The city is beautiful now – clear skies, crisp sunny days and chilly nights. It’s gorgeous – as long as I’m in the sun…but once I cross into the shade, everything becomes instantly colder…like, add another layer colder. Even the cement feels harder. Not complaining…just telling you how I feel.
My garage rose’ experiment is definitely an experiment. My pinot is more like pinot water…almost clear with a slight touch of pink…would look better as a champagne than a rose'...nowhere near where a rose’ should be. My syrah rose’ has better color, but it’s not as crisp as I’d like it to be. They both taste a little like plastic to me…the lab manager says they smell like candy bananas (like Laffy Taffy) to her. Silly me, I was kinda hoping they would smell like wine.
I’ll have to wait and see what happens – they say it’s in its dumb adolescent stage, while going through malolactic fermentation…that’s when the malic acid turns to lactic acid, which softens up the mouthfeel. So, instead of dumping it down the drain, I’ll hang in there to see if it will taste & look like wine in the near future.
Took a trip to Roseville (NE of Sacramento) for Thanksgiving. Lots of fall colors up there – golden yellow, amber, burnt orange, cranberry red…all the colors we don’t get to see in LA or San Francisco. Then, went wine tasting in Placerville & Plymouth in the Sierra foothills – beautiful area, with even more fall colors. Fields of amber colored grape vines combined with end of day light made for a gorgeous photo opp!
I’ll be in LA for Christmas – hope to see some of you then!
Cheers - Linda
