Hey, Jerky!

Last night we went to a wine and jerky pairing at a local wine shop, Colorado Wine Company. We showed up a little late, so a lot of the jerky was gone, but we did have a little of BBQ Beef, Spicy Beef, Turkey, Curry Beef, Garlic Beef, Orange Beef, and Peppered Beef jerkies. All pretty good stuff, although the curry one was pretty bad. We also had a few different cheeses, but nothing that really stands out.

The wines we had were:

2005 Claiborne & Churchill Gewurtztraminer, Edna Valley
2004 Obsidian Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon, Red Hills Lake County
2003 Scott Harvey Zinfandel Old Vine, Amador County
2004 Terza Malbec, Mendoza Argentina
NV Opera Brut Champagne

Wine of the night went to the Scott Harvey Zinfandel. We'd had it once before and have liked it both times. The Malbec had enough tannins that it should probably lay down for a couple years before you drink it. The Gewurtztraminer was nice ... no residual sugar at all, so it was dry ... and it's made outside of San Luis Obispo ... good Alsacian style Gewurtz. The sparkler was 100% Chardonnay ... so it was dry, but it still had some fruit to it. The Obsidian Ridge Cab should just be skipped ... it's not too cheap ($25) and there's plenty of better CA cabs out there in that price range.

At the end of the event we bought a bottle of NV Domaine de Courbissac Minervois EOS. We actually only bought it because someone we were with liked the horse on the label. And this can be a lesson ... do not do this. The wine was bad. Just nothing good about it ... it was drinkable, but definitely not good. Fortunately we were able to wash it down with pizza from Casa Bianca, one of the best pizza places in the Los Angeles area ...