Lovely peach and citrus notes with a creamy, textured mouthful, lively acidity and a long stony finish. It went exquisitely well with the complex flavors of the Indian dishes we had. Fabulous wine. But the only spoiler and what will keep me from buying this wine again was how much of an ordeal it was to open the damn bottle.
Now we know the old trick. The worm went fine into the cork but the problem came when I tried to use the hinge to pull it out.
The teeth of the hinge kept slipping and failing to get a good grip on the lip. And when we did get something of a grip, it was tough getting sufficient leverage to get the cork apparently a dense agglomerate as an MW informed me through the wax. Both my wife and I made several attempts, trying with both hinges from different angles, as evidence by the skid marks.
We eventually overcame our nemesis by chipping away at the top of the wax. Only after 10 minutes and while our food was getting cold. But, hey, as Master of Wine Greg Sherwood whose fascinating review of this wine actually prompted me to seek it out noted, no pain, no gain.
I get the good humor you're trying to convey, but seriously Greg, is it smart from a business sense as an industry to expect consumers to have to go through some "pain" in order to gain the "privilege" of drinking our products? Why do we expect consumers to tolerate this?
