I live in the burbs, outside the city limits. I fried one for a Berserkerfest in my back yard and Ned and Randy didn’t have me arrested (they weren’t there), so I’ll take that as a good sign. We do it on the grass away from the house but we’ve never had a problem.
Everyone who is coming appreciates good wine, and I am not getting any younger, so my guess is that I will break out some good stuff and go for these. Other than a bubbly, I like to keep it New World for such a holiday.
2000 Charles Heidsieck Champagne Brut Millésimé
1998 Araujo Cab (Yes, I know 98 was a bad year but I have had the wine blind and it is great)
2001 St. Jean Cinq Cepages
2007 Saxum Broken Stones
2001 David Bruce Pinot Noir Central Coast
2004 Aubert Quarry Chardonnay
2017 Sine Qua Non Tectumque (my son loves their whites)
A 2 hour decant will help that 2013SS. My daughter and her boyfriend are still talking about it when they drank it the second day (no decant first day).
It’s really good. I am headed to the shop today to get a few bottles for the extended fam to drink. I’ll look first to domestic wines but if I don’t find anything in the range I want, I’ll have no qualms about going with french or, more likely, Italian
For the older adults:
Pinots: Kutch and Anthill Farms Peter’s Vineyard
Zin: A few Carlisle’s
And a couple of Peter Lauer rieslings for the wife
For the young 20-somethings:
Whatever odd bottles of wine I have laying around that I place no real value on. I’ll plop a case on the table and tell 'em to have at it.
Was just down in the cellar plotting my strategy - I’m going to start with side-by-sides of the 2016 & 2017 Goodfellow Richard’s Cuvée and Durant Chards.
Then I’ve got a vertical of the Berserkers Cuvée - '13 & '14 courtesy of Patricia Green, then the '17 from Marcus.