Shiraz Worthy of Your Glass
2006 Ares Takes a Breather Before we are Even Seated |
2006 Two Hands, Ares
McLaren Vale, Barossa Valley
WS: 96 points
Enjoyed at:
Lonesome Dove
2406 N. Main Street
Fort Worth, Texas 76164
(817) 740-8810
On a little side trip to Dallas for a friend's 40th birthday, I found myself in the safe arms of a Kindly Southern Gentleman Friend from Vermont who summarily announced that we (Mr. Frank came too) would be headed off to Tim Love’s Lonesome Dove restaurant in Ft. Worth.
On a little side trip to Dallas for a friend's 40th birthday, I found myself in the safe arms of a Kindly Southern Gentleman Friend from Vermont who summarily announced that we (Mr. Frank came too) would be headed off to Tim Love’s Lonesome Dove restaurant in Ft. Worth.
The magic of downtown Ft. Worth over by the stockyards is the music scene and street scene that revolves around terrifically oddball buskers and other assorted folks in Wrangler jeans and very up-to-date cowboy boots. Perhaps the most memorable site was of an elderly couple on oxygen tanks singing vintage country songs from the Patsy Cline/Hank Williams periods.
I was at a winery in Temecula, California, at Christmas time with my big sister, and a couple who had joined us on the horseback ride through the vineyards had video of these buskers. So they are very special souls indeed! What a hoot to run into wine folks with similar experiences. More and more I get the impression that people who are into wine really like to sit back, watch, and soak up the sensations when they travel. I may just be flattering myself, but when I travel, I do notice how important the little things that make a place special are.
For example, in Paris, it’s not the Eiffel Tower that excites me, it’s the journey to get to the Tower. It’s the crazy efforts that tourists go to to cut in line. It’s the feel of the fresh air that you enjoy in line, but then as you ascend, how damnably cold it gets and makes the experience one you want to end faster than you had intended. And how impressive the structure is when you are on the ground, having a picnic at the foot of the Tower in the parkland below. That's what drinking the 2006 Ares Shiraz is like...it's less the wine—although that is exceptional—it's the journey from the cellar and into the bottle that sticks.
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For example, in Paris, it’s not the Eiffel Tower that excites me, it’s the journey to get to the Tower. It’s the crazy efforts that tourists go to to cut in line. It’s the feel of the fresh air that you enjoy in line, but then as you ascend, how damnably cold it gets and makes the experience one you want to end faster than you had intended. And how impressive the structure is when you are on the ground, having a picnic at the foot of the Tower in the parkland below. That's what drinking the 2006 Ares Shiraz is like...it's less the wine—although that is exceptional—it's the journey from the cellar and into the bottle that sticks.
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