All in all, there is not much we can complain about. We don't think we had more than 15 inches of snow, which began falling in earnest around 4 p.m. on Friday afternoon, Feb 8. By that time, my husband had picked up our son, who timed his visit from Washington, D.C. to coincide with the blizzard of 2013. Our lights began flickering around 7:30 so we decided to turn off our computers and hunker down. We woke around midnight and much to our relief, we still had power! The next morning, we woke up to a message from Governor Malloy saying that all roads have been closed to travel. Looking out from our front window, we saw some kind of wire dangling across our street. My husband determined that it must either be a cable or phone wire and this was confirmed by our neighbor who said that it was no longer in use, so coiling the wire up, we started to shovel.
Our street had still not been plowed and we didn't know how the major roads were so we made use of our confinement by reading until it became time for dinner. Hmmm....not much to eat besides cold cuts we bought just in case we didn't have power. However, taking a page from the Iron Chef, we made nachos with blue corn tortilla chips, a mélange of cheeses and leftover chili. While I was making this concoction, my husband looked for a suiable wine and he came up with the 2010 Paumanok Assemblage. With my first sip, I thought, "Wow! luscious fruit with a backbone of soft tannins!"
On the back of the bottle:
2010 is one of our best Grand Vintages at Paumanok. This Assemblage is a blend of 35% Merlot, 33% Cabernet Sauvignon, 21% Petit Verdot and 11% Cabernet Franc. 445 cases were bottled.
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