1/6/2024 - talbot61 Likes this wine:

My daughter was making Thai Green Curry Chicken, and my wife uncharacteristically agreed that a white wine would be appropriate but she specified that it not be 'odd,' and I selected this wine, because I thought it would go well with the Thai food, which it did, and because I was eager to drink it regardless, but we were surprised at the dark color of the wine, and my wife decided it was oxidized and pushed it aside, and when I explained that it was supposed to be like this and that it wasn't oxidized but orange, she said that was odd, which was precisely what she had said that she didn't want, so it was clear that I had failed as a husband and as a sommelier, but my guilt didn't last very long because she had made Manhattans before dinner, and so I could turn my attention back to the wine, which, the more I drank, the more I loved, for its structured weightiness and for the complex array of delicious flavors -- pear and strawberry and caramel and something herbal with a long grapefruit-rind aftertaste -- and though the suggestion of oxidation provided some confirmation of my belief that the Vie di Romans wines, like the Verget/Guffens-Heynen wines, have a huge payoff with a very narrow drinking window, I decided that I could increase my total happiness by ensuring that I have a small, steady flow of the Vie di Romans wines (and particularly this bottling) to drink four years after the vintage, harboring the faint, lingering hope that my pleasure will not be completely solitary if I can convince my wife that oddness is a virtue.