Wine Review - 2010 Mayu Carménère: Chocolate, Coffee, AND Gym Socks In A Glass
This wine was an impulse purchase while buying one of our favorite American Beers here in town a while back and as for tasting this....Shannon felt like I could use a drink. Thanks Sweetie. We had found out that Premier Wine & Spirits was selling the Brooklyn Brewery's Beers of which their Brooklyn Lager is a fave. Our most memorable instance of drinking Brooklyn Lager was on tap at the Brooklyn Bridge Park during a trip to NYC. We picked up this wine while buying a six pack. Mayu is from the Elqui Valley in Chile and comes in at $15 locally. The looks of this wine are definitely what we would call typical Carménère. Very dark and very thick. Swirled in the glass certainly shows there is body in this wine. Really nice looking but it is what we would expect. The smells coming from the glass are absolutely fantastic and unique. It has a Welch's grape juice and gym sock nose but totally in a good way. There is tha...