Last night was pizza night chez nous. Because our tastes run to NYC-style pizza, a style which is completely unavailable here in flyover country, I have spent the past 4-5 years developing the best home-cooked pizzas I can. What this means is a cold-fermented dough for me and a gluten-free cold-fermented dough for my wife Jean. I am not so OCD as to have jerry-rigged the cleaning cycle of our electric oven but instead cook them at 550 F on a baking stone.
Our choice of pizza wine with this meal was the 2022 Mind Left Body Mourvedre from Hardy Wallace's Extradimensional Wine Company Yeah!, a blend of 75% Evangelho Mourvedre, 15% Del Barba Carignane and 10% skin-fermented Chardonnay. When we first tasted this in the tasting room when on sabbatical last Spring it rocked our world. Now, 10 months later, it is still the fantastic red-fruited, medium-bodied super-quaffable wine that it has always been. Although Jean has been trying to limit her work-week consumption, a nod to our advancing age, this wine proves too attractive for moderation. Together with a new episode of Apple TV's Prime Target, it made for a welcome relief from the madness that has engulfed our professional lives.
