Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Better Judgement later?


Opened a bottle of Loring 07 Keefer Ranch Chard: the Ain’t-commercially-available, but-only-cause-you-know-Brian, and-he-hooked-you-up-personally, can-you-get this-juice, bottle. Like to brag much? Well, Popped it with Erika and was, huh, perplexed and concerned. Wanted to love it, cause I appreciate Brian and his wares, but it seemed disjointed. Erika asked what I thought, and I wanted to wait for what she thought before I “Colored” her opinion. She found it sweet, and tart. I found it awkwardly broken into little pieces. It's acidity didn't seem to be lined up with or emeshed with the fruit and the finish. And that really bummed me out, because Brian has been so generous with his time, and spirit, AND the bottle was a gift for my B-Day after he’d been so cool as to take us around his place barrel tasting…
BUT, as you can already tell, this review/diatribe/long winded rant is gonna turn good, cause if I didn’t like Brian’s wine, it would’ve gone unsaid…
After it had a little time to warm and get some air, all of these “disjointed pieces” began to marry. So unexpected. Everything, which started out so disparate, came into focus, and equilibrium. (And it takes time AND air, cause the re-closed bottle didn’t have the beauty of the wine sitting in the glasses)
It was kind of like one of those “Magic Pictures” from the 80’s that you’d have to stare at and purposely blur your vision until, out of nowhere, a 3D image would appear. It went from awkward to yummy. So interesting, to see everything TRUELY come into focus. I've never experienced anything like it before.
Another fun reminder of the beauty and mystery of wine, it's living qualities...
(Day 4) In true Loring style, this bad girl chard is still going strong. How does this guy do it? What is his magic? Gravity-defying, death-defying, Chard! Cheers, Mista' Loring!

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