[Wine] A few different ones...
Jan. 16th, 2005 12:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsWell, as I mentioned last night, we're all grown up now and can buy wines and drink them without bingeing, so I had a few at the party last night.
Rosemont Estate's Traminer/Reisling blend, 2003. This was the hit of the party, and I should have bought two because it disappeared so quickly. Properly chilled to near-freezing as all whites should be, it was wonderful, fruity and drinkable and refreshing as well. Pleasant aftertaste, too.
Lennard's Crossing Syrah, 2003: A warm red, rich and interesting, a classic Australian flavor bomb with a full blackberry compliment and wonderful mouthfeel that lingered for a while.
Smoking Loon Cabernet Sauvignon, 2002: I'm not as familiar with Cab-Sauvs as I should be, but I enjoyed this wine. It was much drier than the Syrah, naturally, and more complicated. It didn't have an aftertaste worth noting either way.
Domaine Ste. Michelle Blanc de Blanc champagne. Very dry, not to mine or Omaha's tastes, but as a gesture, a champagne nonetheless. No real comments on it.
And finally, Charles Shaw's Sauvignon Blanc. I'd heard a lot about "two buck Chuck," as it's known when it's sold through Trader Joe's, but, y'know, it's a terrible wine. It starts off fine but it has a thin, reedy, unpleasant aftertaste that just doesn't work. Nobody drank it. The word of the evening for it was disappointing. It's going into the wine cabinet to be used in pilafs and risottos, and that's about it.
Rosemont Estate's Traminer/Reisling blend, 2003. This was the hit of the party, and I should have bought two because it disappeared so quickly. Properly chilled to near-freezing as all whites should be, it was wonderful, fruity and drinkable and refreshing as well. Pleasant aftertaste, too.
Lennard's Crossing Syrah, 2003: A warm red, rich and interesting, a classic Australian flavor bomb with a full blackberry compliment and wonderful mouthfeel that lingered for a while.
Smoking Loon Cabernet Sauvignon, 2002: I'm not as familiar with Cab-Sauvs as I should be, but I enjoyed this wine. It was much drier than the Syrah, naturally, and more complicated. It didn't have an aftertaste worth noting either way.
Domaine Ste. Michelle Blanc de Blanc champagne. Very dry, not to mine or Omaha's tastes, but as a gesture, a champagne nonetheless. No real comments on it.
And finally, Charles Shaw's Sauvignon Blanc. I'd heard a lot about "two buck Chuck," as it's known when it's sold through Trader Joe's, but, y'know, it's a terrible wine. It starts off fine but it has a thin, reedy, unpleasant aftertaste that just doesn't work. Nobody drank it. The word of the evening for it was disappointing. It's going into the wine cabinet to be used in pilafs and risottos, and that's about it.
