I posted about this a couple months ago when my boss gave it to me. I drank it the other night with a bunch of friends at the end of my birthday dinner.
Surprisingly, the cork held together and came out in one piece with the Durand.
Color: let’s call it a rich mahogany. My dining companions didn’t believe me when I told them this was a white wine in another life.
Nose: Honey-caramel, mixed with a hint of turpentine, some nuttiness
Palate: Sticky toffee, most identifiable fruit flavor was prune. Turpentiney-ness was there too – not to the extent that it made me worry about being poisoned but not a taste to savor.
Mouthfeel: Syrupy and tongue-coating
Finish: probably the most pleasant part of the experience. Finish was long and chemical flavor yielded to a pleasant nuttiness.
Final analysis: Hey, we drank it and nobody died. (I was the only one who finished my glass.) Not a transcendent experience but I’m glad I did it.
by snazzyvalise