Ready For My Close-Up
TASTING NOTES: “Our rosé delights on first blush and long after, with aromas of peach, pear and watermelon. Light to medium-bodied with a crisp finish, it awakens the palate and satisfies taste after taste with lingering notes of stone fruit and hints of the limestone that marks our land. Try it with soft cheeses, charcuterie and seafood. Or enjoy it on its own as an exquisite apéritif.” (AbV 13.0%)
VARIETALS: Petite Sirah
BARRELS: Stainless Steel, 2 Months
PAIRS WITH: N/A
THAT REMINDS ME OF: Grandeur.
Specifically: “delusions of grandeur,” a phrase so useful it graduated from casual insult to actual clinical term. Psychiatrists use “grandiosity” to describe the flavor of megalomania where a person is convinced they’re secretly royalty, a deity, Napoleon reincarnated, or all three at once. Napoleon himself gets cited so often as the textbook case that “Napoleon complex” became its own separate diagnosis-that-isn’t-really-a-diagnosis, which feels like a raw deal for a guy who, historically, was extremely correct about being important.
My favorite fictional case study is Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, a faded silent film star living alone in a decaying mansion, still convinced the whole world is waiting for her comeback. “I am big,” she says. “It’s the pictures that got small.” Nobody asked her. She told them anyway, staircase and all. There’s something almost admirable about grandeur that doesn’t require an audience to sustain itself — it just runs on its own supply.
ICYMI, you have two choices:
- Worried Summer heat might get to your wine before your wine gets to you? Order from the sale linked here, and we’ll get it to you at a cooler time of year!
- Want it shipped now? Every package during the summer will have protected temp control ground shipping for much of the country that takes longer but will ensure safe delivery. Expect up to two weeks for delivery. Now through the September 12th offer.
