1 out of 5
My friend Kia was really into French culture and majored in it in college. When she moved there, she got head lice and had to shave her head. She hasn't been back since (true story).
This wine is Kia's head lice.
I'm not coming back to French wines with beige rectangular labels with cursive writing and a gold imprint of a 2-story house until i can afford the good French wines with boring beige rectangular labels with cursive writing and a gold imprint of a 2-story house.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
2008 Borsao Garnacha. Marushoku. 900yen
2.5 out of 5
The Don Quixote-ish image on the label should have warned me that this wine was going to be directionless.
An exotic spicy jam promised a satisfying conclusion, but then immediately dissolves into a pulpy mush. Drinking this wine is like watching a cricket match for the first time: the basic layout and equipment seem vaguely familiar, even exciting, but when the action starts you have no idea whats going on.
I'd drink this wine in the desert on a horse with no name, backward, playing solitaire with a deck of 51.
The Don Quixote-ish image on the label should have warned me that this wine was going to be directionless.
An exotic spicy jam promised a satisfying conclusion, but then immediately dissolves into a pulpy mush. Drinking this wine is like watching a cricket match for the first time: the basic layout and equipment seem vaguely familiar, even exciting, but when the action starts you have no idea whats going on.
I'd drink this wine in the desert on a horse with no name, backward, playing solitaire with a deck of 51.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
2008 Gracia de Chile Reserva Pinot Noir. Family Mart. 850yen
3.75 out of 5 stars.
Tastes like ethanol at first, but opens up rather nicely into cherries and berries after, like, 5 hours. Given the long decanting time, it's a bad choice for park, beach, or skateboard based drinking, but worked nicely as a data entry companion and mild pain killer.
Tastes like ethanol at first, but opens up rather nicely into cherries and berries after, like, 5 hours. Given the long decanting time, it's a bad choice for park, beach, or skateboard based drinking, but worked nicely as a data entry companion and mild pain killer.
A Blog Ferments
As a wine reviewer I have a least 3 strikes against me.
1) As a grad student, I have virtually no income
2) I live in Japan where there are two types of wine avaiable: pinkish-hued and Rothschild Grand Cru
3) I'm sure as shit not going to spit anything out, and much of the time I will drinking directly out of the bottle.
So basically if you want great recommendations for impressing people at dinner parties, you're in the wrong place. Go check out Robert Parker's blog or just fake it 'cause nobody's really going to notice.
However if you, dear reader, are a wine lover in spirit, live near a Japanese convienece store, or just tripped on to this site, I hope you will enjoy it.
Eventually some sort of review structure may emerge but I kinda doubt it.
1) As a grad student, I have virtually no income
2) I live in Japan where there are two types of wine avaiable: pinkish-hued and Rothschild Grand Cru
3) I'm sure as shit not going to spit anything out, and much of the time I will drinking directly out of the bottle.
So basically if you want great recommendations for impressing people at dinner parties, you're in the wrong place. Go check out Robert Parker's blog or just fake it 'cause nobody's really going to notice.
However if you, dear reader, are a wine lover in spirit, live near a Japanese convienece store, or just tripped on to this site, I hope you will enjoy it.
Eventually some sort of review structure may emerge but I kinda doubt it.
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