Cakey Wine, what could be better?
Layer Cake Malbec wine, that is… This is supposed to be a wine blog, after all. My most sincere apologies for not updating in many a moon. I’ve been traveling- I have a Sauvignon to blog about, a bottle of Sake and a few others up my sleeve before my BIG TRIP to Italy, which I’ll also be posting about. Early and often, I hope. In any event, I’m going to start with my review of the Layer Cake 2008 Malbec, which I sincerely enjoyed!
It all started so innocently.
Well, sort of "innocently"....
Friday night we decided to do a bit of a wine tasting. I thought we’d compare a little: 2 Pinot Grigios, 2 Malbecs and 2 random reds …. for 6 of us. Not surprisingly, we ended up with 10 bottles for the seven of us, which landed us at The Burren at midnight showing off our temporary tattoos… What can I say? We’re a classy crew. I asked this crew to help me write the blog entry for these wines… lucky for you? Actually happened. I am going to share with you their “thoughts” on the wines we tasted. But what you need to know first, is that these “thoughts” came together collaboratively, drunkenly, towards the latter part in the evening. It was really a beautiful thing, but the poems (yes, poems) make just slightly less sense now, assuming you’re sober as you read this. Continue reading
Julia Uncorked 