Last Night's Bottle - A sequel to last week's 90+ post

I forgot to mention that I picked up a second bottle of 90+ on last week's trip to the Alcohol Store.  Only this time it was the Pinot Noir instead of the Cab.  After sharing such a wonderfully inebriated view of the last bottle, I was hoping to channel a little more of that same magic.

Let's start with this.  The Cabernet was the better of the two buys.  Stop reading now if you care not to read my usual rambling about yet another bottle of red wine.  Should you choose to read on, you won't regret my use of fancy descriptive terms like earthy, fleshy & melange.  (Melange is pronounced with a heavy French accent while wearing a beret & smoking a long filtered cigarette. *Striped shirt optional).  Like a bohemian after 2 or 3 Red Bull. If you made sense of that, give yourself +2.

The Pinot was without a doubt consistently thinner than the cab but obviously a direct result of the variety of grape.  It has a certain earthinesss to it.  Coupled with scents of rose & cranberry.  All of which were nice & light.

The taste was fleshy & clean on the palate. Jammy with a subtle tartness.  Cranberry & apple mixed with plum.  It was a potpourri melange of fruit flavor.  Not overwhelming, but apparent.

With that, I share with you this.  The 90+ does a pretty good wine for the price.  It improves your use & pronunciation of French sounding words, it goes down easy on the palate assuming you find it for under $20/bottle.  The Cabernet beats the Pinot in 1 out of 2 taste tests, but in either instance I don't feel as if you will be overly disappointed.

Jusqu'à la prochaine fois. (I google translated that last part).

Cheers,
ES