So another week begins, and another glass of wine sits before me...this time Xavier Cotes du Rhone at my beloved Fig & Olive, a perfect blend of Grenache, Syrah and Mourvedre.
Notes of blueberries round out this smooth and mellow red from my dear France. Hints of spice make this the perfect choice for reflection time on the last week which has offered more than its fair share of spicy drama. As long as you've had a little (or in this case a lot) you might as well round it out, right? Right.
These spicy characteristics are softened by silky hues of dark cherries, much like the heat that has put my life in kahootz has been softened on the edges by the little things that make these tumultuous times more manageable (enter those four wines mentioned in the subject line...) and that eventually lead to life lessons you become grateful for after enough time has passed. Perhaps a little like the time required for a heady, rich, and aged wine to breathe...
Breathing and letting things go - and learning from mistakes/bad choices is after all what embodies the development of our palette and fosters the expansion of (my) wine knowledge; what a perfect note to end on and also to begin the pursuit of my dream of a wine career in NYC...
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