Note: I must say, that in light of this piece, that I am by no means an expert in wine. But that is the reason I started this blog. I needed something to write about, and I figured why not wine? So, if I come off as ignorant or pretentious, forgive me! As this article shows, I learned something!
So, I was going to review my next box wine, but I think I'll go about this differently. So the box wine, a Cabernet Sauvignon, by Almaden, I was not too happy with. Then I got a Chianti Classico Riserva by Bianti, vintage 2010. The Chianti did not seem to have a lot of depth, but I realized, in my humble understanding, that it was a big wine. I learned to like it. The Cabernet of the box wine is also big. But after drinking the Chianti, I drank the Cabernet; and since I had drank the Chianti, I noticed more depth in the Cabernet. Basically, the big, rather depth lacking Cabernet, suddenly had some depth. I tasted tarty fruit. It's pleasant, but interestingly not as pleasant as the Chianti. I must say that I like a more complex wine than the big Chianti, but I would buy it again to taste something different. It was a 2010, which was a good year for Chianti I am told. Though the Cabernet became more complex, I still preferred the simple and big Chianti. It is worth noting that I drank this Chianti to celebrate the premiere of the third season of NBC's Hannibal. In the movie Silence of the Lambs, Dr. Lecter, when he talks about the census taker and the fava beans, he says he drank it with a nice big Amarone.. But in the movie it is simply a nice Chianti. The liver is the important thing! This big Chianti that I drank, like Lecter's big Amarone, indeed would go well with a nice liver. It has a sort of pleasant metallic taste. So a nice big wine for sweetbreads.
