Furnishings

In one of the most shockingly productive days of my life, my living room now sports a couch and a coffee table. The couch is a sleeper love seat, and maybe the ugliest such creation I've ever laid eyes on. (I've laid my legs on worse) I also received an Oeniphile 40 bottle wine rack courtesy of Amazon Prime and UPS. The problem with this is that I now need to buy 25 more bottles to fill it up, and all my expensive stuff (over $15) is still going in the wine fridge so I won't be showing off any Cheval Blanc just yet.

I'll keep it short today with a quick wine un-recommendation and a photo. On my Trader Joe's run a few weeks ago I grabbed a 2007 Tierra Blanca white wine from Tres Pinos in Paso Robles. My theory is everything they had left over went into this - it's a less than thrilling blend of Gewurtztraminer, Chardonnay, Viognier, and Muscat. While the Gewurtz and Viognier gave me hopes of potential, it just blows. It's like taking the worst of what Chardonnay can do and throwing it together with the aromatics of a sucky Gewurtztraminer. I'm assuming that the Gewurtz is the most prominent grape, because that's what I thought it was upon smelling, but it also has absolutely zero acidity and a really bitter finish that even a non-wine snob would be bothered by. Don't pay $4 for this, fork out $6 for a John Oliva's Pain CD in the bargain bin instead. Atrocious.


















Last night's sunset from the control tower in...... drum roll..... HDR!