Wine
Notebook, Part 16 (June 7, 2007)
by the Wine Baron
A nice
sunny day, not too hot. Took
my aunt to eye doctor appointment in Hamilton today.
Works out fine, I've got to visit client retail stores
in Hamilton anyway. Working on getting Dois
Amigos into more LCBO's. It's such a fine wine for
the price. At $12.15 for 1.5 Liters, it's a steal.
Wrote
a couple of wine articles, and corresponded with a
French chateau about their dessert wine.
Enjoyed
a nice affordable French wine today: CHRISTIAN
MOUEIX SAINT-EMILION 2003.
It's
under $15 and exhibits all the finesse and charm of many
more expensive Bordeaux wines. Its aromas of floral and
cedar are followed by flavors of ripe fruit. This
all-Merlot wine is medium bodied and has firm structure
and just right tannins. This is the little cousin of
Chateau Petrus, the famous St. Emilion wine (correction,
make that "Pomerol") because Petrus is 500
meters outside the St. Emilion boundary, just inside
Pomerol. Well, that's another story for another
day.
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