I love new ideas in the wine world in part because they are
so few and far between. Naked Winery
in Hood River outside of Portland in
the beautiful Columbia River Gorge has
always been pushing ideas around to increase sales and get people to not take
wine so seriously. Enter their Wanderlust White, a blend of various grapes, in
this iteration it’s Gewürztraminer and Riesling, all done in stainless steel
then bottled in a BPA-free plastic bottle.
Yeah, you read that right...a plastic wine bottle. Gimmick? Not really. Well
ok, maybe, but so what? Workable? Oh, yeah. A pleasant acidity, a hint of
sweetness, apples, pears and a slight resin, it’s not a complicated white wine,
but it is the perfect picnic wine. And if you drop it (frankly why the hell are
you dropping wine to begin with?) the bottle will bounce, not shatter, and the
happy wine inside will remain unharmed. We’ve all had the experience of buying
a bottle only to have it slip and go boom. Bummer, right? At first glance the
bottle looks smaller, because it is thinner, lighter and easier to carry on
those long treks to your make-out place. Anyhow, the wine is good, the
packaging even better. Is this a foretelling of things to come? Time will tell,
but this is pretty cool.
$14/ 750 ml – Alc: 13% NAKED WINERY
BOOZEHOUNDZ RATING: 88 POINTS
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