Friday at Five: Our Daily Red

You'll note as the Daily Photo I've put a bottle of wine. You never see that, do you? But this time it's the Friday at Five drink because a simple glass of wine, one of my favorite, inexpensive bottles, seemed a perfect fall evening drink.

Although there are hot ciders and brandies (ooh yes, ideas!), cocktails seem more suited for the warm months: frozen drinks, summertime hard lemonades, SHOTS OF ANYTHING BECAUSE HEY SPRING FEVER! Warm red wine is so fireside and then spilling on your sister's comforter in college and I STILL don't think she's over that.

Anyway. This wine. Several months ago I read a book called Skinny Bitch, and, much to Bud (and everyone else's) chagrin, it changed the way I look at food. Specifically meat, but that's a story for another day or never. In the book alcohol is frowned upon - that was the only time during reading I seriously wondered what ever happened to book burning - except for red wine. Specifically organic, sulfite free red wine. Was even maybe a little GOOD for you. And so, like the chapter on dark chocolate, I took this portion VERY SERIOUSLY. Well, by God, if I have to drink red wine I will.

A few days later I traipsed to Yuppie Mart Mecca Whole Foods and searched through their eco-friendly wine labels which is where I found Our Daily Red. I won't lie, it's $10 price was a large part of the pull but I also found it easy to drink (you know, because usually it's so HARD to drink) and tasty. Plus the best part of sulfite free wine is the lack of hangover or headache the next day.

I'm all kinds of healthy lately, what with the shoveling dark chocolate in my face to the over-consumption of feel good wine. And yes, the two go together so well.

Comments

[Sarah S.]

ooooooo I just LOVE Our Daily Red. It's the best. I, no lie, harassed two girls in Publix about it when they were looking for wine. I got all up their business and told them they needed to buy it. They probably thought I was being paid to stand there and suggest it!