(Feb 4, 2021) A couple of Cabs to start? And I live in Portland, right next to Pinot Country?
Yup. I find Pinot Noir to be a bit much, usually. Most of 'em are watery and have way too much to say for who they are. Sit down, Pinot, and quit interrupting.
Hey - do you know the song about Martin Scorsese? It's by King Missile, who most people know from 'Detachable Penis'. But I like this one better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVeGmfcHkS4
And here's some folks that look like me, if I were a post-punk band from New York getting together because why the fuck not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFU4xHmAEG8
Anyway. I get Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola mixed up. Not like sending each one the other's Christmas cards or anything, just - you know. Prolly because Goodfellas and The Godfather? They seem similar somehow.
Yup - this wine is from the Godfather and Apocalypse Now and Rumble Fish. And Jack, and Peggy Sue Got Married, somehow? I didn't know that. Also Captain EO! Like, the Disney ride! Wow. Thank you Wikipedia! I knew that Nicolas Cage is Francis Ford Coppola's nephew, but Jason Schwartzman is too? Weird.
Anyway. This wine is good! I like it. Most of Coppola's wines I think are underpriced for how good they are - but they're all in the $15-$20 range. I got mine at the grocery store.
It's got a lot of flavors going on but it's not too busy. Very drinkable, and it's nice both to enjoy having the taste in your mouth, and not so distracting that you can't write an appropriately polite email to your co-worker about what the union's been doing.
Could you have this with dinner? Sure - but it's a bit too cute for a steak, and a bit too much for a salad. Maybe a nice plate of pasta with some crusty bread, or a BLT that you eat over the sink, drinking wine right from the bottle? We don't stand on ceremony here, you know.
Cute might not be the right word. Cute like your wife when she wears makeup to go out, and you're happy to be best friends with someone that you like to look at - not cute like your daughter wearing piggy-tails. We'll save that kind of image when we get into the sweet pink wines.
Shudder. I am bad at foreshadowing. Especially in this blog format where that's really, for your experience, going to be aft-shadowing. Pre-shadowing?
If I've lived a bad life and reviewed a couple of pink sweet nasties then you'll have read those already, is what I'm saying.
The next day it had a bit more prune flavor, and just a hint of cough syrup. That's not a complaint, although I will concede that 'cough syrup' is not a taste seen as primarily or secondarily positive by the Court of Master Sommeliers.
We will hear from THEM again in this blog, for sure! I expect that as I write more posts here, and a narrative seeps into this blog, they will play the primary Villains. am excited to attempt a narrative flow in reverse temporal order, if you see what I mean.
Hey - Frankie C was born in Detroit! Hometown pride, yo. His sister Talia was Adrian in the Rocky films! That's a hell of a family. You make a good bottle of wine, too - so thank you, sir.
I rate this wine a 'Dracula' out of 22. Maybe out of 23, or even 24, depending on how you count things. By the time you read this it might even be higher!
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