Price: $13.90
Date drunk: April 9th, 2009
The smell!; it starts out bitter, acrid but, when the inhalation is finished and the scent swirls in the nose, the smell richens; the smell is that of, appropriately enough, ripened grapes—like those ones I used to mow around at Vesey's. I'd pull entire bunches off the vine, bite into them, suck out the juice and spit the seeds to the ground as I circled and circled on the Cub Cadet mower that had smoother steering than my car (smoother steering, actually, than anything else I'd ever driven). Those small, thick-skinned grapes were always a welcome treat toward the latter half of the mowing season. I haven't started drinking this yet; I'm still just enjoying the smell, swirling the glass under my nose over and over. I'm revelling in the smell, being all nostalgic for those grapes that grew, intertwined, with the kiwi trees in the arbour beside Arthur's Garden. The smell is so thick; cloyingly sweet. But now: DRINK TIME!
It's bitter—in the way that tobacco, cocoa are bitter. And there are hints of these in the finish of the wine (especially the cocoa). The start is very thin and somewhat harsh, but it levels off and rounds out nicely, though there is no sweetness here, which I tend to find less enjoyable than sweeter wines (or sweeter anything, really; it could be said that I have a sweet tooth [perhaps even several sweet teeth]). It's a smooth drink, though, in spite of its bitterness. And surprisingly refreshing. It's a very a clear tasting wine. There is simply the wine flavour; it hides behind nothing.
I'd wanted to try a wine made from organically grown grapes for a while now (one of my [many] pipe dreams is to eventually make wine from my own organically grown grapes. It's something I've thought about a lot [though not in any practical sense {pipe dream, remember?}] and it combines two things I enjoy [wine and growing things]. It would be great to bring something like that from, literally, the ground up. For myself, really.) and I'm glad I tried this one. It's fresh, clear, smooth and wonderfully bitter.
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