Included in the collection were the delicious Bordeaux wines that we drank, most of which we painstakingly personally moved here in 2 wine cases, in the 1999 I30 we drove 3 days across the country alongside 2 sedated cats in July of 2007. The wine fridge was our first Arizona purchase, which we could fit in the car and bring to our new home, before the heat of the Phoenix summer could ruin the delicious wine - and 2 days before Home Depot could deliver our new GE appliances too.
The Pause Cafe Cognac was given to me as a gift by my buddy François in 2011, when I visited him and his family in France while on a business trip. It was indeed a delicious little Cognac.
The Arizona Stronghold wines that Maynard makes will be dearly missed. It was really nice to be able to find them in Arizona retailers, and in local, sustainable restaurants. I think finding them in California will be quite elusive.
And yes, there's all sorts of California wines I can try. Napa, Sonoma, Russian River, etc. I know. And I will try to keep an open mind. I just find it difficult to pay twice as much for a local Californian wine that is often overly-oaked and inferior quality, when I can be drinking a much better, higher quality, delicious AND inexpensive French, Italian or Spanish red that traveled much farther to make it to the same store shelves, was picked with higher paid labor, and was bottled with strict government regulation and over-sight that provides consistent, repeatable, reliable quality at a reasonable price. But I will try to keep an open mind.
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