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Javier Bardem
Guess who I'm hanging out with?
There was one meadery we went to, and I forget the name. Everything I tried was phenolic, but I think their sweet stuff was ok from the other reviews. I wasn't a fan of anything at all, even though I tried to like it.
Right next to the "Redneck Wines" place we avoided?
All the meads were uber-sweet. On the good side, the fruit meads all tasted strongly of the underlying fruit, even some fairly delicate fruits like pear. Tasted like real fruit, fresh fruit, and a lot of it - just really sweet, and the straight meads were pretty bad. Stressed yeast, perhaps? Not enough nutrients?
We bought a bottle of the cherry mead specifically to eat at dessert with a cheesecake. Otherwise, I can't see myself ever drinking those meads, they were just too much.
How much land? I don't think I could stand living next to BH, but the_Wife and I have talked about the possibility of eventually buying a few acres. Would probably want to be a little further away from her mom, though!
We *deliberately* avoided the Drunkfest. ****, Paulie didn't even want to drive through Watkins Glen!
We'll have to do another, larger get-together at some point. And, I haven't made it to Two Goats yet, we were supposed to go there with a couple of the young winemakers last year but it didn't quite work out. The beer good there?
Probably not at this point. We were thinking (somewhat serious, somewhat half-hearted) about using some of the $$ we got from selling our old house and putting it into Finger Lakes land, but we really would need to be further away from the MIL. Sounds like your land is a couple miles (at most) from her, she bought a place a year or so back up a little further north, a couple miles north of Dr. Frank's. But, we'd have to be elsewhere, probably nearer to Seneca, more for my wife's sanity than my own.
We're also finding that we are probably going to be putting a little bit more of those savings on the new house than we were anticipating, so it's best to keep it in savings for now (and I'm not looking to take on any more debt).
I'm curious, though, just to wonder what kind of $$/acre that vineyard-grade farmland is going for out there. So, I'd love to see the listing, even if I'm not (today, at least) a serious buyer.
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