Q: How many grape varieties does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They’re grapes!!
My point exactly. But it does raise the question of how many varieties can make up a wine before any of them deliver the ‘wow’ factor. Seems that it doesn’t matter, and that’s fine with me all in all – literally with this wine. The Spinifex Barossa Valley Lola 2011 is a blend of Ugni Blanc (or Trebbiano), Semillon, Marsanne and Viognier. Seriously, they must really have been thinking that day, ‘what the hell!’ Thing is though, they made a pretty schmick wine.
Very nectarine on the nose, the wine follows suit in the mouth with more stone fruit, this time in the guise of white peach and a tickle of glycerol. My only beef though is that it is rather quick, but on a hot day like today wines like this are not going to have a long life span once the seal is broken.
Drink till 2014
Drink with BBQ squid
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Many really good wines are blends but consumers are conditioned to think that straight varietal wines are somehow superior. This misconception comes from the practice of naming wines after the variety, a decision made in the 1970s that unfortunately will be with us forever.
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