Oops, Bandol, not Banol.
Another one of old homemade wines from my cellar: 2009 âVieux Courielâ GSM blend, roughly 70% grenache, 20% syrah, 10% mourvedre. The fruit from the grenache is still lively, the syrahâs tannins have muted, mourvedre is as earthy as at the beginning.
Home winemakers like to give their wines cute names. âVieux Courielâ is a takeoff on âVieux Telegraphâ, the Châteauneuf du Pape grenache-based classic. Couriel is email in French (but I think they mostly say âemailâ).
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Sunshine and I were looking for a wine for her to take to a âgirlâs nightâ party. While looking, I stumbled across a new variety of Mad Dog. I didnât know they made a Dragonfruit version. So the next full moon, Iâm going to re-live my youth & this dog is going to bark!!
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Frico Frizzante. Low ABV - 10 %. Can is 250 mil.
Iâd just poured out my second wee bottle of Prosecco - itâd gone bad. Dark color, no fizz. Grrrr. Down the drain.
So this was in the fridge. Nice and cold. I paired it with ⌠itâs 5:00 pm. I nibbled on some cheese and ate a couple of olives out of the jar in the refrigerator door.
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Nice to have around when you donât want to commit to a bottle. I believe this is the one that Bar Mezzana (Boston) uses in their brunch Bellini.
It was sold out for the longest time in the one wine store that carried it here.
Lyrical, a homemade Rhone blend from 2004, the first wine I liked enough to share with friends who liked it!). Over the years, Iâve made Rhone-ish blends from Syrah, Grenache, and Morvedre. Lyrical, named after French Lirac from southern France, is a blend of the leftovers, about 30% of each varietal. After 20 years and an airing off of bottle stink, it shows chocolate and butterscotch, and a little bit of spice box. Mostly faded though, but what ever, itâs the last bottle, and I fucking made it.
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Another oldie of my own, a 2006 zinfandel from the Shenandoah Valley (Sierra foothills of California, Wilderotter Vineyard). My long-time supplier had these from the time I started winemaking in 1997 (first Zin in 1998). The ownership of the supplier changed in 2021, and they donât have it anymore. This lasted very well. There was lots of black fruit and something rustic that I canât pin down. The wine was darker than what you see in the photo.
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Marques de Murrieta Rioja Alta, Chateaux Latour 1990, Chateaux DâYquem1988 and âOld Fashionâ using Weller Antique 107 Kentucky Bourbon.
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Weâre guessing you long ago stashed a case of the 2000.
Ha! Ha! I wish!
