Redwood Creek Pinot Noir 2009 Modesto, California, bottling of French grapes This pinot has a nose of blueberry, teriyaki, vanilla, and cardamom, and even though I don’t like blueberries, it smells like it’d be a great sauce for duck or a thick steak. When sipping, the element of spice is the most pronounced. The cardamom
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13 July, 2010
Triangle Trivia Hunt Update
About six months ago, I lamented the passing of Big Slow Tom’s Trivia from Connolly’s Irish Pub in Cary. This forced my trivia group, the Fallopian Swim Team, to seek better waters elsewhere, a place hopefully nearby some of our trivia members’ homes (mostly based in Cary/Morrisville with Ben and I being the regular out-of-town
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12 July, 2010
6th Sense Syrah 2005
6th Sense Syrah 2005 Lodi, CA Lodi does wine? Who knew? Not this uncultured gourmet, apparently. Also, the back of the bottle has a somewhat gruesome poem about being buried in a barrel of wine. I think it’s meant to be metaphorical, but I don’t really want to imagine someone in the vat this came
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9 July, 2010
Pama-Mama Margarita @ Buffalo Wings and Rings (Morrisville)
Pama-Mama Margarita Buffalo Wings and Rings Grace Park, Morrisville Honestly, this drink didn’t taste much different from the Cherry-aid I had before it, though this was a margarita and the Cherry-aid was a vodka cocktail. The only difference was that the Pama-Mama Margarita was a lot less sour, as whatever citrus was used in the
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8 July, 2010
Camelot Cabernet Sauvignon
Camelot Cabernet Sauvignon California What’s that, you say? Where’s the year? No vintage for you who are so conditioned to expect silly information such as dates with your wine. No, Camelot Cabernet Sauvignon does not wish for you to predispose your tastes with preconceptions of what years might make a good wine. You must drink
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6 July, 2010
Cafe Meridian
Café Meridian 2500 Meridian Parkway & Highway 55 RTP/South Durham Hours: 11-2 Monday through Friday Whole sandwiches and a side: $5.75–$7 Daily special entrees: $4.99–$8.99 Café Meridian comes just before the Highway 55 and 54 crossroads, across the road from Sansui Sushi. Months (years?) ago I saw that they were opening up for lunch soon,
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5 July, 2010
Cherry-Aid @ Buffalo Wings and Rings (Morrisville)
Cherry-Aid Buffalo Wings and Rings Grace Park, Morrisville I’m still a bit confused about what I drank. The ingredients were 3 Olives Cherry Vodka and Buffalo Wings and Rings’s house lemonade. I think I made a mistake in assuming the lemonade would be fresh rather than a mix, so my expectations were higher than they
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