Free wine tasting Wednesday at Peppers

We arrived around 7:30p.m., Eliud Hernandez (a guitar player that sings at Pepper’s every day at 6p.m., who has an amazing voice) was jamming out to his guitar, and singing one of the best versions I have ever heard of Hotel California , by the Eagles… and continued by playing a song by the Beatles. GREAT MUSIC, to say the least.

Our waitress (Summer) then took our beverage order and gave us suggestions for the appetizer, we had fried calamari. It was amazing, it came with this sweet sauce that you dipped your calamari in.

While our appetizer came, the bar manager Bert Villalon came to our table and gave us this little tray of prosciutto, cheese and strawberries... Here are two pictures of how it looked like.

Here is a close up of our bottle & glasses of wine.

Bert than told us just about everything there was to know about the wine, where it came from, how it was made, the year, how long it took for the crop to mature, he even told us the name of the family that owns the wine and how that company is a family operated business, you can tell he knew his wine.. he was a walking wine encyclopedia.. mind you, we got to taste 2 different wines.. and after that we cut ourselves off. The first glass of wine that we tried had 14% alcohol so we cut off with the 2nd.

Let me tell you more about the wine there at Peppers, before I go about my meal. They have this amazing dessert wine named Inniskillin, it is a riesling wine from Canada, and they have a wine club, it's $25 to join but you get a $25 gift card AND 20% off your wine. How great is that? Oh! and on Saturdays, all of the wine is 50% off, but you won't be able to use your Wine Club discount there, or it would be as if you were stealing it.. j/k

So my food came in.. I had the Caprese which is basically a tower of fresh sliced beefsteak tomatoes with mozzarella in between each slice.. sitting on a bed of olive oil and balsamic reduction... and this is a picture of my food. (I also had the soup of the day which was broccoli and cheese, but I forgot to take a picture)

The food is just as delicious as it is pretty, the presentation is amazing, and the taste of EVERYTHING that you have is fresh. The environment is relaxing and I was blown away by the customer service.

(left to right) Shawn Parker, Chris Lash, Jon Bennet & Bert Villalon

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)