Backfill & Diversify Vol. 3
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It's not often one tastes a wine that leaves one with
a feeling of awe at just what grape + mother nature
can =. I sit at my desk with a glass to hand and in
it, all innocent-looking, is a small pour of a
Spanish red wine that, minutes ago, lit up my taste
buds like an exploding fundamentalist.
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I look at the sample - a modest inch of liquid the
colour of a red midnight - and think about wine
jargon. I am certain that I could find untold other
red wines that would look very similar in the glass.
I have, therefore, to prod myself into a descriptive
state; to find ways to differentiate, in written
word, the difference between this limpid stain and
the next. This is, of course, where jargon comes in.
Click on the tasting note icon for my effort.
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Here's Parker:
"The profound 2001 Palomero boasts an opaque
ruby/purple color as well
as an extraordinary perfume of sweet saddle leather,
smoke, herbs, blackberries, creme de cassis, truffles, and
graphite. One of the most prodigious Ribera del Dueros I have tasted, it offers
great precision, fabulous concentration, and a long,
40+ second finish. Anticipated maturity: now-2016.
96/100."
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