The more votes, the more meaningful the totals, so please take just a moment to participate by clicking and perhaps, just a little, because they evoke memories of a happy bowl of Trix or Froot Loops.įruit or rocks: Which style wins our affection? Here's another quick poll in our Netscape WineLovers Community. Although I'm a mineral-lover myself, I find the focus on fruit in these wines appealing, perhaps because they're both nicely structured wines with good, mouth-watering acidity and a framework of tannins to support the fruit. Even if most of us have outgrown that craving for a bowl of Froot Loops as an after-school snack, I suspect that the fruit-forward style of wine still speaks to our inner child with a quiet voice that's hard to ignore.įeatured are two fruit-forward wines: a dry Portuguese red made in the Douro Valley from Port varieties, and a Spanish red from Calatayud, near Aragon, made from the notably fruity Garnacha (Grenache) grape.
Today let's return to childish things, recalling how much most of us used to enjoy the crisp sugary sweetness of those bright, fruity breakfast cereals that the corporate food industry aimed right at our immature little taste buds. Last week, delving into those mysterious wellsprings that inform our tastes by connecting adult experiences with fond memories from childhood, I postulated that a grown-up love of minerally character in wines - that delicious subtlety of slate and stone and chalk and red clay and rainwater running over rocks - must somehow harken back to youthful fun in mud puddles on rainy days.
Administrivia Change E-mail address, frequency, format or unsubscribe. Las Rocas de San Alejandro 2004 Calatayud Garnacha ($10)Ĭlassic Grenache, a heaping bowl of fresh raspberries with "green" back notes of leaves and tree sap and a dash of white pepper. Sunny Port fruit in a dry table wine, held in perspective with splendid acidic structure and balance. Lavradores de Feitoria 2003 "Três Bagos" Douro ($16.99) One week wine accessory sale! Enter FIRSTFREE at checkout for free FedEx on your first order!ĭo echoes of childhood snacks frame our adult affection for "fruit-forward" wines?
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