Dinner- Blacksburg Moving Date

Nothing is better than a home cooked meal after a long day of moving. The only thing that can make this better is some wine. Oh wait, that's exactly what I did tonight. After doing the whole moving across Blacksburg thing, I went to Kroger to get some chicken, corn, ice cream and 3 bottles of wine. Today I did all of the cooking and cleaning since my girl friend was so kind with helping me move. Our first potion of the night ( I wont call it an appetizer because we had some bad timing of cooking) Some nice corn on the cob. Nothing screams summer more than corn on the cob.  

We had chardonnay by Bay Bridge with this corn. We spent way to much money on this bottle considering it tasted awful. We payed a whopping $3 for this. I didn't expect much to begin with, but this was just terrible. It was very bland, just no complexity at all. It was very acidic and the after taste lingered. I couldn't finish my glass I disliked it that much. What are you going to do though, I spent $3 on it. 

Now on to the chicken. I love to grill so this got me excited. I cooked perfect chicken, taken off the grill at around 155* and wrapped in foil so it would continue to cook and settle to 165*. It makes the chicken so moist and delicious. We got some nice Crane Lake Sangiovese to compliment the chicken. We want to splurge on the wine for dinner, so we spent $5 on this one. When I first poured it, I was shocked with how light the color was. The best way to describe it was a translucent red. I wish I got a picture of it. I forgot to take the napkins out of the glasses, oops. When I first smelled it, I immediately got the smell of berries and fruit, cherry stood out to me the most. I really enjoyed this wine. It was very full and flavorful. Very good purchase for $5. 

On to my favorite part of the meal. Dessert, which is ice cream. My girl friend and I always do personal Ben & Jerry's flavors that way we don't have to get a big tub of a single flavor. I always like trying new flavors and saw cherry garcia so I went ahead and got that one for my flavor and of course my girl friend got chocolate chip cookie dough. The wine we went ahead and bought was a Cabernet Sauvignon from Bay Bridge. Paid $3 for it which was well worth it. This is one of my favorite types of wine so far. I loved the color, it wasn't too dark nor too light(not that color matters really). It had a really nice fruity smel to it and exploded with flavor as soon as I tasted it. It was very full and had berry/cherry taste to it. It was very well with the ice cream surprisingly.  Will definitely try this again because I enjoyed it so much. I hope you enjoyed hearing about my dinner!