After an approximately half year break, we have returned to the wine blog. josh and i both attempted to invent some excuses for why we have not blogged since may, but the best we could come up with was josh's guess that it might have had something to do with the hot weather. were that the case, however, we probably should have started back up in october....but oh well - it seemed most appropriate to start back up with the beginning of a new year.
Josh and Becky have recently come into copious amounts of wine from the sonoma producer Elyse. As a result I got a beautiful bottle of the 2004 zin, my family was lucky enough to enjoy the cab over christmas, and we had a bottle of the 2006 pinot noir to crack open and enjoy with some black eyed peas.
Josh felt that this wine was soft and floral which I agree with wholeheartedly - sort of a light rubbing alcoholish feel on the nose - but doesn't burn. Upon further reflection I got hints of a syrup on the nose - maybe cherry cola, but not fruity like cherry. Josh got a similar tone, but he expressed it maybe more articulately as the vanilla extract syrup richness one might detect in a brandy
on balance, josh hit the nail on the when he simply classified this juice as delicious and well balanced , saying that if he had another one in the wine closet he would open it to have with a roasted chicken in october. We all agreed that this juice is maybe held back only by the fact that we opened it in 2009 - could have waited another year. Regardless - this is an unapologetic A-.
OK - we are back on the wagon - expect posts with more frequency. Happy vino drinking!
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