2010 Verdelho
$19 Regular Price / $15.20 Twisted Few Price
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"a ballerina in steel-toed boots." - San Francisco Chronicle.
Here is a little wine you’ll want to stand back and take a long look at – because if you get any closer you’ll singe the hair out of the inside of your nose. Crisp aromas of fetid swamp clash mightily with rotting wood and a playful kerosene note. It has a lovely acidity that is best paired with calcium deposits in your bathtub. A long satisfying finish in the form of chemical burns down the inside of your esophagus rounds out this honey of a wine. (Sigh. This is the last time we let Uncle Fester write tasting notes...)
Wine Specs
Vintage
2010
Varietal
Verdelho
Appellation
Calaveras County
Barrel Aging
5 months in American stainless steel
Wine Profile
Tasting Notes
Mandrake? You listening? Purity of Essence. That’s what this Verdelho
has. You’ll never catch a Commie drinking this Verdelho. Why, Mandrake?
Because it’s full of exotic tropical aromas of pears, lemons, and lilac.
And, it is bursting with crisp, fresh fruit flavors of apricots and green
apples. Mandrake, this is the purest expression of fruit from a vineyard
as you will ever taste. Drink it now, like a man!”
Vineyard Notes
100% Verdelho from Dragone Ranch, Baby!
Food Pairing Notes
By itself!
as an aperitif - clam chowder
oysters and other aphrodisiacs - Spanish and Asian foods
Larry Chandler
I can't order this wine because I live in the mythical kingdom of Utah, long ruled by unicorns (or some other creatures also with pointy heads). However, Verdelho is an absolutely delicious variety of white wine and if it's made as well as Twisted Oak's other wines it will be simply gorgeous and rank extremely high on the deliciousness(tm) scale.(Mar 12, 2011 at 11:40 AM)