A nice birthday party with a lot of wine

Yesterday we had a birthday party for a few family members at the same time. We had a nice BBQ and, of course, there was wine ... 

We started of with a nice bottle of rose champagne, and although I am normally not really a fan of rose champagne, this one was really quite good (we got it ourselves in the champagne region a few months back).  The website of the producer is currently down, but you should be able to find it here eventually.

During dinner we drank the excellent Dignus 2004 wine of Bodegas Viña Magaña. It really is an excellent and smooth wine with a perfect balance of taninnes, sourness and body. For the guru affectiados: it got 89 points from Parker which is really good considering the price of this wine.

After dinner there was again the need for some champagne as a pregnancy was unexpedly announced. This time we drank a bottle of Brut Carte d'Or from the excellent Veuve Olivier champange house in Trelou Sur Marne.

To finish the evening we drank a very nice Shiraz from South Africa, but unfortunately I forgot to write down additional information.