(WordPress ate my first attempt at this post. I hope this version works at least as well)
I was in the mood to try something new and write about it, so I decided to grab the new Fox Creek Short Row that I had sitting around in the fridge. I have been impressed by many of their offerings in the past, and the notion that this was a special wine made me curious. Note to wine marketers – annotating your wine with some manner of exclusivity is sure to hook me. Say that the wine came from grapes that are only on a certain hill, or only picked on Wednesdays, or have some other special hook, and I will want to try it. I think that I fall for this because this strategy has always pleased me in the past, but who knows how much bias is in that unscientific assessment….
However unscientific it is, it just got stronger for me because the Short Row is amazing. Loads of black fruit, sugar, alcohol and a minerally flavour, with a hint of pepper and a perfect finish. The balance is great – this is not a subtle wine, but all of the unsubtle flavours are the ones I love, so this is a pleasure to drink. The aroma is impossible to miss when you pour the stuff – very much the same kind of style as the Euroa Creeks and the Pastor Fritz, making me wish that I had way more of the stuff.
One of these days I will be good enough at tasting wine that I will be able to catalog what I love about this stuff and look through wine reviews to find other similar wines. I certainly like styles other than this one (the GAM was just as nice for me, but a completely different style), but I don’t find enough of this style for my liking and considering most of the wine of this genre is about $20 a bottle, it makes sense to get loads of it and drink it every day.
