Good Morning!

I received an email yesterday that ask me if I were stuck on an island with only one wine to drink for the rest of my life, what would it be? My mind went into overdrive, do I have a corkscrew? If not, I want a screwcap wine and since it is an island, it will be warm so should I do a crisp white wine or do a red because it would warm my spirit in the cooler nights. Then I was worried about what kinda wine glass would I have? Our would I pull a Mrs. Howell and use a coconut as my container?

This really had me wound up for a few minutes, then I took a deep breath and said what would I want? It came down to two wines I would either want my wine, TJR Select Fireplace (it’s a red, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc blend) or I would want Don Melchor Cabernet 2006, This is by far one of my favorite wines ever.

Why these two wines? I figure, I do not have refrigeration, so whites and sparkling wine would not thrill me. Then, I thought if I was stranded, I would miss home and drinking a wine I made would make me feel still connected to my life back home. Then I thought if I could not drink TJR Select, I would go for the Don Melchor because I have enjoyed that wine all over the world with friends and at many special occasions and maybe that would make me feel better since I would be sitting there, with nothing but time on my hands.

Both wines are great, my TJR Select will be coming outta the barrel in April and I can’t wait for you to try it. I started to think about whether the wine would come in bottles or barrels. If the wine came in bottles, I would write notes in them and put the cork on, throw them in the water and hope someone will find me….if the wine came in barrels, maybe after I have finished off 4 barrels, I would pull a Tom Hanks and strap them together put a board on top and set sail for someplace new. I would hope that I could find something to call my friend like, he had Wilson. Maybe I could find a Coconut and name it after my best friend Cubby and talk with it while I was pondering life and drinking wine.

Who knows? I hope I am never in the position to be stranded. Life without blogging about my random thoughts might be pretty dangerous!

Happy Monday!

Much LOVE and wine,

Tammi