Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Final impressions on the wine

A few people have asked me how I enjoy the homemade wine here, since I have in the last year-and-a-half developed a strong interest and enjoyment in wine.  Having developed my own tastes and methods for appreciating various kinds of wines, do I objectively enjoy what my family makes?  And so, for a critical opinion on the wine: it is some of the most pleasurable wine, in its own way, I have ever drank.  In a sense, it is unrecognizable as wine when compared with what you find at a wine store in the United States; there is no body, tannin, or real layers to this wine like you would find in a conventional bottle (either red or white, “good” or “bad,” and regardless of price).  Both the tinto and the albariño are so light, so devoid of the sensations (both in flavor and taction) of alcohol, that you can almost forget you are drinking wine at all.  If that sounds unappealing to wine drinkers, I would say only that conceptually it sounds unappealing to me too, but that the actual experience is, to my tastes, absolutely delightful.  One of the things serious wine drinkers rave about most is terroir, the idea that a great wine should reflect the specific place it is from, imparting flavors distinct to the earth it is born from; I have never experienced terroir so clearly and richly expressed as I have in these wines, which taste as simply and purely delicious as I can imagine.  These are wines that mask nothing, and without the concern of critical reviews/sales & marketing/ageability (or whatever other things affect the greater wine world), these are made to enjoy on the most basic level--and they do.

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