One of the things I’d like to do with this site is highlight a wine of the week that we really enjoyed. My intent is to talk about what I liked about the wine and the food that I paired with the particular bottle.

My husband and I went to the Capital Grille in Chevy Chase for a romantic dinner. After a lovely glass of Australian chardonnay from Eden Valley (to go with our lobster and crab cakes), we had a fantastic Spanish red - Bodegas Alto Moncayo Veraton (2011) from Campo de Borja. What a great compliment it was to the Kona coffee-crusted ribeye that I had and the Cajun rub on the filet my husband had. The wine had a very nice body, and as it is an old-vine Granacha, it was wonderfully jammy but also had some of the complexity of a cabernet. A great recommendation from the waiter at Capital Grille.