#durif

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Le sentiment du temps avait subi la même altération que le sentiment de l’espace ; ce ruban d’eau courante, cet escalier roulant avec son sinistre arrière-plan de mort semblait souvent s’immobiliser, et souvent s’écouler sans aucun lien avec le reste. Il suffisait d’un instant de la vie extérieure pour qu’il disparût intérieurement sans qu’aucune trace permît de déceler s’il s’était agi d’une heure ou d’une minute. Robert Musil, L’Homme sans qualités, Éditions du Seuil, 1956

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Pet Project

An interesting blend–and one I’m not angry about at all. Ridiculous black staining purple, a nose clean and unslutty, with smoky meat and light vegetal plastered heavy over dense black cherry and candied plum. It FEELS like PS and TASTES like PS, but there’s a peppery bit of anger residing inside turning everything up to 11. A fairly low-intervention and moderate-alcohol winery in Paso…

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Up a Creek

This is some black-ass purple grainy shit, man. Completely impenetrable in the glass, a nose slow and dull in showing any sort of beauty–decanted heavily. Nice to see “Durif” on a label outside Wagner-Suisun–a true nod to the pre-historic edges of wine-production. Concentrated leathery bouquet gradually exposes itself, but mono-characteristic and flat. You can SMELL the vitality, but it doesn’t…

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Bar None

The purple florescent glow of ridiculously-staining Mendo PS in unmistakable. The heady floral velvet is trademark, and the raspy, grating mineralific dust classic in depth and character. Glycerine body soothes all ills while pungent spice inflames receptors with aplomb. This is a stupidly-delicious wine–I don’t even need to taste it. Fruit explodes into cat’s-tongue texture all over the palate.…

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Petite Sirah 2020 de L.A. Cetto | Baja California, México En esta oportunidad quiero felicitar a @vinoslacetto por este ejemplar y por todos los que pude probar. Excelente relación precio/calidad. Mi admiración para los productos de esta bodega. Es importante aclarar que el #PetiteSirah es un varietal también conocida como #Durif. El termino Petite, viene del tamaño de la uva. Desciende de vides de Peloursin y Syrah, que fueron cruzadas accidentalmente en el invernadero de Francois Durif en la década de 1860, en Francia. Más precisamente en Vallée du Rhone. Pero que le siente muy bien Baja California. Este #vino pertenece a la Línea Clásica de la bodega no posee crianza en barrica, lo que a la vista ostenta en copa con un color rubí con tonos violáceos. Posee una intensidad aromática explosiva que recuerdan a moras y ciruelas, en un escalón más abajo aromas herbáceos y de chocolate. En boca es muy agradable, taninos suaves y equilibrados. Un vino ideal para disfrutarlo mientras preparas un buen #AsadoArgentino o #CarnitasAsadas #winelover #wineaddict #wineblogger #wineenthusiast #wineporn #wineoclock #winetime #winelife #wineinstagram #instawine #wine #winetasting #winecountry #wineblog #winephotographer #winegram #bajacalifornia #winephoto #winewinewine #vive_mexico #vinomexicano #mexicowine #mexicanosxelvino #redwine #bottlewine (en Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfw0VSQJyfL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The Tide is In

Petite Sirah is such a funny grape. Instilling vague reactions of “Huh?” in many, “Meh… whatever” in others and yet several producers in California dedicating basically their entire production to its honor. My deep affection for this variety goes back several decades to teeth-cutting years with Contra Costa County, Clarksburg, Mendocino and the Sierra Foothills, where it carved an un-healing…

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Ruby-esque

Dull, chubby nose of rotten fruit and dirty motor oil. Pruney-thick in bouquet and impenetrable black maroon to the eye. The minuscule rim shows basically no clear, but not bricking. Flaccid and cloyingly sweet, it is not maderized, but one-dimensional, with any aspiration toward complexity buried behind rubenesque curves. Tasting it puts dry, chalky imprints of varietal-correctness against a…

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