Sunday, September 16, 2007

September 2007 - Red Wine

September 2007: Red Wine

A quick recap:

Wine 1 Cusumano Nero D'avola 2005 Sicily, Italy $13.39
Wine 2 Chateau Greysac 2003 Medoc (Gironde) France $20.00
Wine 3 Ecco Domani 2004 Chianti Tuscany region, Italy $12.25
Wine 4 Wrongo Dongo 2005 Jumilla Red wine, Spain $11.99
Wine 5 Vega Sindoa 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon-Tempranillo; Navarra, Spain $13.90

Wines 4 and 5 tied for first place with 6 votes. Wine 3 finished in third place with 5 votes. Wine 2 finished in second place. Wine 1 brought up the rear.

Memorable quotes from the evening:

Wine 1 Cusumano Nero D'avola 2005 Sicily, Italy $13.39
1. Serve with a cheap spaghetti dinner
2. Lots of tannins and peppery
3. Fruity
4. Makes me cough
5. Serve with chocolate, not cheese
6. Light with a slight alcohol scent
7. Serve when not trying to impress
8. Buy when I only have $5 to get my drink on.
9. Get’s ‘r done

Wine 2 Chateau Greysac 2003 Medoc (Gironde) France $20.00
1. I would drink this if “I had hippies over.”
2. It smells earthy, like Boulder, CO
3. Dark burgundy in color
4. Serve if hunting with Dick Cheney
5. Smells like grandma’s house
6. Nutty

Wine 3 Ecco Domani 2004 Chianti Tuscany region, Italy $12.25
1. Too smooth
2. Nice and light
3. Almost no smell
4. Layered and complex
5. Soapy
6. Serve with dinner when having friends over
7. Serve after everyone is already drunk

Wine 4 Wrongo Dongo 2005 Jumilla Red wine, Spain $11.99
1. Burns like cinnamon
2. Smells like a pugilist
3. Warrior-like
4. Smell is non-existent
5. Pungent
6. Something somebody at my stage in their career would buy
7. Naïve, innocent
8. Serve at a frat party
9. Gets you drunk real fast
10. Serve with breakfast, lunch and dinner
11. Not a sipping wine, serve with food
12. Earthy, dry, gritty

Wine 5 Vega Sindoa 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon-Tempranillo; Navarra, Spain $13.90
1. Dark red in color
2. Tobacco tasting
3. Serve with beef
4. Smoking loonish
5. Thick w/a long life on the tongue
6. Smells like some sense of motion
7. Smooth, deep and balanced

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