Today is the Vintage Tuesday gang’s favorite day. It’s Tuesday! Tuesdays make Mondays bearable. Actually Monday is referred to as “Tuesday Eve” at the Vintage Tuesday corporate office (which consists of a laptop, cork screw and wine glass) However today is not just any Tuesday it is FAT TUESDAY! You know what that means (maybe??) It is the day before Ash Wednesday when Lent begins so this is the last day to cut lose until after Easter - although we will get a day off for good (or bad??) behavior on St. Patrick’s Day - green wine?.
Oh no, does this mean we will take time off from our twisted tails of the wine trails during Lent? Not on your life. We kind of play by our own rules which can be conveniently made to fit any occasion.
Sooooo… what wine do we have to celebrate Fat Tuesday? Why Fat Bastard of course. See a theme here? It turns out Fat Bastard is a French wine and since much of New Orleans (home of Fat Tuesday) has French roots, it seemed appropriate. Plus…. the bottle was only $9.99 how could we resist.
We went hiking off to our local store again (they love us there) and loaded up. I mean we bought a little bit of wine. This wine was developed as an experiment by Thierry Boudinaud a Frenchman with help from his friend Guy Anderson an Englishman from London. (wish I had these guys in my science class!) They tried the experimental wine at the same time, starred at each other in amazement and the story goes that Thierry yelled out in a thick French accent “now that is a fat bastard” And the rest as they say, is history.
We love heavy reds but this one is so heavy you don’t want to drop it on your foot - it will hurt. A very deep and full bodied wine that goes great with steak (which we had with it) I loved every sip of it. Nothing over powering, just a very good wine.
Here’s to Tuesday!
Angus and Trixie
