Taste it Again / Lost & Found
On occasion, I’ll take a wine I like and put it away in a “special box” for a few years to see how it will age … below you will read happened to those wines. On the other hand, there are wines that get “lost” in my wine cellar with nary a review ever written - some have turned into golden Treasures, others supreme Trash and then there are those that fall somewhere in-between (Tolerable). We’ll look at those here too. (New wines are being added all the time so keep coming back):
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Sep
2017
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Category: Lost & Found / Taste it Again
(June 18, 2016) ... Look, I'm not going to beat around the bush here, I'm a fan of the Delaine Syrah, it's a good wine no matter what the vintage. 2011 looked like it might be disastrous for Syrah, but instead the Delaine version proved me wrong again; so now, 5 years from vintage date, and this wine is still going strong: savoury and meaty, though it has lost some of its spicy zing; now it's smooth and easy and a great pairing with steak because that acidity helps right the palate.
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Sep
2017
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Category: Lost & Found / Taste it Again
(June 14, 2016) ... I misidentified this wine during a podcast taping of Two Guys Talking Wine as one made from Washington grapes during a short crop season; in speaking with (winemaker at Vineland) Brian Schmidt much later I found out the grapes were actually from Bulgaria - I must have been thinking of a Willow Heights wine from the same year.
Plenty of forest floor notes here, dried but drinkable, with Port-like nuances (yet only 13% alcohol); strawberry-balsamic and black cherry fruit leather are also lying in the weeds, this wine is more of a curiosity than anything at this moment.
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