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"Cuvee Rita" 2023 (Chilean,

Maipo Valley)

Big blackberry, coco forward on the pallet. Well-rounded with low acidity/decent tannins. This is a great DD in my opinion and you can have it at Costco for a whole $12.99. as an aside I'm always impressed by the bottles that are used by the folks in South America. They're heavy as an anchor! Empty, you could throw this bastard through a plate glass window. The claw you see me using to go through the seal is one I made myself from an old piece of lumber mill bandsaw blade and some antler. I hardened it well past Rockwell 55/60 with a steep angle on the cutting edge so's to get through pretty much anything in its way. It'll break champagne wire easily as well.

So these bottles came from winekey.com and my first order from them was okay. Nothing to write home over but their "Letterhead Pinot 2025" (and low and behold if you look on the back they are the ones bottling it) was a nice wine although I thought a little over priced for what it was: a very light bodied one with decent aroma and it rested well on the pallet however nothing out of the ordinary. This stuff however, the 2023 Stolo, I poured down the sink. Really how often does somebody try to sell you a $35 bottle of badly made wine?, but that's what this is. There's no balance, no body and a sourness to it (for lack of a better word) that you just won't tolerate. Beware of these folks. May I add this company is but one of a slew of mail-order wine concerns that constantly pop up on my Instagram feed. I'm done with them.

My 13-year-old kitty has taken to sitting in front of a mirror. He sleeps in front of it, he gazes into it, this is all started just here recently. He is quite the old kitty though so maybe that's normal.

A Carneros... Anyone else tried it? And so what did you think?