In support of Covert's lament....
Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 6:46 pm
...I happen to fall upon a bottle of Chateau Greysac 01 Cru Bourgeois Medoc. It was on sale at the pathetic little wine store here in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia - not where I enjoy browsing for wines, but.... It's a wednesday and I am riding the recent Bordeaux learning wave.
My experience with Bordeaux is very limited - mostly a wine dinner at Morell's in NYC 2 years ago. Sunday night I enjoyed a St. Emilion Grand Cru.
This wine presented lots of earthy barnyard and espresso coffee on the nose. Licorice, some round vanilla on the palate. Abundance of deep and dark berry fruit, too. More coffee. Very slight coconut oak - anything more would be a turn off, but balanced. All I want to do is stick my nose in the wine (and sip it, of course!).
I am very frustrated that I am a poor starving artist. So many wines, so little times, so little money... and I still am going back to Italy for more Italian wines. I can only believe in reincarnation so I can come back and continue discovering more and more wines!
My experience with Bordeaux is very limited - mostly a wine dinner at Morell's in NYC 2 years ago. Sunday night I enjoyed a St. Emilion Grand Cru.
This wine presented lots of earthy barnyard and espresso coffee on the nose. Licorice, some round vanilla on the palate. Abundance of deep and dark berry fruit, too. More coffee. Very slight coconut oak - anything more would be a turn off, but balanced. All I want to do is stick my nose in the wine (and sip it, of course!).
I am very frustrated that I am a poor starving artist. So many wines, so little times, so little money... and I still am going back to Italy for more Italian wines. I can only believe in reincarnation so I can come back and continue discovering more and more wines!