There was no more appropriate wine: Partial Eclipse Red Wine

[David M. Bueker]

Not so much a tasting note, as I mostly just sipped and enjoyed, but Hardy Wallace released a "Partial Eclipse Red Wine" from his Extradimensional Wine Co. YEAH! label, and of course I had a bottle yesterday after the eclipse. Should have had it during the eclipse. It's not like this was some gimmick, as it had all the energy and freshness of Hardy's other wines - plenty of red fruit along with a citrus zest kicker on the finish.

Fun way to close out eclipse day for those of us outside the path of totality.

I'm sorry, but the phrase "outside the path of totality," in this context, makes me imagine snippets from Adorno's Minima Moralia serving as tasting notes.

"Not least to blame for the withering of experience is the fact that things, under the law of pure functionality, assume a form that limits contact with them to mere operation, and tolerates no surplus, either in freedom of conduct or in autonomy of things, which would survive as the core of experience, because it is not consumed by the moment of action."

Or maybe just: "Wrong wine cannot be drunk rightly."

I think this might be my new CellarTracker persona, although there could be copyright issues.

Sounds like a great choice for Partially Open That Bottle Day!

[David M. Bueker]

Ha!

How’s it going Walt? Long time no see.

Patchen - forgive me but I may need a remedial course!

Hey Walt! Nice to see you from me, too.

And sorry about the Adorno. I promise you, there are three or four people in the world who will think that’s as funny as I do. I have a very strange
combination of hobbies. The second line, FWIW, is a riff on “wrong life cannot be lived rightly,” though it doesn’t really work with the original German (“es gibt kein richtiges Leben im Falschen”). I suppose you could pun on it by saying “es gibt kein richtiges Leben in Flaschen” (there is no right living in bottles), but I think we of all people know that’s not true.

[David M. Bueker]

I’ll stick to Jethro Tull and Living in the Past.

Hi Patchen as well! Not much going on wine-wise here, though I have really enjoyed the handful of 2021 German rieslings I've come across. Vintage of the century? Kidding.