We have been stuck on #89/100 for a couple of months now. About a year back, an acquaintance mentioned a grape variety from Greece called Rhoditis and I’ve been looking for it ever since she mentioned it.
Well, still no Rhoditis, but I did pick up a couple of new ones yesterday that will complete #’s 90 and 91 out of the required 100.
One of the wines, a non vintage Retsina from Kourtaki of Attica
is a greek “resinated” white wine made from the Savatiano grape. Small pieces of pine resin are added to the must during fermentation imparting the pine flavor. I had read about Retsina and and my expectations we’re set low for this wine and I must say expectations were pretty much met. Pretty color, a not unpleasant nose, and tasted like diluted pinesol – not a taste I’ll likely acquire anytime soon.
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The second wine, also from Greece is 2006 Boutari Kretikos White wine. It is made from The Vilana grape found primarily in Crete. Now this wine was not bad, not great, but not bad. Definitely non aromatic, nice clear pale straw color, and nice taste with a bit of a petroleum characteristic – not riesling like, but close with some tropical fruit. Probably won’t buy it again, but hey it’s number 91 on our Wine Century Club list – 9 to go.
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The Sonos home music distribution system is still in place and continues to be one of my favorite and often-used gadgets. The WAV (wife acceptance value) continues to be high and she is even making sounds like she might want a zone added to her office (hehe goody-goody).
We did follow through on our “Netbook” interest and indeed purchased an Acer machine, but not the Aspire One. The Keyboard and screen were just a little too small for our old eyes and fingers. We settled on the Acer 1810TZ which is classified as a sub-notebook and is slightly larger than the standard netbook. It has an 11.6″, 1024×768 display, standard sized keyboard, and runs Window 7 and weighs in at 3 pounds with the battery installed. The battery has better than acceptable life, providing 8+ hours of continuous operation. It is perfect for us older folks and is great to travel with.
The wine – 2007 Marof Beli Kriz from, of all places, Slovenia – precisely; Prekmurje, Slovenia. The wine is a blend of 65% Sauvignon Blanc and 35% Welschriesling (again, unrelated to the Rhine Rieslings of Germany).
returned from a wonderful trip to the Oregon Wine country – The Willamette Valley specifically. I’ll have more about the trip a little later when I gather my thoughts – but one notable happening was that we picked up another variety on our Wine Century Club quest.
ineyard). As a general observation, Pinot Noirs predominated with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot following. There were others that stood out, among them was a 2001 Valdicava Brunello di Montalcino, and a Blackbird Vineyards Merlot. Another wine that was excellent was the August Briggs Charbono – a standout for us not only for the new taste, but also because we had never had the variety before and were able to challk off another variety on our quest toward 
Actually, it was a sparkling wine and cheese event.
This week we lost our beloved JoJo. She was an 12 year old Golden Retriever who we acquired from 
production, we’re talking about less than 1000 cases and often less than 100 cases. I first heard about the Scholium wines as I followed the wine chatter on Twitter. I signed up for their mailing list to see if I could get my hands on a few bottles to try. The mailing list effort was successful and I was able to directly order a few bottles from the 2009 release (wines produced in 2007 & 2008).