Quoting Bill <[email protected]>:
The last of the guests just went home, and Christmas dinner was very much a success. We seated nine this year, including ourselves, and served roasted chickens, one with bread stuffing, the other with sausage, yam cooked with maple syrup and cranberries (very, very yummy), mashed potatoes (sounds boring, but I did them, and I start everything with a generous amount of butter, they were pretty good), mixed veggies in a white wine and cheese sauce, gravy, of course. I served a Spanish Rose and a Chilean Carmenere, and had a Sauvignon Blanc, another Chilean entry ready, but no one wanted white, so it stayed capped. Yes, capped. More and more of the wines we are getting here are screw capped. Apparently it is nearly as good, but I still prefer pulling a cork.
When we we in the USA last year we were surprised to find almost all of the wine under cork. Pretty much all Australian wine, even premium stuff that I can't afford to drink, has been bottled under screw cap for about the last 10 years. There was some debate initially about whether cork or screw cap was better but the general consensus seems to be that screw cap causes less problems and wines keep longer. Of course, they may not develop in bottle in the same way as wine under cork.
The dinner sounds delicious - mind if I turn up next year?
Merry Christmas and a happy day off to everyone.
Thanks and the same to you and yours and all PDMLers - we're sitting back and enjoying the test match between Australia and India this Boxing Day afternoon, accompanied by the odd glass of Riesling (screw capped, of course...).
-- Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
