Opening a bit of History the Night Before

When we returned from our October 2006 trip, we stowed a bottle of Mitterhein Riesling in our luggage, wrapped in socks (a tip from our flight attendant friend who was pictured on the "4F and 4G" post). While in Oberwesel, which is smack dab in the Mitterhein area, we had an amazing bottle of halbtrocken (half dry) Riesling. We weren't able to buy any while we were there, but in Berlin we found some bottles at KaDeWe and bought one.

We brought it home and on every anniversary, Christmas dinner, Thanksgiving dinner, or random German meal, we were tempted to open it. We never did. It's a 2004...and finally...tonight we opened it.

Tastes of apple, earth, lime, grass, even vanilla and a hint of star anise. Haha, yeah, right, I wish I could smell and taste all those flavors, but that's sort of what it reminds me of...woohoo, special things like that are always cool.

We leave in the morning, we're pretty much all packed, house is somewhat clean, and the fun nerves are starting. Gotta get a good night of sleep!

Tschüß!