Concannon Vineyard 'Limited Release' 2005 Petite Sirah

It was one of those lucky times. All the pieces came together.

Ali woke up extra early for school. That meant there was time to fetch the WSJ from the curb, open it, read the Tastings column, and see what they had to say.

Petite Sirah this week, one of our favorites.

They rated one Delicious!. This is rare. And the Delicious! one was only $14.

A $14 Delicious! wine featuring a varietal we love, and time to place an order?

A quick check at the Village Corner web site showed that they had the wine in stock, and the price was the same as in the WSJ. A few clicks later we had six bottles ordered, and the next day (Saturday) we had the wine at home.

We already happened to have a 2004 David Coffaro Petite Sirah open, and so we had a nice tasting. The Concannon was indeed a nice wine: big, rich, dark purple, and went very well with food. It wasn't nearly as big, though, as the Coffaro. David's wines are always rich with fruit, almost sweet, and a bit on the high-alcohol side. I like the Coffaro better for drinking by itself or with cheese; both the Coffaro and the Concannon were nice with a meal.

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Just downloaded Google Chrome. Two quick initial observations.

It installed under my home directory on Windows, not under C:\Program File. This meant that I didn't need to logout, login with an account with admin rights, etc. Nice for people w/o admin rights.

It offers to import my bookmarks from IE or FF. But mine are all in my Google Toolbar. Need to figure out how to access them in some reasonable way.