PRESENT WERE: Uncles Piroca, Jimmy, Winepath and E; Uncle N was conspicuously absent. Only the first (the one you see here) of three wines was tasted blindly. There was soft cheese, bread and figs & almond torte-to add fiber to our constipating diets.
This wine was accused of being a dark, new world syrah or syrah /cabernet. Had a purplish-blue tinge; Taste of cedar, pepper, cigarette ash (uncle E comes up with some good ones!) with a rather short finish (Uncle P).
But muhahaha!!-IT IS A MERLOT! (with some minor other varietals) Brought in by the clever Uncle Winepath: Casa Apostolle, Merlot 2005, from the famous Chilean Apalta Vineyard. It is a 2+. It got better within 1/2 hour of opening.
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