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Bonny Doon Vineyards routinely churns out no nonsense wines that usually taste pretty damn good without whalloping you over the head with the price tag. The Cigare Blanc 2004 ($19.99) is a knock off of the Chateauneuf-du-Pape blancs that are dominated by the roussanne grape and usually include a smidgen of grenache blanc as well. This wine is 73% rousssane and 27% grenache blanc.
Let me go ahead with a couple of disclaimers: (1) I have never tried a single Chateauneuf-du-Pape blanc in my life. (2) I am exteremly picky/finicky when it comes to drinking white wines. If it’s white, it better not beat around the proverbial wine bush, it better offer up somethin special or I would just as soon drink a cab in 110 degree heat with my seafood. (3) Being self diagnosed as selectively palate disabled, I frequently plagerize the tasting notes of people drinking with me. We can move on now, or you can choose to stop reading.

The Cigare Blanc started off optimistically with a whiff of pineapple out of the glass. It seemed to go downhill from there. While the Bonny Doon people speak of flavors of “white peach, honey dew, and lemon blossom,” I encountered an overwhelming midpalate of blubbery blah that left my mouth feeling like I was drinking olive oil. This must be what the snobs refer when they talk about a wine being flabby?! Usually when I have a wine experience like this somebody else blatantly calls me out, implying I just don’t understand the wine (or some other jibberish, back-pedaling, ball-less, contrived comment). On this night nobody rescued the Cigare Blanc, comments included “fruit flavored rubbing alcohol with butter,” and “particularly foul wine. Finish sucks.” Hopefully this was just a shitty bottle! 2/100 points on the Booze Reviews scale, one point for containing alcohol, and one point for being cold/initial smell of pineapple.

(7 votes, average: 5 out of 5)

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