I Highly Recommend Vintage Cheateauneuf Du-Pape
I’m up late. Again.
It’s been a rough and busy week all around.
Wine has been my only friend:
I had a 2005 Chateauneuf du-pape (french for The Pope’s New Castle) that was very interesting and fun.
The thing about chateauneuf is that it’s a wine-drinker’s wine. Very earthy and complex. Don’t drink this if you’re used to drinking a grape juice like Rodney Strong Pinot or Sterling Vineyards-anything.
It comes in a heavy ornate bottle that when you first grab it, you think how it would be handy to have if someone tried to mug you. Seriously, while holding the bottle you keep imagining the “thunk”.
Chateauneuf is a strong and overbearing but it eventually wins you over— think of it like the first time you met your most obnoxious friend and how you couldn’t stand him and now it’s that obnoxiousness that endears you to him.
That friend is Chateauneuf. If you give it a chance, you will be friends forever.
A reviewer wrote here:
Yet as difficult as it can initially be to embrace, the ornery character of Châteauneuf makes it all the more rewarding when the lights finally go on. That aha! moment is like suddenly recognizing the beauty in one of Picasso’s women, and realizing that conventional notions can take you only so far.
In an article I read someone said that you can taste “The Barnyard” in a glass of chateauneuf, and you can! It does taste like it was grown on a farm or something. I’ve heard the earlier vintages are lovely. I’ve never had any Chateauneuf before 2003. If you have, please tell me how it is.
Any suggestions?
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this is the best wine review i’ve ever read:
http://mcsweeneys.net/links/wine/1.html
tannaz’s last blog post..overheard on the facebooks
I don’t know that I’d be particularly interested in tasting a “barnyard”
junkyard’s last blog post..PG Porn: Roadside Ass-sistance
Discussing wine was supposed to be the hallmark of overly complicating something to unnaturally extend the conversation about it. If the conversation about the wine was “This is good”…”yeah” it would be beer talk. So the intensive focus on the nuances of wine has launched a thousand ships and a few dozen magazines.
The reason that it is not the pinnacle of unnecessary complication is that I’ve heard people discussion the virtues of various brands of bottled water, and I think that’s going to be hard to beat.
A wine review on your site, makes me wonder if you have lost your misanthropic viewpoint. “Very earthy and complex” sounds more like a description of a middle
age hippie, than the usual right wing, humorous, brand of bullshit I am used to. Maybe I am just jealous because you never review any Vodka….
haha well sorry guys, i’ll get back to business as usual soon. Wine is good. It’s romantic. It’s interesting. Opening a bottle is like opening a present because you dont know what’s inside. Women like wine.
The commenter tannaz and I used to drink wine together a lot. It’s pretty much our main connective tissue— one night we went to a wine party. We had just started hanging out. It quickly became clear that it wasn’t a “serious” wine party. “Junkyard” was there too.
Some asian bitch with giant tits (named Isabelle, btw) sat on the table and the entire party— glasses, wine bottles, hopes, dreams, all came crashing down. I later kissed this clumsy isabelle at the standard hotel in downtown. After that she and I were friends and she helped me meet other babes, but none of them worked out. I sort of made sure of that because they weren’t serious wine drinkers.
The moral here is clear.
misanthropy today’s last blog post..Guy Who Threw A Shoe At President Bush
me and andy dated: if you can call it that. im not saying my name… but… he does like to drink wine; a lot. he’s great if u can get him out of his head and his life. im having a glass for you AF
this blog is about Misanthropy– and in this case wine, not about me. Dz, I don’t recognize your initials, but that doesn’t matter. I’ve seriously dated only a few women in my life— like under 5. If we drank wine some night that’s not dating, that’s called drinking wine. Don’t bring chateauneuf into all this pls.
Umm, yeah, even dating one women under 5 is too many Andy, you sick bastard.
ha ha! Maybe that’s why none of them liked wine.
Poor thing, never tasted a before 2003 Chateauneuf. I feel for you. Oldest I had was 1984, OH MY GAD!
When I was living in France we had tons of bottles of chateauneuf, we knew a guy who made a great one so we would go directly to the winery. When I got married that’s what we had for dinner.
It spoils your tongue for the rest of them all, especially the beaujolais who now taste like sand more than barnyard (great choice btw)
hey steph, if you could send me a bottle for all my hard work here i’d be very happy. email me for my address.