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I think we're about ready to start. Don't forget, there is a Zoom virtual meeting at 7:20 PM ET too.
Our wine for tonight is a young 2018 Mascota Vineyards Cabernet Franc. A few people mentioned it could lay down for a few years and it we be really really good. We will see! Side note on our outside picture, it is a little out of focus because I tried to focus on the background a little. If you look really close, slightly above the lip of the decanter and in between the wine bottle you will see out resident Barred owl sitting on a branch. The second picture is a zoomed in view.
Yes, I see the owl. Very cool.
V V, you have more wines too?
Ok folks, start giving us some feedback on your wines.
We rate the 2015 Muse Cabernet Franc as a 4 glasses sort of wine. It could use a few more years but you don't want to go too long with wines from Virginia. It definitely mellowed out in the decanter as I knew it would.
Soon we'll rate the 2015 Force Majeure Epinette.
Well, I see that many others are going for traditional Cabernet Franc makers, styles and regions, just like me.
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Mine is what you might expect from a full-cluster fermented wine aged in the traditional steel. Fairly light bodied, quite lean. Bright, tangy red fruit. I just thought of something, it has the exact same mouthfeel as cranberry juice. It doesn't taste, at all. like cranberry juice, but it has exactly the same body and leaves a tingly sensation on my tongue and palate.
I didn't know that steel was a traditional aging process.
Peggy is hard at work, downstairs, slicing and dicing. She's made a salsa verde, crushed up ice for margaritas and is about to start rolling out tortillas.
Where's Paul? He had two bottles lined up.
Kathleen, you should post a picture of something before starting up the Zoom meeting...
Margaritas and wine make for an interesting combo. We finished our chicken soft tacos that could have been burritos if the flour tortillas were larger.
Of course we have more wines, just not Cab Franc. We started out with a Scherrer Dry Rose of syrah.
Here is my Adelaida Cabernet Franc. Adelaida 2014 is from Paso Robles, Ca
I am still tasting it - it has some great legs
This wine makes me smile with abundance of flavor - more later!
Sarcasm.
Very nice Kathleen.
OK I'm going to go over to see if I can get on the Zoomcast.
We love Adelaida - our first ever wine club.
Some very cool stuff I see - the wines, the owl. hoot what a night. rick will bee here in a moment and we'll get started. They've been decanting - we've got beef pate, course Dijon mustard, yellow onion shreds and baked semolina bartard bread and sodium free crackers.
So the Raffault has a lovely bouquet, the CFO picked out a hint of caraway and I'm getting ripe black cherry on the nose. The taste is a bit subdued and tired, I'm thinking that this wine is in a shutdown phase, somewhere between the young fresh and fruity stage and the older earthy leathery stage. Here's something I didn't notice before.
OK, so the B. Baudry Les Granges 2017 comes across thusly:
"This youthful drinking version of M. Baudry is a delicious, light to medium Cabernet Franc with excellent colour (robe), a scent of celery, carrot top, wild grass and a hint of ripe cherry. On the palate, you get a little vanilla, gobs of fresh, ripe cherry and a light to medium density and medium finish. This is an excellent, northern climate wine for drinking now or in 1-2 years. 90."
Our first wine is the La Grande Vignolle 2015 - Excellent wine, dark cherry, blueberry a dash of wood and beautiful earthy notes. Slight herbal quantities and and completely different experience than last CF I had. This was rich & mouth filling with modest tannins and good acidity leading to a filling aftertaste.
93 pts =
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Hi, Rick here. The Vignolle showed cherries and an earthiness on the nose. The taste reflected the cherry along with blueberry. This is a big bold wine with aggressive tannins, it's earthy with along cherry finish that has a hint of pepper. 94 pts
Very nice everyone. EMark joined us in the Zoom meeting and that was a lot of fun too.
"Sample not for sale". Interesting... VV
Hey, the virtual group proposed that we try a Chardonnay next Tuesday. What do you folks think?
Moving right along... but Chard is fine with me.
V V - Sample not for resale?
That's two for Chardonnay. After that, perhaps a Borolo? (Asking for a friend.)
Ok, SZ, I've never heard this tasting note; "a scent of celery, carrot top, wild grass".
You now... you get these from "marginal" wine growing regions in my experience... often with PN, but sometimes with CF in Canada or northern France. You could be more general and say: Vegetable top, or something like that...
BTW, regarding Chard... best to try to suggest a style. I vote for Chablis, but les Patriotes de Californie may wish to differ. But, democrat to the core that I am, whatever the majority preference is fine with me.
FYI on the Zoom meeting for next week, 12 May 2020:
Topic: Kathleen Cutler's Virtual Wine Tasting - Chardonnay
Time: May 12, 2020 07:20 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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