Paradigm and Merus: A Celebration

Five years really passes quickly, when they are not your own children, the twins. We've seen them grow from birth to now and have participated in some of their big milestones such as being baptized in Greece. So now they are five years old! It was a small celebration of the "big friends" since they already had a birthday celebration with their friends. Dad and Mom made smoked chicken and pork tenderloin, cold slaw, potato salad and to commemorate the occasion, they opened a bottle of 1999 Paradigm Cabernet Franc. The color was a clear deep garnet, the aroma, black cherries and the flavor was of cherries. The wine was well balanced. When we got to the 2002 Merus Cabernet sauvignon, we were already on dessert. One of us thought that it smelled of paint stripper and when the suggestion was made that perhaps it was fingernail polish remover, she concurred. We drank the slightly high alcohol rather extracted wine with cupcakes and can say, they did not pair well. Suffice it to say that the twin's fifth birthday was well commemorated by the adults in attendance.