some scuba diving, and I've been sampling the local rum. Last night, I had dinner at a restaurant over the water. The wine list showed about 8 reds, one from Lodi & the rest from Europe, Argentina and Australia. I ordered a Montipulciano, and as a backup, a Bordeaux. Turns out that they only had three wines on the list... the Lodi Cab, an Australian Shiraz and an Argentinian Pinot.
I went with the Australian Shiraz, which turned out to be a Shiraz-Cab blend. We are spoiled in California for wines, but the weather is definitely so much nicer here right now!
Going to English Harbor tomorrow, where we'll see an 18th-century dockyard once home to the future Admiral Horatio Nelson. The rum is good, and the ocean is warm!
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