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Grey Fox New Release Party

Cluster and Roses - Day 37
Cluster and Roses – Day 37 (Photo credit: Velo Steve)

We were excited about the prospect of a new release wine-pairing dinner. We readied ourselves for an exciting wine experience when we received word that Grey Fox would be hosting a wine-pairing dinner. Traditionally, when I’ve heard the term wine pairing, I think of a dinner of several courses where each course is paired with its own unique wine. This was not the case.

Instead, each course was paired with one wine, a new release white wine, Verdelho. The wine started off good when we had it with the crackers and cheese prior to the first course, a yogurt-berry cold soup. Unfortunately, after the sweetness of the soup, the wine took on a medicine/cough syrup quality that couldn’t be shaken after subsequent courses of salad, fish, and desert. I was sad because had the wine pairing dinner been treated properly. I think that their wines would have been highlighted for us.

Previously, we found Grey Fox to have good wines – especially when it comes to their ports. We have a good number of Grey Fox wines on hand. I just wish they had done more to showcase the wine, rather than knowingly mismatch it with such a sweet dish out the door.

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Ronda Bowen

Ronda Bowen is a writer, editor, and independent scholar. She has a Master of Arts in Philosophy from Northern Illinois University and a B.A. in Philosophy, Pre-Graduate Option, Honors in the Major from California State University, Chico. When she is not working on client projects from her editorial consulting business, she is writing a novel. In her free time, she enjoys gourmet cooking, wine, martinis, copious amounts of coffee, reading, watching movies, sewing, crocheting, crafts, hanging out with her husband, and spending time with their teenage son and infant daughter.

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