http://decanterberrytales.com/blog/tags/medoc/ Decanterberry Tales - A Willamette Valley Wine Blog ... wine, pinot noir, etc en Decanterberrytales.com Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:19:00 GMT Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net) http://backend.userland.com/rss http://decanterberrytales.com/blog/2009/06/19/1245456660445.html <img width="188" height="250" src="http://dnj.netx.net/view/0185/p_18534.jpg" alt="" /><img width="188" height="250" src="http://dnj.netx.net/view/0185/p_18533.jpg" alt="" /><br /> <br /> We picked up this bottle from a local wine distributor that was closing down. You might blame it on the economy, yet this one had, shall we say, internal issues. Anyway, here's all this wine in a warehouse, and it's got to be sold: everything must go! So I have the opportunity to pick up some eclectic bottles for wholesale. This is one of those bottles.<br /> <br /> The nose started a bit chemically; that dissipated after about 10 or 15 minutes. Under and through that, was a vegetable matter smell. Rhubarb perhaps? Dust. Manure (earthy). Cinnamon. And kiwi. <br /> <br /> The body was medium, and it tasted a bit like spinach: dry and veggie. About mid-taste that turned more toward asparagus. There were no discernable fruit flavors here. <br /> <br /> The finish was dry, and slightly tannic.<br /> <br /> Elizabeth said it tasted like the Roquefort cheese we got for the dinner. And this was a really gooey and smelly cheese. And it was especially salty. Elizabeth liked that about this cheese. So this wine reminder her of the cheese from earlier. For Denise, this tasted like an unsalted beef broth. So, there you have two different takes: one salty and one not. I'm not sure what that means either. Nothing spectacular, yet everyone liked it well enough.<br /> <br /> <strong>Cost:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <img align="absmiddle" alt="" src="/images/3dollars.png" /><br /> <br /> Rating:&nbsp;<img align="absmiddle" alt="" src="/images/75stars.png" />&nbsp;&nbsp; 7.5</strong><br /> <br /> <em>(Merlot 60%, Cabernet Sauvignon 40%)</em> http://decanterberrytales.com/blog/2009/06/19/1245456660445.html#comments http://decanterberrytales.com/blog/2009/06/19/1245456660445.html Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:11:00 GMT http://decanterberrytales.com/blog/2009/01/02/1230919922035.html <img width="188" height="250" src="http://dnj.netx.net/view/0181/p_18128.jpg" alt="" /><br /> <br /> We're slowly moving out of our southern Rhone rut. Here we move a little to the west and into Bordeaux. <br /> <br /> In a word, this was a smelly wine. It has a musky meaty smell, kind of like an arm pit (but in a good way). Denise, as irreverent as always, said it smelled like genetalia (yes, she meant this in a good way, if you can believe that).<br /> <br /> The taste was plum, raisin, and bark right off the tree. Stems too. It was somewhat (but not overly) bitter and tannic. Disappointingly, it was also a bit &quot;watery&quot;. It was a light to medium body wine. From those strong aromas (and that it's a Bordeaux), we really expected a more full bodied wine. The finish took a slightly surprising turn: the plum changed to cherry. And that was mixed with a little cayenne. Spicy.<br /> <br /> Bottomline: the nose was really interesting (if not unsettling) yet the mouthfeel and taste were not up to par.<br /> <br /> <br /> <strong>Cost:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <img align="absmiddle" src="/images/2dollars.png" alt="" /><br /> <br /> Rating:&nbsp;<img align="absmiddle" src="/images/65stars.png" alt="" />&nbsp;&nbsp; 6.5<br /> </strong> http://decanterberrytales.com/blog/2009/01/02/1230919922035.html#comments http://decanterberrytales.com/blog/2009/01/02/1230919922035.html Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:12:02 GMT