Next month I am getting married in Boothbay Harbor. To date, this is our wedding menu and the wines we have selected and purchased so far; Garlic herb pasta, with sauteed scallops and sauteed vegetables, Beef Wellinton station (sliced to order), Stuffed mushrooms, stuffed cherry tomatoes, stuffed herb cucumber slices Assorted small quiche, Cheese and crackers, veggie and dip, fresh fruit, cider cheese apple & liver pate pear, Sliced French bread with smoked salmon and fresh basil salsa Sliced French bread with a mushroom herb pate Chicken puffs and crab puffs 1999 Lydia Vernaccia di S. Gimignano Melini 1999 La Male Terre Bourgogne-Chardonnay-Jaboulet-Vercherre 2000 Salice Salentino Rosso Vendemmia (2 whites, one Italian and one French; 1 red Italian) This is where I seek opinions, for I have an opportunity to buy cases of the following wines, at very reasonable prices, and hope that some of the 'cyber wine drinkers' can rate these wines for me; 1) Calif. wines a) Beringer-White Merlot '99 b) Coastal Vintners/Eagle Creek-Chard.'00 c) Mont Pellier-Chard.'99 d) Rabit Ridge/Sonoma-Mistique '97 (Is this a red or white wine?) 2) Australian a) Stonehaven Reserve Wines/Padthaway-Chard.'97 3) Portuguese a) Casa Da Vila Verde/Vinho Verde D.O.C.'99 4) Spain a) Coto de Imaz Rioja Grand Reserva D.O.C.'91 5) German a) Madonna/Hevl zu Herrenshein-Baron von Heyl Q.B.A. '98 6) French a)Graves/Chateau Doms-White Bordeaux '98 b) Cotes du Rhone/Chateau du Trignon Cuvee Celestine '99 7) Italian a) Le Coste Bianche from the Piedmont region-Chard.'99 b) Ca'Domini from the Veneto region-Chard.'99 Please share your experience(s). ATR
