I suppose it's no surprise that the nectar of the grape brings out the vocal muse in many of us. What is surprising, and wonderful, is how often this seems to happen at Poetic Cellars.
Incredulous? Yes! When I heard about a food and wine pairing offered at Poetic Cellars Winery a couple of weeks ago, I did an auditory double-take. Doughnuts and wine? Are you kidding me?
I’m well acquainted with the wines made by winemaker Katy Lovell, and am particularly fond of her Mourvedre varietal, but even still it stretched the limits of credulity to imagine this, or any other wine, satisfactorily matching up with fancy doughnuts.
Now, Psycho Doughnuts has built quite a reputation for themselves in a very short period of time. Their doughnuts are fresh, imaginative, and delicious in unexpected ways. Maybe that’s the point of pairing them with wine. Unexpected, imaginative and definitely fun.
It’s probably the “unexpected” element that attracted Highlighting Entertainment out of LA to videotape the wine-doughnut tasting for a proposed reality show episode that would air on national cable networks. We missed the actual filming portion of the day due to a prior commitment, arriving at 3:30 to find only crumbs as evidence of the earlier festivities. Like most everyone else, we’ll have to wait for the episode to air and experience this culinary coup from the eyes and tongues of others.
In the meantime, we’ll have to satisfy ourselves with the more traditional approach to wine tasting at Poetic, which as you’ll see below, has often included spontaneous bouts of music and singing. If only I could hold a melody as well as I hold a stemmed glass.
The inviting entrance to the Poetic Cellars tasting room, housed under the same roof as the working winery and barrel storage in a new facility Katy purpose built into the side of a mountain.
