Good evening all! I enjoy trying new wines and, oftentimes, bottles are what sell me on a wine. I can read the back or look it up on Google or Vivino to get more detail, but what captures my attention is a unique label. I’m a hopeless victim of good marketing. The label is what drove me to purchase the 2015 Tenshən White Wine from the California Central Coast. First of all, the upside-down “e” represented in the label is called a schwa character. You can tap into the Microsoft cavern of fonts to obtain it. Get this…you type a U+0259 then press the Alt key while pressing the X key. The schwa in English is a vowel representing “uh”. Second of all, that was exactly what I uttered when I took my first sip of this wine. I enjoy a relatively heavy oak wine whether or not it is a Chardonnay, a Cabernet or even a Merlot. This was too much oak for me. It was oak-based and complex with some hints of apple. It was almost too complex on its own. However, I then drank this wine with some spicy foods and enjoyed it. The spice was a kick and it kicked back.
The makers of this wine must be extremely cerebral. The label is either a depiction of a maze or a person’s brain. Both of those would represent how drinking this wine can be. You’re either hitting a wall and turning around to then find another open pathway to enjoyment or your neurons themselves are running through a damaged synapse and having to reroute due to damage on the path. This wine caused tenshən in my taste buds and brain. This isn’t a drinking wine for the sake of just drinking it in my opinion. You can find it at Total Wines for approximately $17.00 per bottle.
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