Great French wine from Southeastern, WI...

Before continuing the prior entry, I'd like to give some props to Cedarburg, Wisconsin's quaint winery on the river--Cedar Creek Winery. I toured their facility, after dining on crab meat pasta salad and fancy bittersweet chocolates along the 'Burg's fancy little strip, and tasted all of their white, red and desert offerings with Meg (all of this undertaken after feeding baby goats at The Family Farm, of course). Although a few of the whites were a miss, their chardonnay, cab and syrah stood tall. The 2 year old Port was tasty, as well. We ended up taking home bottles of the chardonnay and syrah, to which the Brit-accented cashier remarked that we had an apparent taste for the "expensive" stuff. It's nice to know that you can get a great bottle of French-crafted wine for under $20.00 in this state!

Check out their winery if you're up for a great day trip <30 minutes North of the city. Pair up their chard with a big broiled hunk of lemon-butter sockeye salmon like we did for the most brollick of meals.