I can get very introspective when I think/taste/ponder our Petit Verdot. Mind you, Petit Verdot is not--in and of itself--a very introspective wine. In fact, it's quite the opposite. Petit Verdot is like the loud American crashing a French dinner party. Sure, you're curious about him--and there's something about his charisma--but ultimately he's still loud. Petit Verdot makes me think. Deeply. When I was a young winemaker, I tasted wines with Cabernet Sauvignon at their core--thanks, John!--and I was mesmerized. It's not the same intoxicating infatuation one gets from Burgundy--Pinot Noir--but rather a synthesis of an analytic dialectic as it confronts the unquestionable mystery of sensorial apperception. Years ago, when I asked my friend John--best intuitive winemaker I ever knew--how to compose the best wine he knew from this small place in Brogue, he responded with 75% Cabernet Sauvignon/15% Merlot/10% Cabernet Franc....and (if he allowed himself the lu
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