Whenever one of my best friends has a birthday, I host a dinner party! And I usually align the wine pairings with something that I'm studying or exploring. This time, I was intrigued by a book I've been reading. During one of my wine groups' online chats recently, David of Cooking Chat and I connected on Good Reads and I found this title on his virtual bookshelf - Godforsaken Grapes: A Slightly Tipsy Journey through the World of Strange, Obscure, and Underappreciated Wine by Jason Wilson.* I was immediately intrigued and ordered up a copy for myself. I'm not very far into the book. But, in less than 40 pages, my wine shopping list had over half a dozen varietals to check out. That decided it: Jenn's birthday dinner was going to focus on Godforsaken Grapes. I decided to pair and pour a Petit Verdot and a Touriga Nacional. Petit Verdot Petit Verdot is one of the original Bordeaux varieties. While it isn’t planted in Bordeaux in vast quant...