November 18, 2022

CHÂTEAU DE CIFFRE 2019

(Saint Chinian, Languedoc Roussillon, France) $22

Our office loved this wine. A little good “funk,” plus tons of cherry confiture, cedar, black pepper, and tobacco. Very juicy. Made me want to race into the kitchen and roast a chicken.

91 points KM

Available at Millesima

What Makes Great Wine Great? Part Nine: Emotion

“In Europe then we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well-being and delight. Drinking wine was not snobbism nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me, as necessary.”

–Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961),
A Moveable Feast

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