2/3 a bottle into my fair trade wine, I declare it yummy.
I’m drinking a Carménère, which according to Wikipedia, is a member of the Cabernet family of grapes. Carménère started out in France, but is now mostly grown in Chile.
The wine came to me via Etica, a fair trade company that’s a member of Co-op America and Fair Trade Federation. The website tells me more than everything I wanted to know about the wine, which is produced in Chile by the Cooperativa AgrÃcola VitivinÃcola de Curicó Limitada. I also get a descrition of the wine:
Elegant and well-balanced with smoky dark fruits, cumin, bell pepper, roasted meat, spice, cocoa and oak carried by a velvet-smooth texture. This Carménère is one of the most exotic imported red wines to reach the US in many years.
I have to say I’m not tasting the roasted meat, which is prolly a good thing for my pescatarian soul. I definitely get some of the cumin-bell pepper spiciness though :)
The wine’s especially yummy after a rather rough day of teaching. A guest speaker I had lined up totally forgot to show up for the class — which I’d pushed back an hour, to end at 7 pm in stead of 6, just to work around her schedule.
Disappointing, but the class itself wasn’t so much the problem as getting home afterwards — because said speaker was gonna give me a ride home since the DASH, which I usually take to catch the Big Blue Bus 10 to Santa Monica, stops running at 6:30. I ended up taking the Metro 200 to the 720, and got home a nice 2 hours later –
Somehow, a non-emergency yet semi-disastrous event seems to disrupt even my small plans on a near-daily basis. Maybe I just need to learn to ride these things out as if I expected them, considering them par for the course, instead of trying to fight a troublesome fate –
If it happens again, consider taking Metro #38 up to Union Station, which will fit your need until 8:30 or so. I don’t like planning my life around DASH because the service is only periodic, so I try and know Metro alternatives to all of the DASH routes.
Comment by Aaron — April 17, 2007 @ 11:15 pm
Thanks for the tip, Aaron :) My solution up until now has been simply having a non-bus alternative in place if I’m leaving school after 6:30 — I’ve had a friend who lives in the Miracle Mile area drop me off at La Brea / Wilshire to catch the 720 and zip home a couple times which worked great — but knowing about the 38 definitely helps :)
Comment by Siel — April 18, 2007 @ 9:33 am