Monday, October 1, 2007

The New Everyday Wine


2005 Twenty Bench Cabernet Sauvignon
*at BevMo*

Neel:
Dude, I've been looking for this wine ever since my pops mentioned it to me 2-3 years ago along with the Liberty School Cabernet Sauvignon & the 6th Sense Syrah but this motherfucker has eluded me ever since.
Rich: Well if your dad mentioned it, I'm game. The other two were legit.
Neel: If this is anywhere close to the other 2, we may have another 'everyday' wine!
Rich: Let's do this.

*at Rich's*
Neel: Smells full bodied.
Rich: I'm stoked.
Neel: Pretty good but needs some air.
Rich: Word.

*minutes pass, wine decants & swirls*
Neel: Oh shit. This opened up nicely. Very nice and robust.
Rich: Oh damn. Strong.
Neel: Peppery.
Rich: Pretty damn good.
Neel: This might be another keeper.
Rich: Dude, at $15 we have another keeper and it's budget friendly.
Neel: This will mature well over the next few years. Maybe put a few away for later.
Rich: For a 2005, this wine is freaking good, just imagine in a few years.
Neel: I tried to find this when I lived in SoCal, searched the Ralph's, the Pavilion's, the BevMo's etc and no go!
Rich:
We've been the that BevMo a bunch of times and this is the first time I've seen it!
Neel: Glad we finally got to try it.
Rich: It tastes like wine molecules surrounding a water molecule.
Neel: Yeah, probably just needs a little more maturity but you can drink this now!
Rich: This is good dude. Your dad came through again.

*Rich proceeds to pick up 2 more bottles, one to drink and one to put away. Neel proceeds to do the same. Within the span of 6 days, that BevMo location sold 5 bottles of the Twenty Bench*