It Takes Tudor Make a Thing Go Right
Not quaffed for international renown / Just to wash the steak au poivre down
I ain’t what you might call “high-class.” I didn’t go to the right schools. I don’t hobnob with the cultural elites. I don’t dress in the finest clothes, or vacation in exclusive retreats, or go through more than a bar and a half of soap in a year.
So maybe I don’t fit in at the ballet. Maybe I’m a little too loud for the country club. Maybe the only time anyone uses the term “upper crust” in a conversation about me, it’s an uncomplimentary reference to the infrequency with which I launder my shirts.
Still, ain’t I a man? Ain’t I got taste buds? Don’t this schnozz take in a wine’s bouquet? Can’t my palate discriminate? You bet your dimpled booty I am, I do, it does and it can.
Fate made me who I am, though, and filled my pockets more with grit and lint than fat wads of green. So I have to keep an eye out for opportunities to appreciate those few finer things that’re within my reach. Economically, I mean. (And also physically, as I sustained a philanderin’ injury in my youth that left me unable to lift my arms above my head ever since.) My low-cash-flow situation have made me a connoisseur of life’s lower-cost delights. I know when the discount days are at the local museums, what hillsides offer a free view of the drive-in movie screen, and which rest stop men’s rooms are best-stocked with T.P.
But the most special treat for me is also the rarest: Seein’ a fair price on a top shelf Pinot Noir. As long as it’s not literally on the top shelf, or I need someone to help me get it down.
Ah, Tudor Winery! Steeped in tradition! Winner of awards and accolades! I love your Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir, harvested from the new clone Tondré Vineyards and the thirty-six-year-old Pinot vines at Paraiso! It gives off aromas of orange peel! Of loamy earth, dried berry and currant!
And I love your ‘06 Anderson Valley Pinot, which, alone at my dinner table, I call “Andy!” Andy’s somewhat higher in acidity and not quite so forward, like I like my women! Andy’s the shizzle, fo rizzle! In fact, there’s only one drawback to a Tudor Pinot that I can think of: It’s a little less roomy than the Fordor version. Ha! Ha! Just kidding.
Anywho, it’s not every day a couple wines of this quality drift by me in the drainage ditch of life. When it happens, I grab them fast, like a cobra would. Or like a cobra would if it had hands. And liked wine. Man, when I think of what rich men sometimes pay for lesser wines than these, it makes me want to laugh, loud and hearty at the capriciousness of circumstance!
And then to burglarize their homes.
2005 Tudor Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir:
- Alcohol: 13.8%
- Appellation: Santa Lucia Highlands
- Fermentation: Open Top Fermentation
- Oak: Francios Frere Allier Forrest 3yr Air Dried Wood
- Release Date: May 01, 2007
- Time In Oak: 11 months
- Varietal: 100% Pinot Noir
- Year: 2005
2006 Tudor Anderson Valley Pinot Noir:
- Alcohol: 14.3%
- Appellation: Anderson Valley
- Months in Barrel: 11 months
- Oak: Francois Frere
- Release Date: September 01, 2008
- Time In Oak: 11 months
- Varietal: Pinot Noir
- Year: 2006
- Fermentation: Open Top Fermentation
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