TN: ESJ 2001 Bassetti

[Jeff Grossman]

So, who do I talk to about the crappy cork in this bottle? Sheesh. Came out in a zillion pieces, well, a zillion minus a jillion that went into the wine. Rolhas de perdição.

Oh. I'm writing in public. Ahem.

God, this wine is wonderful. How can I describe it? Tangy, plummy, a whiff of leather and game and strawberries, a teeny lifted note (actual VA or just alcohol?). It's been open for three hours and non-stop lovely. I had intended to put half away but that's not going to happen. There's a late-arriving, lingering, fascinating note of marzipan and roses.

This is why to drink wine.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
TN: ESJ 2001 BassettiRolhas de perdição.

Such poetry!

 

[Rahsaan]

Nice. I remember enjoying the 01, 03 and 05 when they came out, each for their own pleasures. But as a man of limited space I ended up only focusing on 05. All the better for those with broader reach.

 

[scottreiner]

the wines start out lovely and only get better

 

[Steve Edmunds]

just watch out for the fucking corks!

 

[scottreiner]

cork suckers

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
TN: ESJ 2001 BassettiRolhas de perdição.

Such poetry!

My friends at Google Translate made their best effort to render my actual utterance into something a Portuguese search engine might find.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

Corks of perdition far more fetching than Damn corks.

 

[kirk wallace]

but "stoppers of perdition" isn't.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

Or enclosures of perdition.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

But it's a fresh hell.