Sunday, December 21, 2008

Τέχνη αλυπίας 2004 and 2006

We had these two bottles of red wine over the last couple of nights with my parents and I found them both depressing, though the 2006 was worse than the 2004. They're from a city in Northern Greece called Δράμα. The '04 is described as a blend of cab sauv and merlot, which is reasonable, but the '06 adds syrah to the blend to disastrous effect. They both have nice legs, and color, and the '04 had a bit of sediment. But neither had a nose of anything, and the '06 especially was quite sour. I mean dry is one thing, sour is another. The lack of nose in the '06 was made especially sad by the fact that the label made some quite specific claims about what we ought to have been smelling, which I won't repeat here (too lazy to find the bottle).

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