Sideways...

Well, if you read my earlier post, then you know that I wasn't looking forward to dinner tonight. Funny how life turns out, when you have no expectations and you least expect something you get a treat.

I'm at the restaurant tonight and we're doing the chit chat and I take the wine list and start looking through for a nice wine to order. I'm initially disappointed because its mostly blends and not big on the Cab Sauve dep't which my boss (sitting beside me) really likes.

I get to the Pino section and see something. "Could it be?" I wondered. "Nah, it couldn't!

I see three different bottles of Hitching Post. It can't possibly be the same Hitching Post.

"Um, excuse me waitress?"

"Yes, sir" (everyone always seems to call me "sir" now...see earlier post)

"Is this the same Hitching Post as..."

"Yes sir, it is."

"No, I mean is this the same Hitching Post from the movie?"

"That's right, it is. I'll get Jeff to come over, he'll explain it."

One of my favourite movies of the past couple of years is Sideways. Not only is it about wine, its about guys having a mid-life of sorts and each searching for fulfillment in his own way.

I totally love this movie and often talked to my friends about doing a Sideways tour of our own. I long to visit the wine region of California and doing the tour.

So there I am sitting in the restaurant tonight at a dinner I didn't want to be at staring at a wine list with Hitching Post. (If you've seen the movie, you know the Hitching Post)

So we order a bottle. Hitching Post, Pino Noir, "Rio Vista Vineyard," Santa Maria Valley, California. $110.

Yummy. It was absolutely fantastic. I'm so excited, I'm beside myself. I so have to do that tour.

Pino anyone?

R.