Summer is in full swing!

...which means I'm going off to another small vacation for a few days. Going to be away until next week, but I have notes and pictures for two Chardonnays! I'll post them when I get back:

Meridian Vineyards, Chardonnay, 2007, $7
Rombauer Vineyards, Chardonnay, 2007, $28 (Gasp!)

Yeah, a $28 wine. It kinda goes against what I try to do on this blog (affordable daily wine for college students), but it was for a special occasion. I also happened to drink these two back-to-back, starting with the Rombauer. It made the first sip of the Meridian taste like rubbing alcohol... but after a few more sips I realized it wasn't too bad. It didn't help that the Rombauer was cooled and the Meridian was room temperature... more on that later.


Bevmo had a wine sale (buy one get one for 5 cents), but I didn't buy any wines on sale because you have to buy two of the same ones. :[ I did, however, score 4 new wines: a Merlot, Pinot Noir, a Cabernet Sauvignon (that one looked really tasty from the description...) and a Viognier. You can also see the empty Rombauer bottle peeking into the picture on the right side. For the time being, I have to study study study for a test (tomorrow) and a midterm (on Monday, right after I get back...).

I should really join some sort of wine blog network to improve my current readership from the current ~6 to a short term goal of ~20 readers...

I'll be back on Monday with some shiny new blog posts! :]

What? A break already!?

Sweet Child of Wine will be going on a short vacation. It's off to Vegas, then to some theme parks with family for a few days!

When I get back, I'll fulfill a short backlog of wines that I've tried:

Jonesy Rare Aged Port
Cabernet Sauvignon, 2007, Santa Rita, Chile
Red Bordeaux blend, 2006, Château Meric, France

I took good notes on these wines, so I'm excited to be able to write about them (soon)! Stay tuned! :]

Welcome!

First off, a little bit about me. By day, I'm a third year student at UCLA. By night, I'm a budding wine lover. I started a few years ago by drinking very cheap beer and hard liquor with my friends like your average college student. After a while, I found out that whiskey was my liquor of choice, and soon that fondness somehow turned into love for scotch. About a full year later, after having learned that my palate could improve greatly simply by drinking finer liquors more often, I have finally settled on wine. And thus, the creation of this blog will catalog my foray into the world of wine.... and give me something to do while drinking my wine during this long summer to come!

A few posts soon to come, as soon as I upload the pictures...