BBQ Ribs with Big Red Wines

 BBQ Ribs with Big Red Wines 

Visiting The Cove, our Destin, FL, vacation rental with friends, and in-laws, all from Indiana, Linda prepared BBQ ribs with corn on the cob and baked potatoes, and salad. 

To accompany the dinner, I opened two wine from Indiana producers, one from a winery and vineyard we all pass often on the highway, and another, from near our Alma Matre Indiana University down in Bloomington.

I’ve written about Carpenter Creek Cellars and their Indiana Produced Wines in these pages in this earlier blogpost. 

 

I also opened this 50 year anniversary iconic Napa Cab, to commemorate all of our Fiftieth’s, as we were in each other’s weddings, a long while ago, but this was the first time we’d all been together since our anniversaries. 

We served this wine as part of our celebration wine flight during our Gala Family Anniversary Celebration Dinner at Uptown Cafe, Bloomington, IN, featured in these pages in this blogpost, and several other vintage releases for such applicable anniversaries over the years. 

Eric picked up and brought two hearty big red wines for the occasion - each a perfect complement to the BBQ. 

 

 

I opened and served this Aussie Cab/Shiraz blend first, thinking it would be bigger and more complex than the Prisoner, and was wrong, as they turned out to have the opposite relative profiles from what I expected. Fun with Mollydooker, as Eric, as well as Linda are Mollydookers - (Australian for left handed person (s)). We’ve written about Mollydooker and our fun with their portfolio of wines often these pages …  

Finally, we closed with this unique Indiana Red Dessert wine. Too sweet for most, but inviting with Tiramius dessert, and the salad! 

Great food, fun, fellowship, celebrating, reminiscing…. Fun with wine!