A quiet night at home, just the way we like it … ordered Chinese from our favourite place (Magnolia in St. Catharines), got our favourite oriental dishes to send off the old year and bring in the new – even made us a plate of brownies to eat before the new year’s diet kicks in on the 2nd … plus a few movies sure to keep us entertained until midnight: Barney’s Version, The Gauntlet and The Expendables 2 (that should bring the New Year in with a bang). Thing is … we never made it to midnight, we fell asleep about an hour short, but we still had great wines, a great meal and each other to ring the whole thing in with, both the night before and the morning of …
The wines we rang old the Old Year with were eclectic: …
Tawse 2011 Quarry Road Riesling
Akarua 2011 Rua Pinot Noir
Louis Roederer Brut Premier