A thing, from a place

[Sharon Bowman]

I am departing ten days of horrid head cold.

Cooking up a storm today for self (heirloom Cornish hen roasted, gratin of potatoes with hedgehog mushrooms, other sundry whatnot), I decided to open wine.

I bought this from Chambers St.

2013 Enfield Wine Co. Coryelle Fields Syrah, Fort Ross-Seaview, Sonoma County

I don't know anything about it and I was too busy multitasking to look anything up. I had envisioned Fort Ross-Seaview as a window onto a cold, misty world, a world of times past, a world of... OK, I'm mixing this as quickly as I can.

But it didn't speak to me (yet?).

Anyone had these wines of Enfield?

Far afield, perhaps a fairy ring can sprout.

 

[Steve Edmunds]

I've been hearing really nice things about their wines, but haven't tried yet. I think Jim Cowan had something he thought highly of.

 

[Florida Jim]

Had a few - liked them but not enough to buy them.
Among those who know the wines well, I hear much more enthusiasm.
And John Lockwood is a treasure.
Best, Jim

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Not much out there that is very specific. Even on the Enfield website the description of the vineyard discusses only Bordeaux varities. But there is one blurb, about 2/3 of the way down the page, and, of course, Maestro Dalton put a microphone in front of Lockwood just recently.

 

[Rahsaan]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman...ten days of horrid head cold.

Sorry to hear. Inevitable but also one of the more annoying things in this wine appreciation business.

...I decided to open wine.

You say that as if it were an incidental action and not something long-awaited during the depths of the head cold!

 

[Sharon Bowman]

originally posted by Rahsaan:

...I decided to open wine.

You say that as if it were an incidental action and not something long-awaited during the depths of the head cold!

I don't know, it's weird, right? Along with not having all of my sensory functions, I also kind of unplugged of that as an option and didn't consider or pine for it. Am I a Darwinian success? Or was I just listless?