Bonny Doon Framboise and Mc Crea LHR
Years ago, about the time I turned 21, I got into wine through a traditional route: sweet wines, particularly dessert wines. At the time, one of my favorite wines was the Bonny Doon Framboise, which was extremely good without being too sweet. It was more like a mouthful of ripe raspberries and sugar.
Over the past several years, however, this wine has grown increasingly cloying and less like raspberries than liquid sugar. While it is true that my tastes have changed, I still like the same beers now…Lagunitas IPA is still the same beer, for example, as in 1998. So when I purchased a bottle of Framboise tonight to share with my friends, all of us agreed that it needed ice and soda water just to make it palatable. That’s a little distressing, I’d say…I wonder why exactly this wine is tending so far toward the sugar and so far away from a simple raspberry flavor. Oh well.
I also picked up a bottle of McCrea Late Harvest Roussanne, which I am excited to try. I think I’ll wait for a specific dessert or some special after-dinner occasion, though, or else I’ll end up wasting this wine entirely.