Christmas arrived on time yesterday and Boxing Day did the same today. Family arrived in various combinations earlier in the week and we are now seven-strong, and that is a huge improvement on last year.
As a consequence, there have been many bottles opened in the last week and, I strongly suspect, a few more to be treated in the same way over the next, but the one that helps us to round off this latest attempt to try 52 wines in 52 weeks is:
It is strangely pleasing to have made it through the year from Week A (2021) to Week Z (2021) having found each of 26 reds and 26 whites (actually there were a couple of pinks, but I allow that) representing the letters of the alphabet. It is over eight years since I put myself on this trail and although there have been fallow periods I am pleased to have resurrected the habit successfully in this last year.
I don't care one jot that I am the only reader; I actually take some comfort in that if anyone else stumbles across this blog (other than the Russian and Chinese bots and the US Secret Services who have been my companions all along and about whom I couldn't care less) I might be closer to the care home than I currently imagine.
For now, Zweigelt: An Austrian grape produced as a crossing of Blaufrankisch and St.Laurent, first brought into being by Friedrich Zweigelt in 1922 so close to a century ago. To avoid me typing too much about the history of the grape, have a look at Week Z (2014) when I last selected the grape. (That would be the Red Week Z (2014) as the White one was about Zenit, another crossing from another country.)
Zweigelt is a rich and juicy chap with plenty of both red and black fruits, backed up with some nice floral flavours. Think violets and cherries, of both hues, with blackcurrants and plums and some of those flavours will be recognisable in the glass, I believe. At least they were to me.
It is medium bodied and not unlike a new world Pinot Noir which if I had regular readers, other than the aforementioned, they would know that in my world, this is a Good Thing.
Next week will be the first (wine) week of 2022 and so I wish all good things to all people for the coming year.
Buy again? yes.
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