What Wine Should I Drink on a Rainy Day? - Pinkies Up Ep. 8

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Welcome everybody to Pinkies Up. If you are new to this series, this is a very important wine series where we aim to answer questions that regular people, like me, have about wine. Nick is our wine expert. I'm the regular person. So on this episode, we are answering the question: what wine should I drink on a rainy day? So listen on.

SPEAKER_01 0:23

Welcome to Pinkies Up, a series where we answer questions normal wine drinkers like Bridget have about wine. I'm Nick, and I'm here to answer these questions in a way that makes sense, whether you drink your wine with your pinky up or you drink it in a solo cup. Let's see what's going on this month. Hey guys, we're here in the Lake Shima Country Means Wine section, and we're trying to plan out what we're doing for this month's pinkies up. We have a few ideas. I think we've settled on one. I think so. Um so it's spring, you might be listening to this whenever, but we like to do seasonal. So that's how we drink. You had um, yeah.

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I always struggle with like Mother's Day and Easter, but we're past Easter pretty much.

SPEAKER_01 1:04

You know, it's an easy one. Pinot Noir, we've done Pinot Noir or dry recently. Or champagne. Or champagne. Yeah, sparks and lines. Um but it is spring. You are going to Seattle soon. I am. It's your favorite type of weather.

SPEAKER_00 1:15

My favorite weather is the cloudy, gray, rainy days.

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So we decided we're gonna do an episode on what type of wine is good for a rainy, cloudy.

SPEAKER_03 1:26

Really, I just need to learn because I don't know.

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So, this is a challenge that I get frequently of people asking me, like, hey, I'm feeling kind of purple today. What wine should I drink? I'm feeling orange. Don't know. I don't know. So, what what do you feel on a rainy dish? What would compliment your feelings?

SPEAKER_03 1:43

When we were talking about this, I was like envisioning. We have the screened in porch. It's my favorite to like sit there, have a glass of wine, and listen to the rain. And I always default to play Enya while you're doing this. It feels like I would. No, I never play Enya. So it always feels like I would default to red wine. So I feel like you're gonna correct me, and I feel like you're gonna be.

SPEAKER_00 2:04

So red wine do you want like a little heavier or a little lighter?

SPEAKER_03 2:08

Well, here's my problem with spring, and maybe something that bothers you guys too is like it can either be 70 or 40. So when it's 40, I want red wine. Like a a Bridget red wine, a cold red wine. When it's 70, I could like I could venture out of my comfort zone a little, go for something a little more summery.

SPEAKER_01 2:25

So, okay, so some red wines.

SPEAKER_00 2:27

Is that too hard? I know.

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Do you want to feel sad or comfy or happy? What do you want to feel?

SPEAKER_03 2:33

I want to feel comfy.

SPEAKER_01 2:34

I want to feel sad with my wine.

SPEAKER_03 2:36

I want to feel comfy.

SPEAKER_01 2:38

Alright, so some red wine that's kind of medium to full body, that you feel comfy. Um, fresh, though.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

And fresh.

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Comfy and fresh.

SPEAKER_00 2:48

So it's like joggers. It's not sweatpants, it's like joggers. They're comfy but fresh. So this episode, we're talking about wine that's like joggers. So, okay, price point under 20 bucks? Yeah, under 20 bucks. Under 20 bucks. Because this is just like whatever day it rings. Could be Tuesday, it could be Saturday.

SPEAKER_01 3:03

Alright, so we're gonna break, we're gonna record this tomorrow. Um good luck. Yeah, so when you see this next, we'll take we'll do a little montage uh and I'll I'll pick out some wines and we'll see if I hit what Bridget is feeling. Fresh and comfy.

SPEAKER_00 3:18

See you soon.

SPEAKER_01 3:23

With Bridget's guidance in my head, I set out to pick wines from our wine section. I picked four wines I think fit, but we'll see what Bridget has to say. I made sure to stay away from Pinot Noir though, because we know Bridget does not like Pinot Noir. Let's head over to the studio and see how it goes. Alright, did you did you like that montage?

SPEAKER_03 3:45

Wasn't it fun?

SPEAKER_01 3:45

Was I so fast at getting on the wine? So, alright, I have four wines picked out that I think meet meet the wine for a rainy day thing. And I think with the rainy day, there's two ways you can go. One, you can kind of lean into it, kind of lean into uh, I think what the Irish call the sweet melancholy, you know? Oh, I love that because it's uh uh like Flannery O'Connor wrote about it a lot, where like sometimes it's fun to be a little depressed, and especially if you're living in Ireland where it's like wet and gray and rainy, but also green and beautiful, like lean into that beautiful melancholy. I love that. So two of those, two of the wine picks are like leaning into that, you know, comfort, depression, or I don't know what you want to call it. Just call it comfort. We'll call it comfort. And then the other approach is let's uplift our spirits, let's do something kind of light, and you know, like, oh, it's rainy outside, but I got this beautiful white line, you know, whatever. So two of them kind of lean into each of those that approach.

SPEAKER_03 4:43

I think the the other thing that's important to note is like spring rainy days could be 40 degrees, could be 70. They could be. You just don't know.

SPEAKER_01 4:51

And so you could have a tornado.

SPEAKER_03 4:52

We don't know. Oh, a good thunderstorm, nothing better.

SPEAKER_01 4:55

I agree. I like to sit, you know, out in the with the garage door open and watch it go.

SPEAKER_03 5:01

Watch it rolling. So, yeah, that's that's the other reason I think you can go other ways.

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So my four picks are the Battenhorse Secteurs Chen en Blanc from South Africa, um, this little James Basket Press, which is a nice kind of like Grenache thing from the Rhone Valley in France. Okay, a Zuccardi Cabernet Franc from Mendoza Argentina, and Albacea, which is a monastrell from Espana. Espania. So we got we got some four options here, Bridget. I'm confident one of these is gonna be good.

SPEAKER_03 5:32

Um I've had two of these wines previous, like in my life before, but under different different circumstances.

SPEAKER_02 5:40

In my life, I have tried these wines before, and I'm gonna sing. So uh this is I want to know what wine to drink. I'm gonna move on.

SPEAKER_01 5:52

It's raining out so hot. You guys need to let me pay that off.

SPEAKER_03 5:56

Nick is um thinking about a second career in a boy band. I'm gonna be an influencer singing. I'm gonna change. That's really what I wanted to say.

SPEAKER_01 6:03

But if you didn't listen to our previous dinner, yep, we talked about the confused. Okay, so this wine is the Battenhorst family wine. Their Sega Tours label, which is kind of a more everyday priced one than their higher priced things. Um, this is 100% Chen and Blanc and is sustainably farmed in South Africa. South Africa does great with Chin and Blanc. It's a grade that's originally from France, um, but got to South Africa to actually make dessert wine because it can yield a lot. So when you're making dessert wine, it works really well for that, deals well with the heat. And South Africa being on the trade routes, like all the ships had to do with the Suez can help me broke. Um, they sold dessert wine because it lasted on the ship voyages.

SPEAKER_02 6:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 6:42

So now Shannon Blanc makes a nice fruit forward, full-bodied but light, crisp, refreshing wine. It's kind of a weird thing.

SPEAKER_03 6:51

Okay. So at first I was like, what are you doing with my wine?

SPEAKER_01 6:57

So it's like full-bodied to stand up to the rain, but it's got some fruity flavors and it's refreshing.

SPEAKER_03 7:03

I think when we were talking about ideas, we were like, hey, man, I I was like, can you find a comfy, fresh, like a comfy, fresh wine? What did I call it? Comfy, refreshing?

SPEAKER_01 7:12

Like, think about when it's cold outside and you just put your comforter in your dryer with a fabric sheet in there. So it smells good. It's comfy, fresh, but warm and delicious.

SPEAKER_03 7:23

This is this is a great option because yeah, it I don't know how to describe it, which I say pretty much every episode. Um, it feels, yeah. I mean, I guess it's because it's full bodied white.

SPEAKER_01 7:32

It's a full-bodied white wine, but still got lots of acidity in it. So it's fresh still.

SPEAKER_03 7:37

There's like it's a good spring wine, which is when these rainstorms happen. And so this idea was built from like I sit on my I love sitting on my screen and porch, like under a blanket with a glass of wine listening to the rain. But like again, it could be freezing or not. Could be freezing or not. And I love, love, love, you know, a good cab. But going into the spring, it's like, okay, maybe I want to try something different. So it's a mmm.

SPEAKER_01 8:00

So we thought about doing a Chardonnay, but that can be like a little too over the top, you know, Samium Blanc is crisp. We thought it might be a little too light. Yeah. Um, didn't want to do anything sweet because that's you know, not really great. Yeah. Um, so yeah. So I thought Shenan Blanc, um, you could also maybe do uh like a roan variety kind of of you know, like a swine, period. It's great. And honestly, like if you ever see like a $12 Shen and Blanc from South Africa, it's probably good.

SPEAKER_03 8:30

Is that what this is? Yep. Oh what would you think?

SPEAKER_01 8:32

This one's like 14. Um, really? Any type of chicken? Oh, you guys. Um chicken, seafood. This is great with like lobster, shellfish, all types of things like that. Something's got a little bit of sweetness to it. Um, but yeah, chicken, if you do like a cream sauce, it's got enough body to stand up to the cream, but also enough acidity to kind of cut through it. So it works kind of a two-way. I'm on board with that wine, regardless. Period. Wow, I just blanked risotto. It would be really good with veggie risotto.

SPEAKER_03 8:59

Ooh, also discussed in our last interview during risotto.

SPEAKER_01 9:02

You know, you got the richness of the risotto, but also there's some cream, uh creaminess to go with the full-body wine and some acidity, so it works well. That's a good wine. Okay, cool. Okay, okay. So this that was sort of the like contrasting approach, you know, something white and light and fun. And this is gonna be the lightest of the red wines. This is the Little James Basket Press from He doesn't actually call it uh Soncom winery, uh, made by a French dude named Louis Beroult and his wife, whose name I don't know, so she's gonna go by Madame Barol. Uh but Louis is kind of a big deal in France. Uh Soncom makes some incredible wines. And this is his fun little side project, Little James Basket Breast. He does a white and a red. Okay. And this is actually kind of cool because it's a Solera. Oh, I was like, what kind of wine does it have? Do you know what a Solera is? No. So Solera is a perpetual uh yes, it is. It's a perpetual thing. So, like a lot of dessert wines are. So some of the wine, this doesn't have a vintage ear on it, it has a bottled ear, some of the wines from 15 years ago, some of the wines from two days ago. It just all mixes together. So it gives it this freshness but also complexity. It's a weird way of doing things. You see it more often in dessert wine. It's all from Grenache grapes. It worries me. So it's light, it's fruity, it's refreshing, but got a little bit of complexity because he does this solera method, which is really interesting and unique.

SPEAKER_03 10:22

I don't know how to judge light red wines because I don't like them. Like in general. Why don't I just have white wine then? Yeah. It tastes like a light red wine. So it I I don't I think.

SPEAKER_01 10:43

So it's got like a nice combination of like the bright red cherry on the noise. It does feel yes, so it's got some sour cherry. It does feel bright.

SPEAKER_03 10:50

But but that's what I'm saying. Like a little chill on it. I don't want that. So this was gonna be a question of mine. Like, should this wine be cold?

SPEAKER_01 10:56

Yeah, you know, like cellar temp 55, that helps with it a little bit. I could see that. So if you're out on your patio, your porch, screened in, you know, it's still got a little exposure to the outside. Maybe, maybe it goes, you know, chills. It's very dry.

SPEAKER_03 11:08

It is very dryer than I expected. It is.

unknown 11:11

Huh.

SPEAKER_03 11:12

I mean, it's a good choice. I if Vermont, I'm not gonna say what I want to say. I'm not gonna hate on Pinot Noir. It's not Pinot, no. Grenage's got a little bit more body to it. It does have um, yeah, it feels like more to me than Pinot, which is great because that's what I always hate on.

SPEAKER_01 11:27

I thought I maybe had one here. I thought the Solera method would get you on the lighter bodied render.

SPEAKER_03 11:31

I do think it's nice. I just don't know that I'm ever going to like that. Okay, well, we'll see. I well, I can see my bigger rainy day wine.

SPEAKER_01 11:38

So, you know, if you're looking for something that's red but light, um, a grenache wine, something from the south of the Rhone Valley in France. Um, Garnaccia in Espana, you'll see it called um things like that. Pinot Noir, obviously. Um Bridget, hey You know where this is ranking. Uh but yeah, so just look for a lighter bodied red. Uh, I think Bridget's advice on the little bit, cellar temp is a good one for this. I think that would help. That'll help.

SPEAKER_03 12:02

And and these next two, I imagine, are not supposed to be chilled. At least that's why.

SPEAKER_01 12:06

Cellar temp never gonna hurt anything, really. And if you don't like it, whoa. Oh, sorry, guys. Very tall bottle.

SPEAKER_03 12:11

I know. My I've been doing the same with my water bottle.

SPEAKER_01 12:14

So the first two were screw tops.

SPEAKER_03 12:17

Oh, tell me why again.

SPEAKER_01 12:19

I don't know, they just are. Everything really should be under screw top. Um that would make all of our lives easier. These next two are under cork, and I think that means you're gonna like them more.

SPEAKER_03 12:31

I mean, I I know I've had this last one, the summer.

SPEAKER_01 12:34

So cork is actually less expensive than screw top? I know, which is so funny. Um, but screw top protects wine better. You don't ever get cork taint. It's better for, you know. 12.

SPEAKER_03 12:44

Cork taint? Is that really what it's called? Like the pieces of the cork that fall into the wine? Nope.

SPEAKER_01 12:50

So cork taint is um an actual chemical uh thing that comes from that can grow on cork and it ruins wine. It just absolutely ruins wine. So it's a microbiological infection that if you ever have that like that musty cardboard smell, that's cork taint.

SPEAKER_03 13:09

Oh, I've definitely had wine with that.

SPEAKER_01 13:11

So you should send it back.

SPEAKER_03 13:13

Oh well, you know. I don't probably just dump it, which is terrible. So Okay. I've had this before and I wish I remembered under what context.

SPEAKER_01 13:23

Uh we had it at a tasting, at our Zuccardi tasting. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah. So this is the Zuccardi Q, Cabernet Franc. Thank you, Bridget. And I selected Cabernet Franc instead of Cabernet Sauvignon because um, you know, you're gonna want this is the big, heavy lean into the rain, that beautiful melancholy choice. Um, I thought Franc would be good because it oftentimes has kind of like graphite pencil shaving notes to it, which when you think of the rain on your concrete and you get that fresh rain smell and it's kind of that like salinity and things like that. That's nice. And those mineral concrete notes. Um, I thought like some of the aromatics in this franc would be a little nicer than the vegetable notes you get in Cabernet Sauvignon. Fun fact, did you know Cabernet Sauvignon is Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc getting together and having a kid? I believe it. That's that's why it is, that's why it's called Cabernet Sauvignon. Oh, come on. So it gets some of the fruit things and the body of Cabernet Franc, and then it gets the kind of green vegetable notes of Sauvignon Blanc.

SPEAKER_03 14:21

Yeah, which is interesting because I love Sauvignon Blanc. Well, that makes sense why I love that wine. But this to me has like a unique taste to it, like a unique flavor.

SPEAKER_01 14:34

So Cabernet Franc. Yeah, so Cabernet Franc is usually gonna have like big, bright red ripe berries to it up front. Okay. Have like graphite, more fine-grained tannin, so it's not gonna be quite as like big and bold. It's gonna be a little bit more kind of fine on the end.

SPEAKER_02 14:50

Yeah, I can't.

SPEAKER_01 14:51

A little bit more delicate on the end. And I definitely more aromatic. So I thought the aromatics would be kind of fun with. Yeah, it's like kind of that like kind of pencil shaven-y type of thing. Do people like that? Yeah. Pencil shaven? Well, I mean, you know, like do you like cigar box? Like that's like a flavor you'll find in, you know, like cedar and I don't. But people do. I'm sure. I mean, a lot of the cabernets you'd like, I'd say like it's got like an herbaceous note or like a kind of cedary note. There was one I had that straight up tasted like a cigar. And you're not going and licking out the you know, cedar hangers in your closet. Keep the moths away.

SPEAKER_03 15:33

I do have a cedar closet at home that I'm supposed to keep my furs in, I'm sure. And I hope Nick just spit his wine out. I don't have furs, you guys. We keep board games in it. And our vacuum. But anyway, when our house was built in the 60s, this car was probably a big deal. I remember, never mind. I've we're gonna get way off topic here. This wine, I gotta be honest, I thought I was gonna like more.

SPEAKER_01 16:03

Uh, that's all what I've got for you because it tastes like I can't believe you don't have furs. Like, you go thrifting all the time and you haven't picked up someone's furs on it.

SPEAKER_03 16:11

I mean, like, no, I could have had furs. My grandma had beautiful furs when she passed away. I have a fur, but I'm never gonna wear it. I guess it's hanging in that closet.

SPEAKER_01 16:19

Britney's probably screaming us right now about how terrible furs are.

SPEAKER_03 16:22

Brittany loves, like, I called Britney when we were looking at this house and was like, it has a cedar closet. Like, she had a cedar chest or like just I don't know, she cares for her blankets better than me, probably. Or I don't know, what are you supposed to put in there? Do they keep moths away or something? Yes, they keep moths away. I don't have a moth problem, okay?

SPEAKER_01 16:37

Anyway. So I thought this would be good because I thought the aromatics, I love, I thought you'd be someone that likes the, you know, there's just a weird taste that lingers.

SPEAKER_03 16:46

Yeah, I love the pavement story. Well, you know how I feel about tannins, bro. Ah I gotta be honest with you, really don't know about that one. Yeah, but it makes me like the other one much better. That little James Basket. Like, I will I will try that again. Although I think it's actually petite hummus, but so I've gotta tell you that this one, I'm already like um conditioned. I think I like this wine a lot, and so I hope I'm judging it fairly. I can't remember, like, I have a distinct feeling about this wine because we've had it before and I either hate it or love it. You have Stockholm syndrome with it?

SPEAKER_01 17:20

Yes, yes, I do. So this is the albacea, it is a monastrel, or as you would call it in France Mouved from Juan Hill, which is a big wine-producing conglomerate. They do a lot of really cool things, they always have fun labels like this. Um I remember it. Exactly. So this is a very rich, full-bodied, big bold wine. And this is if you want to lean into depression, this is the wine to do it with because you want to put on some evanescence and listen to that rain. There we go. There's there's the next one. What wine would you drink with Bon Jopy?

SPEAKER_03 17:57

What wine could you listen to while jamming out to Evanescence?

SPEAKER_01 18:01

Um, anyway, so this is like got these big jammy fruit flavors, uh, not a ton of tannin, just fresh juice that says on here I'm gonna like it. Soft, juicy tannins.

SPEAKER_03 18:13

And a long, elegant finish.

SPEAKER_01 18:16

Yeah, this is big, dark, bold, black fruit. What's juicy, though? Juicy and yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:21

I mean juicy tannin. Yeah. So this is if you want to lean into my palette's real screwed up because everything at the end is tasting a little like.

SPEAKER_01 18:30

Did you brush your teeth? Yes.

SPEAKER_03 18:32

With an electric toothbrush? No, real toothbrush. Like manual labor. Can I brush my teeth at the top? This does not taste weird on the end. It doesn't taste weird. It just tastes distinct. Oh.

unknown 18:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:44

But I mean, I like this. I like this. So I need to go find something else.

SPEAKER_03 18:47

Pretty jammy though. No, no, no. But you're gonna be surprised, I think, it might find out.

SPEAKER_01 18:50

Yeah, it is jammy. That's what I thought. Like, I thought, man, so my so my more theories were big full-bodied white wine with some tropical fruit flavors, good acidity, like lifts you up, fills you up. Light bodied red lifts you up. It's not too heavy for the the whole thing, makes you feel better. Cabernet Franc, which is a full-bodied red, uh, medium plus full body, and gets you some of those aromatics that match with what's happening on your concrete, your pavement, or the monastrell, which is just like a big furry bathrobe that you wrap yourself in. So, yeah, I'm on board with that. And you're you got your fire, you got your big smooth, rich cup of wine. I said cup, not glass. Your coffee mug of wine. Let's be honest, if you're out watching the rain, you probably got a cup of wine and just kind of says I like this. We love you too, Bridget.

SPEAKER_03 19:49

It's okay. You can love the rain. Okay, I need to do something.

SPEAKER_01 19:53

Do you want to do like a mix and match? Just can we just like put them all together? We're gonna do a little blending session. I used to do that.

SPEAKER_03 19:58

I need to try this one again. Because maybe I hated on it too early. Sorry, we're just really twist at the end. I know, but I didn't. I know to do that, I just didn't. We had a little leak and you know, if you did a little leak.

SPEAKER_01 20:16

It's okay. It's okay.

SPEAKER_03 20:19

Okay. Makes me appreciate that one much more. That's why I did that.

SPEAKER_01 20:23

Whoa!

SPEAKER_03 20:23

I know. Whoa! Okay, I've come to my final consensus. This was really surprising. I feel like do I say that also every time? I don't know. I knew.

SPEAKER_01 20:33

I thought for sure you'd go for the monastery.

SPEAKER_03 20:35

I did. I thought that this one was I thought that the other thing.

SPEAKER_01 20:38

Like, I thought this was a dumb, dumb exercise and like proving that bridge. I think like I must be getting sick or something. So I we talked about this earlier. So when Somaliers people do blind tasting tests, and this is something I like to do, if I'm going to a serious tasting, I drink alcohol early in the day. Yeah, I didn't. Um, like 10 o'clock in the morning is your palate's at its peak when you can perceive things the best, and then like one o'clock is the other optimum time, um, which is why if you go to Napa to do serious tastings, those are your appointment times. But so people will have like a wine, usually Chablis or a champagne, something like that, where it's produced the same every year, that you are so attuned to how that tastes, and you've had it so many times, you can calibrate against that.

SPEAKER_02 21:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:23

So if I'm gonna go do some fancy pants tasting, I honestly like to drink a Budweiser earlier in the day. I mean, I'll spit it out, but I like because it tastes the same every time. And you can notice what you're should have started the day with Josh, huh? You should have. Shoot. Come on, Bridget.

SPEAKER_03 21:39

Oh, sorry.

SPEAKER_01 21:40

Maybe, maybe, you know, like collective o coffee.

SPEAKER_03 21:43

I did have that.

SPEAKER_01 21:44

And what did what did you perceive differently today?

SPEAKER_03 21:47

I was so mad at how early my kids got up that I was just drinking.

SPEAKER_01 21:51

Well, maybe that's what screwed you up. All right, so wine for a rainy day.

SPEAKER_03 21:56

Okay, so this is gonna be easy because all I'm gonna do is switch one. The bottles and they're gonna be in the right order here. Oh, really? Yep. So I'm just gonna do this. No way. So this is surprising, Nick. I think it is. So and I'm I I am a listen, one and two are a little bit interchangeable to me depending on the temperature of the rainy day.

SPEAKER_01 22:15

So if it's a warm rainy day, you want the chen and blanc. If it's a cold rainy day, you want the light-bodied red. Yeah, isn't that surprising?

SPEAKER_03 22:22

And I think it's because like I love a big cozy red, but in the winter. So even if I'm cozied up on a rainy day, it's still spring. And so like if I'm like, oh, it's so cold, I still want to be cozy, so I will go for a red wine, but a lighter red wine. Like so this little James basket press, which I hated on when I first tasted it. But then yeah, these the um Zuccardi and the Elbacella like were big. What I did, I didn't like the I don't want to say dirty, the like dry pencil shaving of the zuccardi. Like I didn't like that. It didn't make me feel cozy. I like to go pull some Cabernet Sauvignon, right? I mean, come on. If there was cab, but but let's just say there was a cab, which is always my favorite wine. I think that the these two that are number one and two that could be so the Shannon Blanc and the Little James Basket Press, um are light enough, but still cozy, which is exactly what I asked for when we were discussing this. Was like, I don't know, light and cozy, fruity and cozy or something. Fruity and cozy, yep. Yeah. So so while these Zicardi and Alpsay are much more like usually Bridget wines, not not springtime, Bridget. No. Rainy day, Bridget is different.

SPEAKER_01 23:33

Do you not know rainy day, Bridget? Well, and the great thing about these two wines in particular is they're both well under $15. So you can go and afford yourself some furs.

SPEAKER_03 23:40

Oh, yes, I'm going to get my furs for my cedar closet.

SPEAKER_01 23:43

All right. So, question this month, this episode was uh what wine to drink on a rainy day? Yep. And I took the approach of you can either lean into the rainy day, uh especially in springtime, try and be, you know, big comfort wines, or you can do the like, hey, it's spring, summer's coming, have a light wine, something that lifts you up a little bit. And Bridget really thinks the light wines are to do it. So full-bodied white wine with some acidity, which would be a Chen and Blanc. Yeah. Um, other white Rhone Vritals, Roussin, Marson, Vignet are gonna be great picks too. Um, a light-bodied red wine like this Grenache from the Rhone Valley in France. Any Grenache from the Rhone is gonna work well, or south of France, Grenache in Spain, Pinot Noirs, Beaujolais, uh, would be kind of also in that category. Then we went into the lean into it, and those weren't big hits. No, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 24:36

It was the Zuccardi belongs at the end for me, okay? It just tastes, it was too earthy, too dirt, not dirty as in not clean, dirty as in the dirt. It's got some dirt things. And then I would say it was juicy and lovely, but like it felt it almost almost felt too much. Wow. Too much. I mean, it is a big full body. Oh, it is a big wine. It is, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:56

So if you're someone that wants to lean into your feelings, maybe not eat your feelings, but drink your feelings, go with a huge, big bodied red like a monastrel, maybe an old vine Zinfandel, maybe a really ripe mallback. Um, and then, you know, if you want to kind of do the matchy matchy experience, maybe you're someone that um has a really good sniffer, you like doing all the smells, you you're the one that goes to the candle store and uh the cabernet prong's got a lot of those aromas that you're gonna have on a rainy day, the kind of earthiness, the minerality of rain on cement. Try that out.

SPEAKER_03 25:32

You could drink your Shannon Blanc and just smell the actual rain outside as you're watching it.

SPEAKER_01 25:36

Either way, I mean, for myself personally, I'm gonna go with the Shenon Blanc.

SPEAKER_03 25:41

Yeah, that that was amazing because you picked. I mean, I drink white wine in the summer when it's 90 degrees because it tastes like juice. You know, and and I shouldn't say that. I don't drink like I don't drink this sweet. She puts it in a Capri Sun container. Just put it in my kids' juice box. I don't do that, everybody. That was a joke. Hey, cocktails to go are illegal in Wisconsin now, so it's fine. That's true. But this was a full this this was a white that reminded me that you don't have to have white only when it's 90 degrees outside. So I was appreciative of that.

SPEAKER_01 26:08

Well, awesome.

SPEAKER_03 26:09

That brought me back around, man, to liking whites. Yes. Okay, good job. So we've now got you all prepared for the month of April for the springtime, or anytime that it's raining, you now know what we would drink on a rainy day.

SPEAKER_01 26:22

Thanks for watching. We really appreciate you tuning in to this. If you like this episode, we do a weekly Dinner Plus Drinks where we talk about life. Kids always have a drink or two or three. Last week we had four. Did we? I don't even remember. Four different sour beers. Oh, so we always talk about that. Uh, a lot of fun. And you can go to dinnerplusdrinks.com to get the details on all these wines, plus some recommendations that are kind of maybe you can't find Lil James Basket Press, but give you some ideas on what to find.

SPEAKER_03 26:50

Yep, and you can find all of our past episodes of Pinkies Up in case you need advice on what to eat and drink together. We talk through a lot of things with that. Everything on dinnerplusdrinks.com.

SPEAKER_01 26:59

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SPEAKER_03 27:12

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