Inspired By BOORDY VINEYARDS, Hydes, Maryland Wines, By My Recent Phone Conversation With Owner Rob DeFord, With Susan Rayner's Visit To Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits To Taste Current Vintages Available To Purchase & Sell THis Past Week, July 2013 : ENJOY!

I WROTE this to Dave McIntyre a few minutes ago on his post here on Facebook and am now copying and pasting it here for you all. Cheers, Happy Monday morning, July 22nd, 2013 TONY  

 PS : I copied, pasted here this picture above from the BOORDY Vineyards' Facebook page : hope no one minds? Cheers.

I drank and enjoyed a bottle of red and a bottle of white BOORDY Vineyards, Hyde, MD - established 1945 - wine last night Dave, " a bottle of rose instead " went to Michel and so I cannot comment on that : but both the red blend and the off-dry white Vidal were delightful, even with the heat and humidity, a real treat for me. Drank the red , the 2011 South Mountain Red I drank with an Impotoyable glass that I got back in the late eighties and even chilled it was lovely, not as generous or as much fruit-forward as it was tasted with us on this past Wednesday with Susan Rayner of BOORDY. The 2011 Vidal Blanc was open and floral and delicately fragrant and with no edge and very pleasing to sip as we were before dinner. It had lessened perhaps in it's intensity but may have been even more enjoyable to sip as we were , also having been opened for us at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits this past Wednesday by Susan when she visited us to taste the two of us on current wines from BOORDY available. WE tasted only those that were made with Maryland-grown grapes. It was refreshing and a delight. Good to see Rob Deford and his son and wife, Susan and Lucie Morton are all on such a fine track these days. Cheers, can't wait for your " big news for ‪#‎mdwine‬ " ... Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn 7/22/13

I'm having so much fun copying and pasting and making my life so much easier these days. I know that the result is a little bit like a frantic, erratic, zagged and mixed tapestry but I think it's more spontaneous, too. Hope you do not mind.

I do want to include some more information here for you all to read and ponder and hopefully enjoy.

Michel Dumas and I also tasted the 1) Chardonnay,  the  2) Seyval Blanc and the  3) dry rose.

 On this tasting our favorite for now and this horribly hot weather was the dry rose. It had it all : brightness, freshness, easy to drink with or without a meal. 

The 2011 Chardonnay coming from a difficult vintage had something in the finish that I did not like so well. It had some oak that grew stronger with the wine being open in the bottle. By the time I got it home and drank some the next day with my wife that likes white wines it was a bit too strong in oak for me, or just at that edge for me.

The Seyval Blanc was quite nice but it's about to be done for this vintage so we will have to see what the next batch which will be from fruit added from Pennsylvania will be like? More on that later.

The wines are solid and well-balanced and getting stronger and stronger as the new vines mature. With Lucie Morton's help Rob DeFord uprooted now for a third time his vines and is starting fresh all over again. I like that spirit. What Susan said was that when Rob told Lucie his initial response to planting " new " vines he said : " absolutely not ", that Lucie responded : " well then I guess you do not need my help ".  The rest is history and now it just is a matter of waiting to see " what we can see " , that's what I just added here.

OHHH, Lucie Morton also said , according to Susan Rayner that, plant the right vines and BOORDY VINEYARDS can make the best wine in Maryland. I like that. As I said, time will tell and I am pulling for you Rob and you Lucie! Cheers, you have my vote.

I can't wait to see you Rob again after so many years. I can't wait to have you come to our store and do another wine-tasting for us since your last one was in 1985 or 1986 I believe when I managed Burka's Fine Wines?