Concha y Toro Winemaker’s Lot 102T 2006
Why keep an online diary? I am not Samuel Pepys. I don’t have a burning desire to share my (albeit valuable) thoughts with the world. I have no reason to create an alibi, or lay a false trail for the police. I don’t have much spare time in my life, so I have to write quickly and from the gut (well, bladder to be precise). So why do I do it?
The answer is as simple as the various thoughts that meander through my sponge-like brain. I am exploring the world of wine and I wanted to keep a record for myself because my memory is patchy. But even I would be bored by reading bland tasting notes, or wine ratings (no, no, no, no, no, please, wine is subjective!). So I wrap my thoughts in inane claptrap…for some reason. And I know it’s bad form, but when I do look back at my various posts, I sometimes laugh at my own jokes (someone has to). Above all I recall happy things that simply would have fallen through my colandar like memory otherwise.
The imaginatively titled “102T” is not a name likely to hang around my hippocampus. It came from the Chilean Pinot Noir case I ordered from the Wine Society for about £82 recently.
To call it 102T is of course unfair, since its full title is the equally memorable Concha y Toro Winemakers Lot 102T Pinot Noir El Triangulo Vineyard, Casablanca Valley 2006.
Any road up, I found it quite Burgundinian in smell and first flavour but at 14.5% alcohol, much more of a blockbuster style. Strawberries and cigar tobacco prevailed with some burnt meringue (much nicer than it sounds) coming through later in the bottle.
I am generally impressed by Concha y Toro, and in a wider sense, I am ever more impressed by wines from Chile. This one is no exception. I remember the disgusting and cheap Chilean wines from the 1980s. As we race towards the two thousand and tens, the only common point is that they are still cheap.
I am exploring a number of Pinot Noirs from around the world at the moment and finding that the range of tastes and styles is so much wider than I thought. This is a happy journey and one that is worth recording for posterity.
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:31 am
So, what shape is the vineyard?
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:41 am
I’ve always wanted to ask. Is there a plan behind the location of the photos you take? It is great to see the bottle, but we also get a ‘voyeuristic’ glimpse of your home and family life with backgrounds of garages, balconies, tables, shelves, etc. I just wondered what inspires the location?
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:22 am
LOL
I thought you would appreciate a backdrop of my garage door and a lawn scarifier! I’ve just noticed my mower is missing – must have been in for service.
There was once a plan to find a different and random object to appear in every photo but I am a simple man and quickly ran out of interesting items. So I simply try to vary the backdrop. Life is so interesting and so big that you can never run out of things to say, do, or photograph!
I think a psychologist could make hay analysing my random brain from this weblog.
As to vineyard shapes – Spanish is not one of my languages, in so far as what triangulo means I am going to plump for dodecagonal…..for some reason.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:59 am
Bravo,
Another excellent read and another curious photo! I always think of my blog as therapy and a way of purging my brain of odd ideas and ruminations. Best not to let too many strange ideas brew in a confined space. . .