Big House Red 2003

[elfs]

The Big House Red
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It's been a while since I did any wine blogging, so let me try and catch up. Last week's wine was Big House Red, from Bonny Doon Vinyards.

There is a scene in an episode of Frasier where Niles ends up in some dive of a restaurant and tries to order wine, finally falling down to simply saying, "I'll have a glass of your... red." This is that wine.

Despite all the hype of the website ("a potent blast of raspberries and licorice" my left gnard), this is simply a red dinner wine. As such go, it's quite good, but it is neither terribly complicated or parkerise. A good accompaniment to savory dinners such as steak or marinara pasta, and a good dinner wine as opposed to a party wine.

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Bonny Doon Vineyards

[edichka2.livejournal.com]

Don't know that I've ever tried their product (I'm not much of an oenophile), but I used to pass their acreage all the time on Bonny Doon Road, not far from Santa Cruz. Possibly the most exquisite, effortless motorcycle road I know. Gorgeous, with flawlessly banked curves -- you can practically do the downhill twisties with no hands. You end up at the ocean, and you go home on Highway 1.

- Eddie