Looks like the holidays are going to be rough for blogging. Don’t worry I’m still not having trouble finding the time to drink wine, just to write about it. Speaking of fantastic wine I’ve drank lately, Myles and I shared our first Burgundy last weekend while out for our first date in a long, long while. It was a-m-a-z-i-n-g. It was a 1996, and perfectly aged. It was also my first experience using the services of the sommelier- which was also pretty great. Its just like all the books say, tell them what you want and how much you can spend and they will lead you to the perfect wine!

But, I digress. Earlier this week, before I started stuffing myself with turkey, we drank the 2008 Clos Floridene, which is from Graves. My handy pronunciation website doesn’t have just “Graves” but “". I think that’s a place (which isn’t in the wine appellation of Graves either), but it’ll give you the right idea.

This is the last white Bordeaux, so it’ll be all red for a while after this. This wine was a light straw yellow. As I often do, I smelled bananas and a little lemon.

I had it stuck in my head that this was going to be a sauvignon blanc based wine, even though I know that there are others allowed, probably because the other white Bordeaux was primarily sauvignon blanc. It wasn’t until I’d finished my tasting notes that I realized the obvious. At any rate, I thought it tasted a tad sweet, though with an acidic backbone. It wasn’t sugar sweet (it's a dry wine), but tasted of apricots and peaches, which are such sweet fruits. I was surprised that I tasted no citrus. I shouldn’t have been. I wrote down that it was such a full wine, almost like a French pinot gris.

And that was when I realized... it was semillon.

The Score: ★ ★ ★