great friends and epic wines

my friend chris invited me and phineas over to a family bbq at his mother-in-law's house today. i'd been to another bbq with them about a month ago and any chance i get to spend time with chris i jump at it. you see, chris is good peeps. talented flash guy, loving father, devoted husband... we should all be a little more like chris. and his family is just incredible. so open and warm and accepting and interesting and interested in the world.... and phineas gets a chance to dog out with chris' pooch gravy and 5 or 6 other dogs... how could i say no to an invitation like that?

ANYHOW, chris' mother-in-law is an avid collector of bordeaux and tonight she broke out some mind-blowers.

behold...


1990 vieux château certan - pomerol


1998 chateau la mission haut-brion

and a 1989 chateaux d'yquem sauternes that i was so blown away by that i forgot to take a picture of it.

i'm not even going to attempt to describe these indescribable wines. any description i could come up with would, i'm certain, be so far off the mark in terms of accuracy that the attempt would be a disservice to anyone who reads this. suffice to say that these wines were RE... TAR... DED.

and at the end of the evening, chris breaks this box of chocolates that his father-in-law had brought over from singapore that tasted like nothing i've ever had... quite possibly the most decadent chocolate i've ever tasted.

and then he sends me home with a couple boxes.

i'm so not worthy.... and yet i look forward to the next bbq!

(the disconnect in that last statement boggles the mind)