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Friday, December 02, 2005
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My Woot wine finally came yesterday! The wine is called Rifrescante, and it was a half case; I split the 6 bottles with 2 coworkers, leaving 2 bottles for me. :-D
Here's the blend:
Vintage 2000
42% Sangiovese
27% Cabernet Sauvignon
26% Merlot
5% Cabernet Franc
Here's the description from the back of the bottle:
Once in a millennium, a wine dribbles upon us from beyond the heavens, it’s transcendent relish forever blinding our palates with its perspicuous brilliance. This approachable, insouciant wine drapes itself in satiny robes of oak and vanilla, with a cherry brooch, pendulous berry earrings, and a regal tiara of finest juniper.
Like a viticultural geisha, it trades light, airy repartee with any meal, gently teasing red meat or whispering the latest rumors to fish and poultry. With a rich garnet color and a stouthearted but fastidious mien, it gracefully shadowboxes your perceptions and urgently prods your appetite. Also, you can shoot bottle rockets out of it when you’re done.
This particular bottle of Rinfrescante you’re holding is the best bottle from the best case from the best barrel of the finest mega-wine ever sold in the Western Hemisphere. A bottle of our wine grants you instant cred in the wine snob scene – that’s the Rinfrescante promise.
Produced and bottled by: Woot Cellars, Sonoma, CA
What's the you say? $12.50/bottle for a totally unknown wine which may or may not be good? Well, some of the people on the Woot message boards found out which wine had been repackaged:
2000 Santerra Rosso from Vianza Winery, Sonoma, CA
Perhaps the joy of this is lost on those of you who either do not enjoy wine and/or those of you not in the Woot obsession. But I'm happy to get it, and can't wait to try it. Not to mention I waited more than 3 weeks for it to arrive.
Ithaca this weekend, so no pictures until Monday most likely, but maybe there will be pictures with people in them! :-)
- Lizzardie, at 11:16 AM
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