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  • This wine (65% Grenache, 25% Mataro and 10% Shiraz) had a fairly alcoholic fruity nose – nothing of much note – perhaps dried apricot. The taste on the mouth was pretty much just tannin’s and dried fruit (apricot slabs). Not integrated, not balanced, not drinkable. Left for several hours to see if it would improve unfortunately it did not. I’d rate this one a MASSIVE pass. Perhaps I’d try it again in 18-36 months, but am not holding out much hope.

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  • Nose: Hints of lemon zest on light toast with subtle yeasty notes.

    On the mouth – initial explosion of fine to medium bubble, followed quickly with a yeasty flavour that is almost instantly replaced by acid and a nice sharp finish.

    Not too shabby.

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    If you’ve experienced the pain of a screwed up page (formatting) after embedding a youtube video – try the page here, very, very helpful! The above saved my site – it took forever to work out why the formatting went all fubar. The code supplied by youtube out of the box does not work well with WordPress and Firefox, most of this is related to changes introduced by the wordpress graphical editor. However, a few simple changes, removing of the “embed” tags and life is once again happy and videos, embeddable and viewable by the important browsers.

  • Sorry – have not worked out how to cleanly embed video in wordpress – will hopefully work it out soon enough.Nuff saidNormally embedding the code provided by youtube screws up formatting, lets see if this works

  • Are you a geek? If so, would you consider yourself an oenophile (wine lover/wine fan)?

    Having read? a blog post that suggests that geeks love to get the core of problems, to discover the key to “problems” or otherwise get to the heart of anything that they enjoy doing (games, puzzles etal). I’d have to say that when it comes to my wine, of late I have been getting into it to “work it all out” and understand whats going on. When I first got into wine, I just looked for ones I liked – starting w/ Shiraz’s and Cabernet Sauvignon’s.

    Recently? however I’ve begun to explore the concept that perhaps there is more to wines than just the surface scratching I was doing initially – you could pretty much guarantee that I would ignore any white if there was a red about, now, I’m not so sure – I enjoy wines not only for the pleasure experienced drinking them (specifically w/ good people and good conversatoin) but for the deeper aspects related to them – the smells and tastes, I’ve begun picking apart wines and associating varietal based on the components that make up the smells and flavours, grouping varietals together in a “class” ie: Petit Verdot? lives up with the Cab Sauv’s and Shiraz’s in a different “class” to Pinot Noir, based on all these flavour and smell profiles. This has led to me *trying* pretty much any wine I come across – to build up a bigger experience library of such smells and flavours regardless of varietal or even colour. This is something that makes me pretty happy – and also brings to mind a realisation when it comes to wine – it’s beyond unlikely that you could get bored/work it all out! Give it a go though.

    So – the point of todays post – of the Geeks out there who are oenophile’s I suspect this will be one hobby/experience that you won’t be able to tire of, because every vintage is different, there are many many places you can get wines from and all the things that go into making a wine – good luck working it all out and getting bored!

    For non-geeks out there – you may not take pleasure in trying to work everything out – but try every wine you can get your hands on, read things about wines, but above all – don’t be swayed by other peoples opinions – only you can know what you like!

  • This Italian varietal hailing all the way from Italy was a gift from a friend. Phoar, I reckon I’m a pretty good friend. 😉

    It seems that the Italian varietal Primativo is also known as Zinfandel (which seems to be somewhat popular in California) the colour is fairly deep purple with somewhat brownish tinges/hues – I can’t seem to pin the nose down on this one – its very obvious with its alcohol content, but some degree of asphalt-iness , I’ll have to leave it at that. However, where this wine shines is on the palate – decant this one!!! initially with no air time its almost somewhat vinegary, but after a few hours oodles of dried stone fruit pops out onto the palate, followed up with some very long lasting, nicely integrated tannins. This is a very pleasant wine to drink – drink w/ a somewhat spicy (pepperoni) pasta.

  • Not expecting much – this is rather rather old for a Merlot, pulled the cork and a bit of a sharp smell permeated the near area for 30 seconds – almost vinegary. Poured into a glass – and getting schwags of black current on the nose and an interesting almost hint of wet lawn. Fair alcohol component.

    Taste- a peppery bite, not much mid palate but tails off into degrading fruit. Definitely excessively old. There is a pretty good chance that I could be wrong – Merots are not my thing, but its interesting in and of itself to try, there is a chunk of alcohol in its flavour profile. Not really feeling it, but there are other notes to pay attention to – perhaps a little mint (pepper/spear combined) and some other things I can’t yet put my finger on. Try one of these when they are not quite so old.

  • Ooooer, a nice tannic wine, hard to describe due to length of time that has passed since I consumed this one (a habit I am fortunatly getting out of – have about 3 months worth of shelf bottles to get through today). Check it out – won’t appeal to everyone, but if you like Petit Verdot, Shiraz and Cab Sauv there is a chance you’ll find it interesting.

  • Tasty drop not too sweet for a desert wine though. Been a looong time since I drank this one and can’t remember much other than it being very nice and not over poweringly sweet. A pity that the Racked Semillion is all that you’ll get from Coriole at the moment.