After turkey stew our co-hosts Heather and W. D. Allen entertained us with a sort of fancier-than-late-harvest 2005 botrytis semillon by Bimbadgen Estate (Australia) and a game of scrabble. Other guests included Wendeep Oaksminder and an old standby named Lightfoot.
Apparantly botrytis is a greyish mould one WANTS growing on grapes as it draws water out of the fruit thus concentrating flavours and sugars. I understand it is a dicey task of controlling the alcohol levels and will easily fall below official 'wine' standards (leaving one with a 'cider' or a 'cooler' perhaps?) Then, using God knows what procedure, the fungus and other impurities are removed, extracted, exiled, killed, 'shaken down', or sent to Abu Graib for all I know, and we are left with quite an amazing beverage, definitely for sipping not chugging.
Notice the golden colour. I tastes just like it looks plus apricotty, citrusy, leathery (in a good way), syrupy, spicy and a half million other things. W. D. himself contemplated: "one could virtually never run out of adjectives to describe this".
-J. Floorburn
7 comments:
greatful !
... also, god i miss that house !!
there is talk of a wine and cheese sniff and taste soon. will advise.
is ONE wanting the growing on grapes, or is it actually the grapes wanting the growing?
Sounds like yer a "Fun Guy !?"
muwahahahah...
...i know, sorry.
re: M. Orange's comment.
I fail to see the ambiguity in my statement. although it may be clumsy I believe the meaning to be clear. however, if ANYONE wants me to retry, I can surely do better.
this wine takes the place of chocolate in my heart!
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