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It’s hard to believe, but Ryeth and I finished off 3 bottles of wine yesterday just between the two of us, and we aren’t typically drinkers. It took from about 6pm until midnight, but it was still enough to make Ryeth wake up feeling a bit hung over at 7am this morning

We first had a bottle of Toad Hollow Amplexus. This is a sparkling white from Toad Hollow. The joke about this wine is that they snuck the bottle label past the wine bottle approving agency (whoever that is). Amplexus is the biological term for mating frogs So, the label on the bottle shows two frogs stepping out of a reed stand, suppossedly just after having amplexus The wine itself is a fairly dry white with a bit of an aftertaste or twang to it. I only give it a 6 on a scale of 1 to 10 since I don’t necessarily like that aftertaste.

The second bottle was Henry Estate Oregon Gewurztraminer. Again, it was a dry white with a bit of an aftertaste. Not the greatest in my books. I give it a 6 also.

The third was a Moselland ArsVitis Riesling. This one was much better. No aftertaste, lightly sweet but not so sweet as to start tasting syrupy after a few glasses. Much easier to drink. I give this one a 9. It’s the second bottle of this wine that I’ve had and both times I thoroughly enjoyed it. Last time I found it was at World Market. I’ll have to go back and look for more. I keep intending to keep a bottle around as a decorative item because it has a really pretty artistic painting on the backside of the bottle that is meant to be viewed through a clear spot in the glass on the front of the bottle with the wine acting as both a magnifier and a color adding agent, but I keep drinking it instead

Ryeth woke up feeling slightly ill, I felt fine. Hmmm…wonder if she got more of that Riesling than me or if I just had more stamina I’ll have to try and count glasses of that Riesling in my mind to make sure I didn’t get shorted. Although, I guess my slight weight advantage helps me out here too.