$5.99 from Trader Joes.
I had read somehting during the last week that really made me want to try some Muscadet. The whole concept of broken glass on the mouth really appealed to me. So I went down to TJ's and found the cheapest one I could find. Heres the review:
Pale straw hue. Crisp granny smith apple nose. Lemony, minerally mouth with sharp acidity. Crisp, bright finish. Very refreshing, albeit slightl one dimensional. 7/10
Go buy some if you have the same curiosity I did. I think I'm going to search for something in the $8-12 range next time.
On another note... I was thinking today as I took a stroll with my family about how my palate has changed and evolved over the course of my wine drinking career. I used to only care for fruit forward zinfandels and off-dry reislings, everything else seemed kind of blah for what ever reason. It was a random surf trip to the central coast in 2005 that really sparked my interest in some of the different varietals available to me. I remember visiting Domaine Alfred because it was organic and trying a few of their Califa Pinot Noir's that were unlike anything I'd ever tasted. I also remember visiting Turley and trying some sort of Viognier based blend which truly blew my mind. I think we bought the bottle for $36, making it the most expensive bottle of wine I'd ever purchased. Sometimes I can look back to that summer just 5 years ago and think that in some ways it was so much simpler to be impressed by something different. I was like a newborn child thrust into a world of sensation that was very foreign in comparison to where I had spent the preceding portion of my life. Now, some of the wonderment and amazingness has subsided, yet my love for wine had grown stronger. How can that be? I believe it stems from my desire to find a wine experience which can recreate the magic of some of those initial experiences.
While I do have considerable more knowledge and experience in wine just a few years later, I am still essentially in preschool or kindergarten compared to many people who have spent a lifetime cultivating their own experiences in the world of wine. I started this blog to share my experiences and occasionally wax poetic about a subject that had come to take such a important part of my life. I hope that you the reader can enjoy my meanderings as much as I do writing them and I hope to continue to be amazed by wine and all that it offers.
