Olympic Cellars, Cabernet Sauvignon 2007

EASTER 2010

The Olympic Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon 2007, we could just call this the Easter wine, the Easter 2010 bottle. My dad opened this bottle as we sat down to Easter Brunch around the same dining room table that we share all of our big family holiday meals. Most of these meals share the cherry wood space with a bottle or two or three of various wines. My mom and I may start out with a chilled white and move to a red. The men may start with beer, moving to wine only to end with bourbon or whiskey. But on this particular Easter of 2010, we opened the bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon after a church service and egg hunting to enjoy with our usual Easter fare: ham with pierogies and onions. The table was full of many other items, whole baked sweet potatoes, asparagus, spaghetti squash and a cherry cheesecake pie, but ham and the homemade pierogies from Pittsburgh are a “must have”.

After having only one glass at the Easter meal, I couldn’t let the remaining bottle go to waste! Heavens no! The cab went so well hours earlier with hot out-of-the-oven ham that I just had to see how it could possible taste with leftover, cold ham. Well, I am happy to report that the ham and the wine paired splendidly in the evening air on the back patio. It also went quite well with the chocolate truffle egg that was given to us by some neighbors with a loaf of Paska (freshly blessed)…so well that the bottle was empty by sunset.