For a cheap wine, only 8,05€ in Alko, this delivered great pleasure. Some cherry tartness in the aroma, but ripe and sweet, too. Good concentration and ripeness but good acidity and some proper tannic crunch. No oak. And screwcapped!
I think I have to buy more.The we tried making baklava for the first time. I think we did OK, though we did have a bit of trouble getting our sugar into a syrupy consistency (any tips? less water, I guess). And we used too much lemon juice, though maybe that wasn't a bad thing as baklava often could use a bit of something acidic to lighten it a bit...
And of course some Port since my Port-loving friend was over, Graham's Crusted bottled 2001, which was very nice. Dark fruit tones rather than the more red, strawberry like aromas of Graham's VP. Still very primary, it doesn't seem to have budged since I last tasted this two years ago. Very sweet as the house style tends to be. Nice stuff, but I would give it more age.