recipe: Provenance Napa Valley Merlot 2003
The challenge of this Wine Blog Wednesday (WBW) is to write your review in exactly 7 words. I have to say that, unfortunately, this wasn’t that hard of a challenger, because the wine I drank was not very inspiring, despite its $35 price tag.
Smooth, raspberry, vanilla, drinkable, nothing special, over-priced
UPDATE: Apparently I did not read the instructions right, and the challenge was to write about an ITALIAN red in only 7 words. Doh!! Well, through the magic of the internet, I am going to update this entry to include my Valentine’s Day dinner wine, which was actually contrarily very special and very memorable and ironically not as expensive. Barone Ricasoli Brolio Chianti Classico 2003 was a wine my husband and I had at a fantastic lunch in the Tuscan hills. It was actually the least memorable of 3 wines we had at that lunch, the most memorable being a Super Tuscan called Casalferro that the AltItalia authorities stole from us in the Rome airport. Last night however, the wine was incredibly memorable, so without further ado.
Dark, lush, toasty, complex, better when shared
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Not really to the rules (should have been an Italian red) and there is no link to the host; but as you sound so lovely I’ll let you in anyway! Thanks for taking part.
Comment by Andrew — February 15, 2008 @ 9:34 am