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2009 California Pinot Grigio

Well, I finally cracked open this bottle of wine.  It's...Well, I mean, it had special meaning to me for years.  I've packed it away, and re-found it over and over again over the years.  Surprisingly it's actually drinkable.  It's a little bit muted on the flavor, and there's a very TINY hint of vinegar happening, but we're talking, barely much at all.  I feel like another couple years and it would have been destined for the drain.  Actually, I just took another sip and I take back the vinegar part.  It's fine.  It's just not very flavorful.  It's just like, toned down really.  But, actually, it's pretty good, now that I'm about a glass in.

So, the backstory is, I bought this bottle of wine in 2011 for this girl that I met in 2010.  Well, technically we first began talking to one another at the VERY tail end of 2009 on this dating site.  She was editing photos.  I was on my winter break from work.

Our first message... It was basically...

Me: Hey what's up?

Her: Hey... What are you doing?

Me: Working on music.  What about you?

Her: Editing photos...

And then we just talked on and off for a few months before finally meeting up.

We then met in person in March of 2010.  Stuff happened.... and what not...

Then we went separate ways in like, November of 2010.  But, I couldn't get her off my mind... Truth is, I still can't.  She's still very much so on my mind a good amount of the time.

Anyways, I bought her this bottle of wine for her Birthday on February 2nd of 2011.  I sent her a little email about it... a few days before hand, or maybe it was a text.  I feel like it was a text message...

Anyways, I never ended up getting the chance to give it to her, that year, or any of the years since.

Fast forward.... She moved away... And then eventually met a guy... and then I was like... blah, ewwww.

And now I'm just like... Eh... well, oh well.  Hey, if she's happy, what should I care.  You know?

SO, here I am drinking it on her birthday.  I'm guessing she's having some kind of birthday dinner, maybe just finishing up.  With friends... Family... Maybe that lover she met... Maybe an entirely new lover... Maybe there's no lover anymore... Maybe she's engaged or married.  Maybe she's single again.  I have no idea.  I couldn't stand to still keep tabs on her once she met someone.  It just made my stomach queasy.

Maybe she's just at home and not out with anyone.  Maybe she's... Anyways, who knows.

SO, here I am sitting drinking some wine and about to eat dinner of my own and watch some Netflix.

Never have I met someone who so much influenced me.  I mean... So hey at least there's that.

Sometimes you cross paths with people and it works... Sometimes you cross paths and become friends... And sometimes you cross paths and... then you end up drinking a bottle of wine you bought for them 6 years earlier that you never got the chance to give them.

Life is like that.  Life just kind of happens.  And then there's wine that you thought might have gone bad, but it turns out it was still good.  This bottle of 2009 Pinot Grigio from a winery in California.

So, cheers and Happy Birthday wherever you are tonight.