It will always whisper, in your mouth, complete unabashed honesty every time you take a sip.” This line taken from one of my favorite movies, A Good Year, with Russell Crowe, is telling the truth about wine and food as well. Both are incapable of lying. Since we are beginning to go into the throws of wine grape harvesting, it’s important to state that the key to great wine is the state of the grape at harvest and the artistry and the role of the winemaker is to allow the wines characteristics to shine through, thus revealing the truth and nothing but. When a wine grape is picked when under-ripe the resulting wine will be overly acidic. Too much sunshine causing overripe grapes, results in a wine that has high alcohol content. Overly tannic red wines show youth and more aging time needed in the bottle. Excessive use of fertilizers can give a wine an off-taste. Natural enhancers like the taste of iron in a wine shows grapes grown in subsoil with high iron content. The volcanic richness and earthiness in a Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa as well as the earthiness of a Burgudian Pinot Noir has no choice but to express itself within the wine. Wine has soul, and this evening I’m going to feel the full expression of my bottle of Tertre du Moulin 2006 St. Emilion Grand Cru. I’m going to savor every deep dark berry, gravelly-ladened sip….I’ll think about sharing.
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