Very interesting report. That was a generous portion of the sweet wine! Here they serve it in much smaller qualities. When I could drink I just adored a good sweet wine. When we were in your fine state we did a wine tour. A limo took us around many estates. We tasted one sweet wine that I feel for never had before and I regretted not getting it! Do you know this was the wine! I recall the story!
Hmmmm I was thinking the portions were really small! I'm glad you enjoyed your tour of our state!
The amuse bouche yum. The food is wonderful. Like you say difficult to pair food with sweet wine. In the UK we call them dessert wines we only serve them with dessert.
Normally I think these wines are only served as dessert wines. They did mention that it was a challenge to pair them with dinner.
That Duck! I want to grab it. The beef! That dessert... I am jumping into my ipad.
Great update. Love the photos of the fireworks too.
It all sounds really good right now! Thank goodness that it's a holiday and we have a big meal planned.
What a cool wine dinner! I don't love the super sweet wines anymore but those sound really interesting. That castle is so beautiful. Can't wait to see it soon!
Jill in CO
I'm not a huge fan of the super sweet wines either, but I could appreciate them for what they are. I was glad to have tried them.
Seems like a good plan... I hope the next part all works out. The pre-screening of the PBS documentary would have been something that I'd have jumped all over! I was excited to finally see it when it came out.
It was really neat. Floyd Norman was there and we got to speak with him at great length in the preshow reception. He was such a nice man and so neat to talk with him. It was interesting to see some of the clips in advances and hear the people in the film talk about them.
So... yeah, this really puts it into perspective about how long this wine has been around and how highly it is regarded.
Yup, sure does!
Wow. Definitely a little bit above my price range. I'm not even a big fan of wine to begin with. I'll stick which choking down a $10 bottle from a local winery if I feel the need to drink wine.
I'm a fan of wine, but it doesn't have to be pricey for me to enjoy it. I can appreciate a good wine, and on a day like today we will enjoy some very nice bottles of wine with our dinner, but for the most part, I'm OK with a $5 bottle of wine. Unless I'm celebrating something special, mostly my wine comes out of a box!
That dinner looked amazing. I can understand why Fran was so keen to attend this even though it through a spanner in the works in terms of your other plans.
It all worked out so that was good.
I think that honour goes to Eiswein. I quite like Trockenbeerenauslese, but Eiswein is a bit too much for me.
I like Eiswein, but in small doses and with a dessert.
I think the technical term for this is syrup ;-)
I think that's what they called.
This looks and sounds absolutely delicious.
I loved the nearly empty park photos.
It was delicious and I love being the park when it is nearly empty.
What a great evening with dinner and wine tasting. All of the food and wine looks very nice.
Very nice of the pics at DL during the Halloween season that night.
It was a great evening. Halloween season at the park is great! Now it's all decked out for Christmas, but you know that of course.
What a delightful dinner, I understand why Fran wanted to go. The only wine I have ever enjoyed was a raspberry wine, so I think I might have enjoyed this event. Did you like the one that was paired with the dessert? I'm glad you were able to make it work
The park at night is so pretty!!!
I enjoyed all the wines, I just wished that they would have poured slightly larger glasses!
What an awesome meal!! Tokaji is pretty well known around here, even though I have to admit I do not really like it. But then I only have a handful of wines I really enjoy.
I still need to catch up on your other trip. Guess it's time for it now.
I would imagine it would be well known since the region is relatively close to you. I've rarely met a wine that I didn't enjoy!
Caught up again. Everything looks tasty.
Glad you're keeping up!
Oh my gosh! I haven't really been on here in a while and sat down this evening with my first thought being "I hope there's a franandaj trip report!" Click to this section et voila
Now to read!!
I hope that you have been enjoying! This report has been quite full of ups and downs!
Dinner looked amazing, all that food pron, but honey that dress and you are gorgeous.
Thank you.
Those boxes.... lots of shopping I see. So how was the adult chocolate drink, what was in it?
The adult chocolate shake was awesome. It had chocolate sauce, vanilla ice cream, Bailey's, Vodka, and a couple other liquers.
That wine region sounds very interesting, and the food presented along with it and the pairing I find exciting. I love caviar (back when I ate those kind of things), when we were in Russia, they served it with porcelain spoons. Have you been able to find those wine in your local stores? If the price point was lower would you buy them? Just asking it is worth me to look for them?
I haven't looked for them in the stores. There are plenty of other wines that I would go for before those, only because they are so expensive, and I could find a wine from California that would be almost as tasty, but much less costly.