It's my first day in Nashville, still unaware of the blizzard of 2008 that would have our flights to Cleveland canceled for two day. It was bad enough getting here are our flight to Nashville at 6 AM this Wednesday morning was canceled as was the 7:30 and the 9 AM. We finally got a flight, not to Nashville but to Midway in Chicago at 9:30 AM but parked on the tarmac for two hours to de-ice. A two hour layover in Chicago and finally we made it to Nashville. Normally a one hour flight, that day it took 13 hours!
I was anxious to get to Nashville because my son, Mark, was in town. He was leaving for a weekend of shows with Brian Stace in Oklahoma ad were going to have lunch before they hopped on the tour bus and headed for Tulsa. Brian and Mark picked us up at the airport and we had a chance to have a few drinks and get a great dinner offer.
You buy dinner and I'll buy the wine, was my response to an old friend also in town! We made our way to a little restaurant called Sole Mio, The food was great and we had a chance to drink one of my favorites, the 2003 Tommasi Amarone Della Volpolicella Classico (see my review on corkd)
This wonderful amarone from Veneto is a blend of three grape varieties, Corvina Veronese, Rondenella, and Molinara. I rated this gem 92 points. How can you beat that, a wonderful free meal, a great wine, and an opportunity to see my son. Well worth the 13 hour trip!
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