Wine Blogging Wednesday is inspiring this month. Just seven words is the host request. It is hard to write with constraint. Try though, I have, with varying success.
Phew, there you have it—four sentences comprised of seven words. Bless the poet who can write like that in rhyming couplets.
Now, I just need to do a couple more sentences with actual wine descriptions. I am beginning to wonder if Andrew created this challenge as some sort of antagonistic vehicle for the most verbose and flowery of the wine bloggers—truly, I am a man of carefully chosen spoken words, but abundant diarrhea of the pen. Therefore, I find the “Just Seven Words” combined with an Italian red to be a bit anachronistic given that, in my minds eye, Italy is the last bastion of Old World de-stressed, non hustle and bustle. So, compressing something like a wine review into such a short amount of words is something of an oxymoron. We should all be writing 500 words of linguistic masturbation.
That said, I have reviewed two nice Italian red wines. The first is the 2004 Morgante Nero D’Avola (about $17). I did two notes for this one—it is like a choose your own adventure wine review, if you do not like the first one, you can go with the second one …
While Funky on the Nose, it’s Delicious
Or
Cherry Trees in Tobacco Field by Barnyard
The second wine is the 2004 Umbria, IGT, Ca’ Andrea, Carlo Massimiliano Gritti (about $17). Likewise, I did two notes for this one, as well.
Bitingly Racy with Earthy Ripe Red Fruit
Or
Vintner Makes Production Wine that Tastes Small
Overall, a fun and engaging Wine Blogging Wednesday. Thanks Andrew!