2013 Lagvinari Tsolikouri--Orange Wine from Ancient Caucasus Vines
So, I haven’t been this excited about wine in a while, as my tasting notes will atest. It is orange, it is unfiltered, it is ridiculously drinkable and I recommend the serving size read: 1 bottle. Hangover ratio: none. Price: I was drunk when I bought it, so I want to say $40?
Here are my tasting notes:
7:16 pm: It’s psychological perhaps, but all the notes are the hues and shades of orange. Not only the Penny-copper blood juice of citrus found in Old Fashioneds, but of the distilled powers of Hekate, maybe? The flavors of flame and sulphuric dust of Hades. For the vines are ancient, and primordial in the mythology of wine. And the taste of old magic, eternal fruits, gold and sun ray polls of this wine makes it an alchemical treasure, the blood of the salamander and the sweat of the ourobus are squeezed and stomped into this elixir vitae.
7:24 pm: Hail Lagvinari! For she goes down like water.
7:38 pm: With a hint of listerine?
7:39 pm: And retrosexual cologne?
8:52 pm: Orange wine is definitely fucking divine.