Semi-OT: Pizza on the egg and a blind taste test to determine our favorite Pinot Noir.

Last night some good friends came over for homemade pizza on the egg and an opportunity to use a new "game" I got for Christmas called "All You Need Is Wine". 

http://www.amazon.com/Wine-Game-Kit-Blind-Tasting/dp/B003NAAQ4E

The 4 of us went to Napa/Sonoma together about a year ago and as a result of that trip we have really learned to like a number of the pinot noirs from that area and we were curious which one we would like best out of the ones we arguably thought were the best. We had hoped to include some other friends and do this on a larger scale where we include a number of less expensive wines (including the Costco Kirkland wine), but two other couples were unavailable so we went with Belle Glos Dairyland, Belle Glos Clark and Telephone, Twomey Sonoma Coast, and J Vineyards.  Each of them costs about $40 +/- 5.

We did the pizza at 550 with platesetter, then pizza stone on the grid.  Got dough from Double Dave's.  Put on a little olive oil with garlic and used Emeril's Tomato Basil as our sauce.  We made a variety of pizzas - mostly half and half.  The pics are limited as we were multitasking, but the pic with the partially eaten pizza was our margherita pizza that we had for a 2nd appetizer after some fresh bruschetta.  Behind the pizza you can see two of the bags from the game that were used to cover the wine bottles.  The other pic is of a 1/2 brisket and pineapple, 1/2 pepperoni and sausage and mushroom and red pepper pizza.  The best pizza of the night was my daughter's brisket and red onion pizza where she added some Stubb's BBQ sauce to the Emeril's sauce in a 50/50 mix.

The wine results were mixed with the Dairyland and the J getting the top votes and the Twomey (which we all thought would win) coming in last, but still quite good.  Next time we will broaden the field.

Thanks for looking.