For a children’s story, wine doesn’t make a good central
character or theme. Kids’ books are better suited to things like James and
the Giant Peach, not Mike and the Mammoth Merlot. But as a story,
S&G Estate has a good one. Owners Goran and Ksenija Bjekovic first met while
playing volleyball for Yugoslavia’s national team. Their son, Sasha Vujacic, two-time NBA Champion and former Lakers
star, began his athletic career in Italy where Goran and Ksenija also began a
love affair with wine. And now from their property in Paso Robles comes this Bordeaux
beauty; as sleek and focused as an athlete but not a steroid driven maniac. The
2011 Aleksander is 80 percent Merlot
and 20 percent Cabernet Sauvignon. This luscious wine spent18 months sitting in
French, Serbian and Romanian oak barrels. It’s as smooth as silk with notes of
black cherry, rhubarb, black berry and boysenberry, a proper acidity you don’t
often get from Merlot and spicy cedar and vanilla. Paso wants to be known for
it’s Bordeaux wines, and some are quite good, but they tend to be huge ripe
fruit wines, which actually have a difficult time working with food. The
Aleksander by contrast is a seamless wine, certainly one of the best I’ve had
from Paso in a long time, beautifully balanced and ideal with food. So get a
bottle, and tell your own story with it. http://www.aleksanderwine.com/
ORIGIN: Paso Robles (Creston
AVA), California
PRICE: $75 - 750/ml
ALCOHOL: 13.4%
BOOZEHOUNDZ SCORE: 91
POINTS
No comments:
Post a Comment