WTN: L’enfant Terrible

[David M. Bueker]

1995 Edmunds St. John Mourvèdre L'enfant Terrible - USA, California (4/8/2023)
Ever walked into an antique shop that’s in a very old house? Everything is full of that dusty, old wood and incense burned thirty years ago smell. Now walk into a Mourvèdre shop, and everything smells of old leather, dried herbs hanging on the walls, sandalwood, baked earth, and a memory of ripe berries in a dish on a table outside in the summer sunshine. There’s nothing corporeal here, it’s all ethereal. It’s the last bottle of this wine I owned, and quite probably the last bottle I will ever taste, but it was delicious, and that’s all that matters.

that is such a delight to hear; I certainly never would have predicted that that wine would carry that many years. Can't remember the last time I had it. Makes for a lovely memory...

[David M. Bueker]

This was one of those bottles I might have held on for too long until my dad passed, and I realized how easy it is to let a wine slip into oblivion because it’s “the last bottle.”

Thanks for notes. Thought actually maybe only ESJ cuvee I had never had, but a look at CT shows there was a straight Viognier several years, which pretty sure I never tried.