Where there’s smoke …
Posted on July 8th, 2009 – 7:49 PMBy Bill Ward
… in a wine’s flavor profile, there’ll be my wife/way better half, moaning like Homer Simpson at a doughnut factory.
I mentioned awhile back that since she had quit smoking last August — happy near-anniversary, darlin’! — she had developed a real ardor for smoke-laden wines, mostly syrahs.
Well, she just took a swig of the 2006 Meek Family Estate syrah, from a winery owend by the Twin Cities’ own Michael Meek, and came up with a descriptor that would serve Robert Parker quite well:
“Essence of Marlboro.”




