WTN: Liter of the pack

Matthiasson 2015 California Red Wine, Windmill Vineyard, "Tendu." Sold in a clear one-liter bottle with a crown cap (but no jug-style finger-hole). I think the declared ABV was 11.5%; not sure where Windmill is, but the wine is just sold as "California"; the grapes apparently include Aglianico, Barbera, and Montepulciano. A slightly deeper color than cranberry juice, this wine is a mouthful of tangy strawberries laced with black pepper; so fresh and fruity -- though not exactly grapey, interestingly -- that one thinks it might be partly carbonic. Zingy and delicious and a pretty fair deal at $22 for the liter.

[David M. Bueker]

Cool. I had not heard about that bottling.

Meg Maker did a tasting at Matthiasson not long ago. She has some notes up on her site.

http://makerstable.com/

Thanks -- and thanks for the reminder about her site, which I keep forgetting to check in on as regularly as I ought to. Too bad Matthiasson's Schioppetino appears to be club only; that'd be fun to try.

[David M. Bueker]

I had a bottle it was good but not revelatory.

That is a perfect pun. Bravo, doubly so for a non-native speaker.

[Jenise]

Yeah, great title.

a non-native speaker.

???? Who are we talking about here???

Maybe Walt was thrown off by my Ohio accent.

Nagh, but maybe Walt is from Newcastle!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2woc46LXkw

Maybe Walt was thrown off by my Ohio accent.

Oops. I thought you were from Poland. The name just seemed so thoroughly European.

This is still less embarrassing than the time I thought Robin was a lady instead of the strapping gentleman we all know him to be.

There's definitely some East European in there, but it's three generations back!

[Robin Garr]

There's definitely some East European in there, but it's three generations back!

Maybe he was misled by the Chicago tag?

Hey, don't judge the English proficiency of a whole city just by its newspaper, Robin.