TN: Verset 99

[Jeff Grossman]

Opened yesterday: lots of mashed blueberries, but not sweet ones, with a lot of smelly butt; satisfactory, if funky

Today: the blueberries have been joined by olives and pickles and a bit of shoe polish (which almost goes away with more air)

It's viscous and the flavors linger long after swallowing. Although it was similarly hearty as the food I ate with it, there was no particular synergy.

A very quirky drink. It made me think not at all of other people's syrah. That's a win.

(Thanks to Jay Miller for sharing his auction lot with me.)

 

[Cristian Dezso]

Jeff, I just bought few of these. Do you think it might be better to wait with them or they seem ready to go?
If anyone is interested I think they might still have a few here as well as the 2000.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

The 99s are ready to go. They'll hold a few more years, too.

(I guess I should have just said, "Drink and hold," like the other Jeff does.)

 

[Tom Blach]

I love this wine.

 

[Bwood]

originally posted by Tom Blach:
I love this wine.

Me, too.

The '99 and 2000 tasted like the purest, sweetest, bestest blueberries ever grown anywhere on release. A Cornasapotheosis. And now flinty, meaty, gunsmokey olives. Love it.