By way of explanation, the other night we were getting ready to sit down to dinner, and I wanted to open something a little extra special. I grabbed our last bottle of 2002 Kunde Estate Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Sonoma County (more on that later).
After pulling a certain (large) number of corks, I give as much thought to it as I would to popping the top off a beer. Even when the cork broke in half, I wasn't concerned. I can extract half a cork almost as smoothly.
When the remainder of the cork disintegrated, profanities were uttered.
As you can see, the story has a happy ending. You just never know when those hemostats are going to come in handy.
We've enjoyed several bottles of this wine. We've enjoyed it even more because we paid $9.99, less a 10 percent mixed case discount. K&L is selling it for $29.99. How did Green's come to have a few bottles stashed away for select customers at a ridiculously low price? I didn't ask.
It's a compelling reason to be really, really nice to your local wine merchant.
I've tried to curtail the gushing about wine, but this is a wine worth gushing about. It's lush and modestly ripe with flavors/aromas of anise, mint, cassis and dried cherry, along with perfectly integrated tannins, soft acidity and a long, decadent finish. I would have gladly paid 30 bucks for it.
2 comments:
Wow! Persistence can reallly pay off.. .nice work with the forcips (or hemo-whats?).
Sorry you had to go through the pain, but hopefully the results were worth it.
Cheers!
Ed (Kunde Estate)
Thanks for visiting, Ed. It was more than worth the effort. That is a lovely bottle of wine.
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