It's a start

Over the past year or so, M and I have made it our unofficial goal to try wines from the many, many wineries here in Illinois. You wouldn't think that Illinois is "wine country" in comparison to Napa Valley, but you'd be surprised at the number of small wineries producing all kinds of tasty, complex, and sometimes downright odd wines. We've visited a lot of the wineries in Northern Illinois and collected bottles from all over the state, but we'll be discussing wines from elsewhere in the Midwest, as well as wines from other regions of the U.S. and the world.

The other day we were looking at the several cases of wine in our kitchen and thought that we should do something with them besides just drink them, and the idea for this blog was born. Why not write down something about the wines we've tried? Are they good, or just mediocre? If we visited the winery, what was it like? If anything, we can always use this blog to store information so that we don't buy the same bottle twice--especially if we didn't like it the first time. So this blog will be all about What We've Drunk, be it from that local place we drove past last month to the bottle of cabernet from France we picked up at Trader Joe's. (Hey, wine doesn't have to be expensive to be good!) We'll try to include pictures and links, and hopefully there will be some interesting -- if not actually useful -- suggestions here.