Wine Words

My husband, Boyd loves to describe how the wine tastes when we are imbibing. Sometimes he overuses a term or two like chewy and legs.

We went to Napa for our 27th wedding anniversary to tour the wineries. At the first winery I grabbed a mailing list card and a pen as we started tasting. We took the first sip and Boyd said, "robust." I wrote it down. My first mistake was telling him what I was doing. When I explained I was going to write down all the descriptive wine words he said on our trip, he may have been a little annoyed and was oddly quiet about the first few wines. I had to pry it out of him. It actually became quite hilarious by the end of the trip and six wineries later. Some quotes are from Boyd, some from me, some from our wine hosts. Enjoy, we did!

Black Stallion:

Robust

Thin

Not very pleasing

No taste

Smokey

Liquored up on the first four

Clos du Val:

It's vanilla!

Tannin finish

yeah

I prefer a wine you can pour and drink now

Folie a Deux/Napa Cellars:

Very drinkable

This is kinda growin' on me

Let's switch

But I haven't tasted it yet

I know that smell

This has cinnamon

A little spice

St. Supery's (Clearly we had too much wine by the time we got here):

Grapefruit

She looks professional

Fuller

Mouthier

Taste is still growing

It's awesome

Bolder

Let's switch

I haven't tasted it yet

As Randy Jackson would say, "It's all right dude."

It's awesome

Mark that one

Kicks it

Made for lamb chops

Something gamey

Hella good wine

I think when you quote Randy Jackson or describe wine as "hella good" you should stop tasting, but oh no, not us.

V. Suttui: We didn't wine taste here. We shopped for lunch in their deli and bought wine cork candles in their gift shop and then ate lunch on the lawn. We were in desperate need of food. Great cheeses and deli food there and a lovely area to eat your lunch in.

Franciscan:

Creamy

Sweet

Huh

Oh dear that's really good

Now she's snorting

I'm at a loss of words

Embraceable

Bastards (This is a very descriptive word for I have to buy this really expensive wine!)

I think we bought two bottles of wine at Franciscan. It wasn't even one of our planned stops. It put us way over budget.

We were done, the wineries were closing. We bought almost a case of wine. We had consumed too much wine, lunch, a bag of fritos and a can of bean dip and we had spent way too much money but we had a lot of fun in the process and made many people laugh at the wineries.