Tomorrow on Winehiker Witiculture: Just Seven Words
I don’t seem to have a lot of time to write a lot of blogwords lately, so this month’s Wine Blogging Wednesday assignment appeals to me. It might have appealed to me anyway, seeing as how I fundamentally love the mental challenge of wordcraft.
This month’s assignment? Describe an Italian red wine in just seven words.
Our host this month for Wine Blogging Wednesday is Andrew Barrow, author of the Spittoon blog, based in Wallingford, England. Writes Andrew:
The theme for Wine Blogging Wednesday #42 is Just Seven Words. The wine should be an Italian Red. It matters little really for this exercise what type; but try and find something new, interesting and thought-provoking. And get that thesaurus out!
JUST SEVEN WORDS. The finished tasting note must make sense, be grammatically correct(ish), punctuation will help of course. The wine name, type, producer, vintage do not have to be included in the 7. But a reference to aroma, flavour, length, food matching etc etc should be considered. Inventiveness is the key.
Inventiveness? I think I can do it. Grammatically correct(ish)? Well, OK – if I must. But golly, how will I condense my tasting notes into such a short passage and still offer something tangible and worth reading, something that will make you also want to try the wine? It may take a few glasses to find out. But that’s OK – I simply love il mio rosso di vino.
First I’ll have to pour the wine, which I’ll do tonight. I uncorked it this morning; after all, the wine is a Barolo, a.k.a. the King of Wines, the Wine of Kings, and it requires such deference. Tomorrow’s post will describe it in Just Seven Words.
[Editor's note: I paid $37.99 at BevMo for the 2000 Boroli Barolo I reviewed; my Just Seven Words post is available here.]
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