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Should Bad People Drink Good Wine?
You know that you are an extremely thoughtful, caring person. Not like those schmucks you have to contend with at the office; the drivers on their cell phones; the people at the coffee shop that apparently have never ordered coffee before. You know the type, all those folks with the guile of weasels and the manners of cave dwelling hogs.
But you, most respected and admired wine lover, are everything that is "intelligent, brave, generous, handsome, and charming with the manners of the French drawing room and the suntanned vigor of an American cowboy." (Or cowgirl.)
You deserve wines for extremely thoughtful people. Not those silly wines that the most stunningly attractive people on the planet might be observed to be knocking back on the Côte d'Azur and Rodeo Drive, their brains largely uninhabited by the bothersome presence of actual thought. Rather, you deserve wines with charm, finesse, elegance and that certain je ne sais qua that only truly thoughtful people (like yourself) can appreciate. So, with hardly any further delay - this week's very thoughtful wines for thoughtful people:
But wait! First - the premier installment of a new Guy du Vin feature:
Mistress Jeanette's Sinister Sideboard - where every month we take a brief, and potentially lethal, visit to the back of the wine cellar, pull out a wine that we have forgotten about and (we hope) live to discuss.
This week: Arbor Crest Cabernet Sauvignon, Bacchus Vineyard, Washington 1982 Premiere Release - Bottle #3378 of #8928.
Arbor Crest was started in 1982 in Spokane Washington on the Mielke family's cherry farm. We found this bottle in a particularly scary section of the cellar noted for very cranky (but quite fecund) spiders - as well as a stack of old record albums including a copy of Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain / Closer to Home - the origin of which Guy du Vin disavows all knowledge.
Review: Surprisingly drinkable. Still has a lot of fruit and even some structure left. Lots of vegetal and soy characteristics (even a note of fish!). More interesting than tasty. This was probably never a great wine and never meant for aging. We commented on how pleased we were that the wine had lasted for so long and we quickly opened something else to drink.
Mistress Jeanette's Rating: 1 ½ whips
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