Archives for September, 2007
#@*&%!
The lack of content this summer has been largely due to the fact that I’ve been having a depressingly bad (badly depressing) year. I’ve been in therapy for like the kazillionth time dealing with very old but not yet stale issues of life, death and fear of both. My old man died and as much as I’d like to say it wasn’t such a big deal… well, it wasn’t big but it was a deal. Notwithstanding the Parkinson’s, he wasn’t very old (except in a Yankee kinda way which means he was prematurely aged, most likely due to a shitty diet and lack of exercise) but he was fairly miserable so his departure was something of a relief, albeit a disconsolate one. Then there are the facts that the wine group I was involved in dissolved at the same time I had to cancel most of my wine club memberships (3 out of 4) due to financial constraints.
I’ll probably keep blogging but I need to give some thought to the why of it. I like to write and I like to drink wine but the two sometimes interfere with each other.
Michel-Schlumberger Dry Creek Valley Chardonnay 2002
The winemaker’s note says
…subtle aromas of citrus, guava and mango to those of dried flowers and minerals…
but I’d modify that to say
…subtle aromas of oak, oak and oak to those of dried oak and oak…
They then claim that
These new plantings bring a fine structure, found in the best Chardonnays but an elusive quality factor for most New World examples.
Can you get more incomprehensible than “an elusive quality factor”? I think what they’re trying to say is “an impalpable value aspect”. Got it?
BTW, are there any grapes in this? It tastes like someone figured out how to squeeze the juice out of their firewood. It’ll run you about $20 if you go for this sort of thing. Serve cold to minimize the alcohol (13.9% which is almost too much but just barely).