Last week over on the Brokewino Facebook page I asked the question: What was your most memorable wine in the last year? Some great wines were named to contend for the title: ’59 Mouton-Rothschild, Chronic Cellars, Amulet Cabernet, and even a barley wine from Tibet. People been drinking some wyne this year!
Rick from Hello Vino saw the conversation and asked me to write a piece on the same subject for their blog, but with a focus on the experience of wine, and why that can make such a lasting impression on you beyond just the label. I thought that this was a really cool angle, too, and I consulted the Muses, offered them some vino, and this is what came out:
A watermelon should be on every flag of every state in the south. It’s ubiquitous, delicious, and a symbol of picnics, revelry — and if you ever soaked it in vodka overnight in the fridge — textbook bacchanalia (except with grain liquor, minor technicality.)
I sort of grew up in the south, and almost anytime a watermelon showed up at a picnic, all of us kids were challenging each other to atavistic contests almost immediately. It didn’t even matter if you even knew the other family or not, the lust for watermelon and pure red-blooded American competition was the common denominator…
Check out the rest of the post over on the Hello Vino blog, and leave a comment to tell us what your most memorable wine of the year 2010 was.
