Wine Reviews for All

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Simple thrills are here to stay, people. And in my experience, the greatest simple thrill of all is wine. Here are some reviews of some of my favorite wines I’ve had the pleasure of tasting. I hope you find it informative.

Domaine de Montbourgeau: A white wine that could clean a penny. Perfect for the end of the meal when all you want to do is slink a little lower in the booth while letting your talking get a little quicker and your secrets a little easier to give away. Sip it like Muhammad Ali is boxing it into your mouth.

Disclaimer: First of all, I was anti-apple-infused wines because I think cider is disgusting and was expecting everything I love about the wine to be bullied into submission by the cider. But this bottle was a gift, and I opened it because the color was incredible and I didn’t read the back to see what it even was I was bout to drink. And I’m so glad I did. My review:

Flrx x Nuki Apple Grape Wine: One night when I was a teenager and there was no moon I went skinny dipping with my friends in a remote fjord in British Columbia. From the dock the water might have been 3,000 feet deep, and above us was an eternity of space broken up by more stars than I’ve ever seen in any sky since. My clothes were at my feet and there was nothing in my way of the dark sea but a few feet of cool, dark air. I plunged in headfirst and found myself in a wash of phosphorescence. Diving down as long as my lungs let me, it felt like I had finally reached the stars. We floated out there feeling a total collapse of up and down, where we could create light by just moving our limbs through the cold Canadian water. In that darkness, everything sparkled.

Most sparkling red wines feel like they’re faking it to me. But if I could go back in time and put a sparkling red wine on the dock for us all to share right out of the bottle that night, I would choose this one. Drink it cold. Drink it in the dark. Drink it with close friends and enjoy all the sparkling.