Guys… it’s time for Wine of the Week! This week I was choosing between 2 wines, a Chardonnay that I tried earlier on Tuesday and a Pino Noir I drank this evening. I went with…
The Pino Noir. My Dad’s company, that I also work for, does a lot of printing and layout work for the Tondre Winery. They just so happen to pay us partially in cases wine so I decided to pop one of the bottles open and give it a try.
If you click over to their site all the photos are ones my Dad took.
The Tondre Pino Noir was the 2006 vintage. This is what their website says about it:
Before I started trying wines I really couldn’t handle the flavor of Pino Noirs. They tasted really acidic to me. But the more I taste the more I like. This one is really good. I enjoyed a glass before dinner.
I went back for seconds once we were done with dinner.
Max likes this vintage too. It’s their second best, after the 2005 of course.
DINNER
My Grandma had us all over for baked Salmon with roasted potatoes and green beans.
Everything was wonderful. My Mom did most of the cooking. She even took my suggestion and made this recipe from Real Simple.com .
It’s montage time!
I skipped the garlicy-onion bread and had double potatoes.
And for dessert we all enjoyed some fresh plums Max brought us from his work.
These were the messiest, most drippiest plums in the history of the civilized world and it’s a good thing the Queen of England was not invited to dinner because she would not have been impressed.
Well, I’m signing off for tonight. I’ll see y’all tomorrow.
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I do the same thing. I like a glass before dinner and one after. :)
I only have one after if it’s good enough ;-).
So fancy with your wine of the week, I love it! I need to drink some red wine more often, I used to but then stopped. No idea why.
That dinner looks so good, now I’m craving salmon. And since I’m a carb lover I also noticed the amazing looking bread.
That bread would be awesome with crab. Holy cow… now I want crab!!!
I must confess, I’m not all that into wine…but I’m impressed with all your conoisseur type knowledge! And yay for family dinners! :)
HAHA. I’m so glad I sounded so fancy. I seriously know absolutely nothing about wine.
Wow…there’s only one word to describe the look of your salmon dinner–INCREDIBLE! It looks just delicious and I think I have just gotten a sudden craving for salmon!
Hi Amanda. Thanks for commenting. I can’t wait to check out your blog!!!
The salmon was delicious. I even went back for seconds.
Umm that salmon meals sounds and looks incredible and tasty! Oh and so does that BREAD, gosh do I love bread like that :)
Me too! It smelled amazing. Max was eating it like it was candy.
ok. I think I’m going with a red wine next week. Dinner looks delicious!!
Good luck! Red wine is so hard for me to choose. The flavors are so much more intense than white wine.
So salmon is the one fish I don’t like but boy does that fish look to die for!
Really?! You’re the first person I’ve ever met that doesn’t like salmon. It is a more intensely flavored fish… I can totally see it.
Mmmm I love salmon! I’m actually making it tomorrow night for dinner :) My boyfriend doesn’t like it that much, so I bought half a pound and give him a tiny 1/4 sliver of it while I enjoy the rest!
By the way… I love the new welcome picture that says “Hey, I’m Maren!” I wasn’t totally in love with the first one you made, so I was super excited to see that we were on the same page haha. Love the new one :) Good choice.
Thanks Girl!!! I hope my surgery comment on your blog wasn’t too intense. It’s just such a big decision.
Haha… look out for my email! Thanks so much for your comment :) It meant a lot.
I got it and I’m so sorry. It seems like such a torn position to be in.
Wine for doing work… uhh can I please apply??
I not only may have to try this wine (you look quite happy with it :-P!) but I may also start doing this and send some link love your way! Love this idea!!
Hope you’re having a great weekend!!
Awesome, you should totally join in the fun. Alysia at Slim Sanity hosts Wine of the Week and we link to her post on Fridays.
This wine was really really good. Definitely try it.