Belated Book Club Blog

Seeing as how we're now coming up on our 2nd top-100 book club meeting (this month's pick, Lolita; Progress so far, page 31; date of meeting, Wednesday; freak-out-level on not being further along in the book, low to moderate. Still have plenty of time) this seems like a good time to document the wines that made their way into our first meeting a month ago. Back in the day when the book on the docket was Willa Cather's Death Comes to (for?) the Archbishop.

Since the book is set primarily in the American Southwest, but the characters are mostly French, we opted to not go with wines from either the US or France.

Instead, we had a nice port, some sherry (in honor of BY's affinity for such and the fact that we were celebrating her 2 month old birthday), and a crowd pleasing pinotage (an underappreciated grape, certainly). Note that the French wine in the photo, a very nice Alsatian pinot blanc, was not drunk during the discussion of French Missionaries in the harsh desert environs of the 19th century American territories. The missionaries weren't from Alsace anyway.

Since this week's meeting involves a Russian author, one thing we should not be drinking is vodka. or white Russians. and maybe by extension, milk.

And since Lolita was written originally in English we of course won't want wines from any English speaking regions, so that takes out the US, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Maybe a nice Tokaj...