West Side Red

West Side Red

As we prepare for our wine dinner tomorrow night as part of the Killington Wine Festival, today was "Chocolate Day". For dessert, we are featuring a "Black Forest Soup" which consists of a combination of Cherry and Chocolate soups. In addition, dessert will also feature hand made chocolate truffles, and hand dipped chocolate covered cherries. All told, I pitted 4 pounds of cherries, and chopped over 5 pounds of really nice chocolate to put everything together. Several of us are still buzzing this evening from the chocolate hit we have been taking all day. (You need to sample things to make sure they come out ok... yeah right!)

The chocolate, cherries, and previously mentioned cheeses are being served with a 2002 'West Side Red" from Paso Robles. This is a nice Rhone blend of Mouvredre, Syrah and Grenache. For those of you who like wine, it has well structured tannins with an up front sweetness of plums and berries, with a nice long round finish. It will be a great finish to tomorrow nights dinner.