The wine for the night was a 2005 Twisted Oak Sierra Foothills %@#$!. I purchased the wine in a club shipment from WineQ for $23.99(with free shipping!). It's a Rhone style blend made of 58% Roussanne and 42% Marsanne. The wine clocked in at 14.1% alcohol by volume and had a real cork closure. Many more Twisted things will be showing up at the Wannabe Wino house in the near future, as I was a very good Wino this year and Santa brought me a Twisted Few membership for Christmas!I first noted the color on the wine, it was deep golden straw color. On the nose I found honey, a buttery note, sweet fruit, nectarines, and pears. In the mouth the flavors were pears and nectarines, with a but of butter and cream. This was a very different wine, I've had both Roussanne and Marsanne as stand alone bottles, but never as a blend before. I found it to be very interesting, and it had a great long finish.
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Fun title. Quite appropriate for such a fun winery.
1/23/08, 4:29 PM
I keep staring at that %@#$! in my wine rack, and someday I'm going to crack that %@#$!.
Well %@#$!, now that I've read your post, maybe that day is today! :)
1/23/08, 6:58 PM
Thanks Farley! I'm so excited about my new Twisted membership!
Winehiker, break that %@#$! out!
1/23/08, 10:10 PM