Notes from Last Night

about a week ago saw an ad $10 for 3 bottles.. was shopping for fruit and saw the display, Australian Cab/Shiraz. Kept looking and came around again and noticed the year 2002.. damm thought most stuff that old has got to be OK and at a little over $3/bottle what the hell... couldn't wait to get home and get the cork out... should wait I know, breathing stuff, but I poured a bit into a "no tip" (wine glass with no stem) color was deep purple, have learned from the past that anything that looks that good and is a dry wine should be drinkable. Taste was great, like a good wine should, could almost chew it. Hard to do it but left it alone for about 15 minutes while I put the other 2 bottles in our wine cooler. Ya I know red wine at room temp.. not for this guy I like it chilled, any wine. Where I grew up in the UP of Michigan there was a bar on the Nort side of town called Bimbo's, yes he was Italian and for sure the God Father type but a great guy. The drink of choice for most locals was a glass of Fortissimo poured from the gallon jug it came from and kept in the cooler under the bar... also no tip glasses, actually water glasses with a green and red stripe around the glass, italian I think. Plus it was an 8 oz glass and if you BS'd with Bimbo for a while and had a porketta sandwich he usually topped it off for free. Special customers also got some "skin", pig skin that is, from the pig that was roasted in the basement of the bar to go with the sandwich.. anyway back to the down under wine, Good Stuff, I went back and bought a case $40, which you can't beat with a stick, put it all in the cooler and two in the ice box (refrigerator)... this is the first attempt at this so maybe doing a no no but the wine is BoonaRoo and I got it at Sprouts ... it is definately worth $3.33