Badin vs. Fredericktown
Miamisburg graduation 2012
Valley View vs. Greenville
Home > Blogs > Uncorked > Archives > 2005 > December > 07
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Wine Blog Wednesday: Judge a Wine By Its Cover
First, if you’re looking for the “Trader Joe’s Wine-Buying Experience� post and accompanying comments, or the post about the Wine Spectator Cadillac-sponsored Top 100 Wines of 2005, simply click on the links in this sentence.
But it’s “Wine Blog Wednesdsay,� when wine bloggers from around the country and beyond pick a theme, choose a wine and review it. This month’s eclectic theme: “Judge a Wine By Its Cover,� in which we were asked to pick out a wine with a pretty label and check it out.
So I did just that, a wine that just showed up on the shelf in recent weeks here in Dayton, Ohio:
Lulu B. 2004 Syrah (Vin de Pays D’Oc), $8.39 Ohio retail:
This creative label is apparently the brainchild of French vigneron Louis Bernard, leader of a Rhone-based negotiant/winemaking cooperative who informs us on the back label that Lulu B. is his daughter. “After studying in France, Lulu …
…toured the world’s wine regions and has now returned home to the family estate. Inspired by tradition and innovation, Lulu B. created this wine with you in mind.”
She also apparently created a pinot noir and chardonnay with just me in mind too. Very considerate of her.
The syrah has impressively deep color and a nose of gamay-like candy-apple and fruit-cocktail fruit. In the mouth, it delivers jammy fruit and sufficient acidity, followed by a slight medicinal note on the finish. All in all, this is a well-priced and satisfying quaffer.
Just one nagging question about the artsy label: how DO French women fit their feet into those tiny little shoes?
Derrick at the “An Obsession with Food (and Wine)� blog is hosting this month’s Wine Blog Wednesday and will be posting a roundup at his site sometime this weekend, he tells me in a comment posted below. Check his site to find out what other wild labels bloggers found.
Cheers!
Mark Fisher Uncorked www.daytondailynews.com/wineblog
(Photo by Jim Witmer)
TweetGo to my facebook page and click Like to comment.
