Price: $9.95
Date Drunk: February 18th, 2009
To begin with, I feel I have to mention that this is the first night of solo wine talk; g.'s tackling the white and, as she doesn't enjoy them, I get to take care of the red. To be honest, I find this a bit strange—I think my favourite part of this wine-blogging is the union of it—the sense of communion over a shared bottle of wine: criticising it, laughing over it, yelling sour grapes at it and, of course, drinking it. Together. This method—a bottle each—strips the process of much of that togetherness, that shared moment when we react to the first sip of the shared bottle of wine, see the reaction in each other's eyes. The social aspect of it is lacking tonight; as a result, I imagine I'll not often be drinking red wine. It just feels sort of lonely to each be at our respective computers, typing away, drinking away. There. Now that that's out of the way, I'll get on with it.
So, for starters, of course, we need to get the description of the bottle's animal out of the way:
The Indigo Bunting often graces the grassy woodland edges, shrubby roadsides and open brushy fields of Pelee Island with its excited warble and evening flight song. Usually seen as a black silhouette, the bird relies on brilliant sunlight to transform its dark plumage into the bright turqoise-blue for which it is named. The Indigo Bunting is the only small North American finch which can boast this distinctive colouration.
I really like the colour of this wine: it's a deep almost-purple-red, which light doesn't seem to like penetrating; I'm not going to say it's some sort of impenetrable wine-fortress or anything like that; it just looks good.
The scent of this is that typical slightly nose-stinging red wine scent.
The first gulp elicited no shivers or any such adverse reactions: a good start. The taste is fairly smooth, with a bit of a tang at swallow-time, but with an overarching sense of good almost tastelessness—like water, but with something richer lurking in the shadows, something insinuating sourness, with maybe an almost cherry hint sneaking around in the taste's backyard. A lightly fruited wine that works its magic through subtle flavourings that become more pronounced the more I drink it.
I think I'm a fan.
3 comments:
This is good. Like the back of a wine bottle--but with less WILDLIFE.
Pelee Island Gewurztaminer was my pick of the entire wine show in 2007, if you haven't tried that I recommend it highly. Good to know that their other wines are worth trying as well.
We actually have tried that! I think I liked it--it was kind of spicy. We should review it soon.
And yeah, their other wines are definitely worth trying. We've had them all, and the only one I didn't like was their Riesling Dry.
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