\u201cI don\u2019t trust them Claudette,\u201d Didier whispered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCaptain Jack seems unfriendly and his friend Stephen is strange. Is he English, Irish, Spanish or what? I am afraid they will sell us out. The only good omen is that the boat name is French.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am so glad we picked up our Complant allocation from your cousin in Dover. That was brilliant, cherie.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere are two things we cannot survive without great wine, Didier, my love – a world war and a pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n At that moment, they heard the thrum of engines and the guttural sounds of German. As they ran on deck, the night was pierced by a high-powered spotlight. They were shocked to see Captain Jack run from the deck house, long blond hair blowing in the wind, jump to the deck gun and shoot out the light in one deft motion. The fog enveloped them as they drifted, silent and dark, into the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hours later as they huddled in the deck house with Jack and Stephen, waiting for their rendezvous on the Normandy coast, Didier realized that he had harshly judged these rugged men. \u201cA glass of wine with you, sir,\u201d he said to Jack as he poured 2018 Complant Beller Vineyards Mt. Veeder Cabernet Sauvignon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhy, old man, this wine is delicious,\u201d enthused Jack. \u201cIt has a dark garnet color and is almost opaque. On the nose, it displays heady aromas of cassis, tart cherry, sandalwood and hints of fresh bay leaves and pine resin. On the palate, it has a fruit sweet entry and is mouth-coating and full on the mid-palate without being hot or heavy, with echoes of black fruit and herbs. It is ethereal and somehow concentrated at the same time and this sense carries through on the long, vibrant finish.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI have visited California, but I never thought it would produce wines like this,\u201d said Stephen, \u201cIt\u2019s almost as if it came from the unknown future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n At 3 am they heard the yell, \u201cAHOY LE NAVIRE!<\/em>\u201d and Didier and Claudette saw their friends Emile and Jules in the small boat tying up alongside. After the arms and the remaining wine were loaded and they were slowly moving away, Didier and Claudette turned to wave, but the Surpendre <\/em>had already disappeared into the fog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHold me, Didier,\u201d cooed Claudette. \u201cIt is good to be alive, n\u2019est pas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOui, cherie, it is indeed good to be alive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cI don\u2019t trust them Claudette,\u201d Didier whispered. \u201cCaptain Jack seems unfriendly and his friend Stephen is strange. Is he English, Irish, Spanish or what? I am afraid they will sell us out. The only good omen is that the boat name is French.\u201d \u201cI am so glad we picked up our Complant allocation from your cousin in Dover. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/complantwine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/complantwine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/complantwine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complantwine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complantwine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/complantwine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"https:\/\/complantwine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/complantwine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complantwine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complantwine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}