Nose: Stone. Cinnamon currant. A little barnyard.
Mouthfeel: Medium velvet beanbag.
Color: The bastard child of light garnet and violet. Nice clarity.
Palate: fresh picked blackberry. Cinammon, Curry, red currant or cranberry, pipe tobacco, plum tart, clove, chocolate/
French oak stands out, but it’s nicely tempered and balanced. (It’s relaxed, but there’s a little attitude that simmers under the surface)
French oak stands out, but it’s nicely tempered and balanced. (It’s relaxed, but there’s a little attitude that simmers under the surface)
This wine fools you. She looks a little older than she actually is. A little country French girl frontin’ like she’s Marie Antoinette.
She really likes those blackberry filed cocoa dusted chocolate squares.
She’s smiling coquettishly at the Leadbelly bluesman performing on the sidewalk, waiting for $ to be tossed in the hat.
They make eye contact.
And later, at the end of the day, they share an espresso and the chocolate, speaking introductory niceties in between bites. Chewing, mouths open.
He’s been over in France for about 3 weeks. After he graduated college, he grabbed his guitar and hopped a flight. Lives in a tiny apt. Decorated with linen on a laundry line. Cobblestoned Street in front.
She bands over to pull up her stockings and he gets a look down her shirt.
Suddenly, the day’s sunset, lingers, slows down, and they take time to truly appreciate the experience. With no agenda.
But after a minute or 2, they decide to meet for drinks later.
She’s 18. But, in Europe who the hell cares.
Great now. Sexy and young. But lay her down for another 10 years, and she’ll be Marie, all bustiered and hoop skirted.
57% Cabernet. 30% Merlot. 8% C. Franc, 3 % Petit Verdot, 2% Malbec.
About 6 ton per acre yield
Manual Harvest. Aged for 14 months in both new and used French oak.
Larose De Gruaud
2006
Saint-Julien
29$ per bottle
Great wine for the $’d pedigree.
87 pts.
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