I'm going to stray from my usual blogs involving local Virginia wine. I know, first I go on vacation and then I don't blog about Virginia wine, where am I doing? However, I figure in honor of vacation it is OK to bend rules.
Our trip to the outer banks was particularly uneventful. Traffic was non-existent, (that could have something to do with our O'dark thirty departure), but anyway, I was grateful for no traffic and aside from seeing over 20+ cops going around Interstate 64 in Norfolk, the trip was quite pleasant.
As with all great and warm sunny locations our group decided grilling was on order for dinner and what wine goes well with grilling? Yep, bubbly. However, tonight's wine is not a typical bubbly from a bubbly region in France, but from the down under continent of Australia. Other uniqueness about this particular bottle was its packaging. Instead of a cork as most bubblies are sealed with, this was sealed with a metal top like that of a beer bottle.
Tonight's dinner consisted of grilled shrimp, grilled spicy hot sausage, and Julia Child's recipe for potato salad. Our wine as mentioned before comes from Australia. It is a Saivignon Blanc done in an effervescent style. And best of all, a great view of the ocean.
This wine is made by Lake Chalice Winery and called Cracklin Savie. It was big citrus bomb. It had a lemon and lemon verbena on the nose. It followed with a crisp acidic lemon grapefruit flavor on the pallet with a surprising smooth finish with the acidic front it had. It went well with our meal and was very pleasant deck sipper for our first day of vacation.
Our trip to the outer banks was particularly uneventful. Traffic was non-existent, (that could have something to do with our O'dark thirty departure), but anyway, I was grateful for no traffic and aside from seeing over 20+ cops going around Interstate 64 in Norfolk, the trip was quite pleasant.As with all great and warm sunny locations our group decided grilling was on order for dinner and what wine goes well with grilling? Yep, bubbly. However, tonight's wine is not a typical bubbly from a bubbly region in France, but from the down under continent of Australia. Other uniqueness about this particular bottle was its packaging. Instead of a cork as most bubblies are sealed with, this was sealed with a metal top like that of a beer bottle.
Tonight's dinner consisted of grilled shrimp, grilled spicy hot sausage, and Julia Child's recipe for potato salad. Our wine as mentioned before comes from Australia. It is a Saivignon Blanc done in an effervescent style. And best of all, a great view of the ocean.
This wine is made by Lake Chalice Winery and called Cracklin Savie. It was big citrus bomb. It had a lemon and lemon verbena on the nose. It followed with a crisp acidic lemon grapefruit flavor on the pallet with a surprising smooth finish with the acidic front it had. It went well with our meal and was very pleasant deck sipper for our first day of vacation.
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