Festivity drink: Termes Tinta de Toro.

I celebrated 4th July in the United States once. I did a terrific supper, which had alone in dim lighted room.  It was a chicken on olive oil with pasta and vegetables if I’m right about all. Before of that I was on terrible job, which had a place despite it was Saturday.
I was in a little town and was delivering ice. One place was closed and Romanian partner correctly said that normal people don’t work in this day. Repercussion of festivity I saw one time in sitting on passenger’s seat. Delighted people were returning from somewhere where was celebration and one of them hold a small American flag. They crossed a road in front of the truck. I was close, but was far. 

I couldn’t like that job. It had infirm in organizing boss spoke on awful accent who stereotypically reasoned that I don’t know English. I had then in thoughts that whole summer will spent there.  Visit of the United States was my constant dream in which I wanted to come and live in future. I didn’t want to have months in oppression place. That jokingly calling boss was driving on Ford Escape. The last word attached to my mind and I was repeating this wish. And I did it. I had a great time after that. 

And had it few months ago. I recalled an e-mail of this icy boss and wrote to him everything I didn’t say then. 

Now to present time. I wanted an American wine for American festivity. I didn’t find it anywhere. I would like a bottle of among of favorite grapes, which is Zinfandel in about the United States. Ex-mafiosi of Colombo family Michael Franzese who is captivating teller as he was on restaurants in New York, which I would like to visit, in one time he expressed an acclaim to wine calls Robert Biale Black Chicken Zinfandel. I never accept opinions while I interested to taste this bottle. And, let to be honest, an Italian (doesn’t mean that he’s American.) and mafiosi in past must understand in great wine and food. But it was impossible to get Black Chicken in my circumstance. Searching was in Internet where I found out that it’s kind of wine, which don’t leave the United States. Some shops had a worldwide delivery, but there were to the Europe. I had one web-store, which could sent it, but money weren’t with me. I decided that it will for another time. And this day and this drink I will use there – on freedom.
I had a bottle of red Termes Tinta de Toro harvested in 2016. A Spanish wine fully made on tinta de toro grape (that’s sort appeared in II century BC and survives winter and stayed aphid attack in the middle of XIX century, which devastated many French vineyards.). It matched for chosen American dish. 

American cuisine isn’t graceful by burgers and other large fat dishes, but I could to find for festivity a receipt of chicken’s wings, which I corrected on shanks. I don’t like to have a little of meat. Initially, I thought that honey will sweet a dish what I wouldn’t like. I was thinking it before when I decided then to cook steak again where also required a honey where instead of it I projected to use soy sauce and cover meat in mustard. I understood after all that it would be unrightfully to deny to experiments. However, I changed a blossom orange honey on dark honey and white vinegar on balsamic vinegar what wasn’t because I had laziness to go in shop. I reasoned that origin components for white wine. I mixed chosen ingredients in one pot with paprika, pepper and salt, soaked shanks and put into fridge for four hours.  I returned with a bottle having 15% where before I tried to remember if I ever had a drink with this degree and solved that I had, but I don’t remember it. Just an alcoholic thing.  Termes Tinta de Toro was put into the fridge and was getting right temperature while ten minutes for every side of shanks in oven.  Before I took away chicken, I boiled the sauce. Then I brushed shanks in sauce, put them on coals and cooked till chicken became edible. It was interesting to eat and soak into sauce, but it wasn’t perfect as to wine, which as would about marriage on it – I wouldn’t do it. It’s robust in using while it doesn’t clingy if it keeps cold, because I found out that bottle better always keep in this condition. This wine in warm condition doesn’t pleasure rinse in a mouth in long holding.
It was a long drinking, which continued in watching of Formula One (despite in sobering I actually don’t like it due to happened turning to business and corruption.), which isn’t interesting as it was decades ago. This quote gives to Juan Manuel Fangio, but I’m not about that it was him while it’s correct phrase that winning in time of racer on 80% percent depended on racer and 20% on a car while it’s vice versa in nowadays. Indeed, a good car for any well-driving man gives him a leading position. Juan Manuel Fangio won five times, but every time it was on a different machine.
As I said, it was a long drinking and I used a bottle names 2019 Eagle Creek Zinfandel, which tragically has a screw cap. A perfection was disturbed in this little thing. I never find an ideal in Spanish wine while that Eagle Creek would be better with a cork. Spanish wine has magnificence in flavor when American wine, which actually bottled in Sweden what mostly disappoints despite smells as water when I had a fine experience here. I don’t like that somewhere winery commercialized and goes cheap. It’s currently balanced in quality and I had a magnificent aftertaste after two wines, but I don’t want of going to dark future.

I was glad to rid from a car when I approached to Edinburgh, but I was full energized that I did this Scotland trip and I was in exciting enthusiasm to do it through the United States. I would like to make this journey on an American muscle car from the sixties. It willn’t riding by highways from point A to point B. It will a zigzag journey, which in my supposition will take months. I really would like it. I still need to wait for getting opportunity as it even closed on Schengen visa what I definitely want now. I have places and reasons in the Europe, which I desire to come.  I have a free entrance to Serbia, Albania and Montenegro, which all of them in my interest in common journey through the Eastern Europe, but I think that, maybe, I must visit Montenegro in the next half of July.