Claire's Wine Tasting

Last night we went to Claire's for wine tasting and hor dourves. It's happening every Thursday night for the summer. Claire's is the cafe on the bluff over-looking the water, the Long Beach Harbor and the man made islands named after our long lost astronauts.
The cafe is embedded in the center of the Long Beach Art Museum, and as we sat watching the sunset, the swimmers frolicking in the waveless sea, and the runners, bikers, and skateboarders, we sipped a delicious variety of red and white wines. It was a perfect date night. It smoothed the feathers of my hubby's tense day, and it let me look at him in the golden orange light, laughing at his great one-liners.
For a while we tried to figure out a plot line and climax to a story I want to write, but it got too hard, so we talked about the tasty cabernet and syrah that sat before us.
I liked the little place mat with the wine descriptions. Each glass had deliriously luscious adjectives like cherries, plum, smoke, crisp, ginger. Smooth wines, 2 of which we can't even buy because only 200 bottles were made, and Claire's was the lucky recipient of the gift of 40 bottles.
There were four generously poured tasting glasses, and after the first flight (the four samples) we got to choose either another flight, or one glass of our favorite. Hubby chose the dessert wine and then ordered the chocolate mousse, my favorite!