Wineaux U

Owner and Winemaker Trey Busch from Sleight of Hand was the star of the night on March 20th. The setting was Chester Valley Country Club and our host was Jonathan. Trey and Jonathan along with wine contributions from the Mark Ryan Winery made the evening a huge success. Oh, and did I mention the food. Outrageous and never ending! Desert wine was supplied by none other than our own Wine Pope Healy. The amazing thing was Trey made his way from Washington State just for us. And this was his second time! God we must be fun...or is Washington state a little on the quiet side? Who knows. We are lucky to have him. The other cool thing is we had just shy of 30 guys attend this tasting. Some new blood got introduced to the WineauxU way. Now I keep getting calls from them asking if they can be a WineauxU member. No f____ing way! We are exclusive and ultra-snobby. But, if we need someone to help defray our costs, maybe we will let one of the leeches partake.

Here was the line up of wines. Hopefully correctly listed in the order we drank them.

1. Viognier 2007 (Mark Ryan)

2. Enchantress Chardonay (Sleight of Hand) Just out of the barrel and not even labeled, yet.

3. Syrah 2005 Columbia Valley (Dunham Cellars)

4. Trust Syrah 2006 (Trust Cellars)

5. 2006 Syrah Walla Walla Columbia Valley (Va Piano Vineyards)

6. Syrah 2006 Walla Walla Valley( Syzygy)

7. Levitation Syrah 2007 (Sleight of Hand)

8. Cayuse ????

9. Ruckus Syrah 2006 (Sparkman Cellars)

10. Long Haul (or Crazy Mary Mourvedre) 2007 (Mark Ryan)

11. Archimage NV (Seight of Hand)

Then there was course after course of endless wonderful food that paired superbly with the wines listed above. Thanks goes to my friend Andy Logan for keeping the order of wines straight in his notes. It wasn't easy not having The Pope's tasting sheets. I was going to use Hank's notes because I saw him writing frantically all night long but he informed me that he thought his notes was another course of food and ate them. What a savage!