Wine Cocktails

I know, I know… New Years Eve is all about the Champagne…. and Champagne Rory would be the first to tell me that…

But There is something about a Kir that makes me nostalgic, which makes it appropriate on the last day of the year.

Kir is a cocktail made of dry white wine and Crème de cassis, a thicky syrupy liqueur made from black currants most often made in Burgundy.

It makes me nostalgic because it reminds me of my first trip to France, when I was 15. We were at our hotel in Paris and had been on a busy all day long touring various sites when two elderly ladies who had joined our tour asked my room mate and I if we wanted to join them for drinks before dinner. This girl, who’s name I don’t remember, and I thought it was lovely that these ladies screwed up their courage and finally went to Paris as they had always wanted. OK, they went with a bunch of high school kids, but frankly, I think that it gave them a different perspective on the trip. After all, we played frisbee in the Amphitheater in Nimes… How many times do you see that?

Well anyway, I think the ladies appreciated that we didn’t treat them like three headed space aliens. And so we met them….

and we drank Kir.

And so did I last night….

Happy New Year!

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