1991 Bonny Doon Vineyard Vin de Glacière

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  2/28/2009 - baroloboy55 wrote: 91 Points

  We had bought a mixed case of wines, ice wines, and grappa when we visited the Bonny Doon winery a million years ago. Can't quite place the date. I keep a number of miscellaneous 375s of stickies in the vegetable drawer in the old fridge in our basement. The fridge went up a few weeks ago (and I won't detail how it took us nearly a week to determine that we had rotting bison in the basement) but the wines were rescued.
  
  We brought this to a dinner last night on a lark, and decided to pour after the generous host served a Banyuls with a yummy flourless chocolate cake. We were very pleased. The wine had turned a maderized brown color, but the wine itself was in remarkable shape. Nutty but with a range of dried orange, blood orange, and tangerine notes in beautiful harmony. Blind, I'd have said this was a pretty fine madeira. The label indicated the wine was grenache made from frozen grapes, and ice wine, with just over 19 grams of residual sugar and alcohol just over 10 percent. I'd have guessed a bit less sugar and a bit more alcohol
  
  This was a very fine end to a beautiful dinner and could have held its own with some pretty good stickies from the old world. I'm not going to go out and try to re-stock, but it was another one of those wonderful surprises you get from having accumulated too much wine over too long a period.

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