Wine and Tapas

This year for Valentine's Day, Dan and I hosted a wine tasting party in our new home. Our guests enjoyed a tapas menu, which included marinated Manchego with roasted red peppers, chorizo and black bean empanadas, artichoke and olive tapenade with goat cheese, serrano wrapped asparagus, rojo grilled shrimp, picadillo, tres leches cupcakes and chocolate covered strawberries. We tasted four different kinds of Spanish wine (two whites, two reds), and, of course, had beer on hand for those that didn't want wine once the tasting was done.

We had a great time visiting with everyone and the last of our guests left at midnight so hopefully that signals they had a fun time as well.

Cheers from Denise who liked

the second white wine, a Verdejo

called Spring in a Bottle

Yum, dessert! Tres Leches cupcakes

and chocolate covered strawberries

Kevin, Lindsay and

Shelby enjoying the

first wine - Las Brisas -

a Spanish white that is

like a Sauvignon Blanc

Red wine tasting room with a

romantic fire going to get everyone

in the Valentine's Day spirit!


Scott, Krista, Cindy and Brad -

Brad has a beer at this point

but we broke him down by the

time we hit the red wines and

he got a glass and started

tasting along with us!