The Corison’s Christmas Gold
TASTING NOTES: “The 2022 is so pretty with violet and dried rose perfume right out of the chute. Bright cherries and blueberries join darker cassis and plum flavors for delightful complexity. Provençal herbs, anise and wet-stone mineral notes join in the fun.”
“For the Corison Cabernet Sauvignon, her concept is to make a complex wine by taking advantage of the natural range of flavors possible in Cabernet Sauvignon grown on different sites. Benchland at St. Helena’s western edge is renowned for wines of unrivaled complexity, concentration, floral aromatics, velvety tannins and notable natural acidity.” (AbV 13.5%)
VARIETALS: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon.
BARRELS: 20 months in French oak, 50% new.
PAIRS WITH: N/A
THAT REMINDS ME OF: The Leprechauns’ Christmas Gold.
You might know about the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer series, the Santa Claus series, and the Frosty the Snowman series of Rankin/Bass stop-motion Christmas films, but perhaps you are unaware of their masterpiece known as The Leprechauns’ Christmas Gold. It’s only 25 minutes, first aired in 1981, and originally was intended to be for St. Patrick’s Day, which makes much more sense. They managed to shoehorn a Christmas angle into the beginning.
The leprechauns, split into shoe-makers and gold-miners, were accosted by a banshee named Old Mag who needed their gold to sustain herself. When they said no, she fractured the land of the leprechauns off of Ireland and into the island Thule. Working with St. Patrick, they managed to seal the banshee in a pine tree. Dinty Doyle, a cabin boy, comes to the island to retrieve a Christmas tree for his ship. The tree happens to be Old Mags, and she’s set loose. Dinty Doyle and leprechaun Barney Kilakilarney must then resist her various attempts to coerce the leprechauns’ gold. It’s a Christmas movie, we swear.
