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The Joys of The Grape & The Grain: Tonight's Tipple

Paid a visit (in the darkening evening) to a local store (which also serves as an off licence, and which has stocked a great many excellent beers on my recommendation) to replenish my beer supply.

Thus, I am awaiting delivery of several beers, a variety of beers mostly from the legendary German brewery, Weihenstephaner.
 
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A glass of white wine from Burgundy is keeping me company this Sunday evening.
 
Sipping a glass of Viognier, an elegant white wine from the Pays d'Oc, in southern France.
 
Sipping a glass of Chablis, (actually, a Chablis 1er Cru), an elegant white wine from Burgundy, in France, a wine made exclusively from the Chardonnay grape.
 
Ordered some beers, (a selection from Weihenstephaner, in Bavaria, Germany, and some from Trappistes Rochefort, and St Bernardus, both legendary breweries from Belgium) from a local store (the proprietor and I are friends) and had them delivered to me today.
 
Earlier tonight, I was debating the dilemma of whether I should sip, savour, sample, the Grape or the Grain.

The Grain won.

I am currently sipping a glass of Original Helles beer from Weihenstephaner.

And adjacent to my right hand, there is a bowl of crisps (chips, to our Transatlantic Cousins).

I suspect that it may be a long night.
 
A glass of Chablis (a glorious white wine from the Burgundy region of France), is keeping me company this evening.
 
A couple of French wines kept me company over the week-end:

An excellent Riesling from Alsace, in eastern France - and while I am perfectly aware that some other countries (Austria, Germany, even New Zealand) produce some perfectly good, sometimes, even excellent, Riesling - I find that I have come to prefer the Rieslings from Alsace.

The other wine I enjoyed - thoroughly enjoyed - was a Chablis 1er Cru (made from Chardonnay) from Burgundy, in France.

In recent years, I have become exceedingly partial to fine wines from Burgundy.
 
Sipping a rather nice and elegant wine, - a local Chardonnay - a wine I purchased from the vineyard where it was grown, harvested and bottled.
 
A sole, single, solitary Belgian beer (St Bernardus Pater 6) was greatly enjoyed with dinner (a Belgian dish, written about in the dinner thread) this evening, and I am just about finishing it, as I write.
 
Sipping (and savouring) a Westmalle dubbel, an excellent interpretation of the classic Belgian Trappist tradition.
 
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