A Great Wine…By The Glass!

It was a long day and instead of whipping something up in the kitchen I decided to say “heck with it” and head down to a great little neighborhood restaurant that shall remain nameless in this blog, but I’ll give you a hint: it’s named after a large city in Texas.

Anyway, I am a regular at this particular restaurant and although it is a chain, the menu is chock full of such tasty menu items such as aged prime rib and seared Ahi just to name a few. Although I love this restaurant and eat there frequently (its right around the corner from my home), there are two reasons why I return on a regular basis. The first is that they serve dinner at the bar where there is usually a great game on one of their plasma TV’s, and the second is that their “wine by the glass” list is awesome.

They pour one of my favorite wines – The Elu’ by St. Supery. It is a Meritage and the blending varies from year to year. The glass that I had was from a 2004 bottle, and (according to the website) was 66% cabernet sauvignon, 23% merlot, 8% cabernet franc, 2% petit verdot and 1% malbec. Well, overall, this is a magnificent glass of wine with nice easy tannins and lots of blackberry and cherry.