Report on my brief (few weeks, once in each week of the few) investigation of merlot

[UTUSN]

***EXPERIMENTAL GUIDELINES: Time, one bottle only at a distance of one or two weeks, however with the entire bottle being exhausted in one sitting (as background to laptop, t.v. noise). ***

FINDINGS:
#1: The first swig/drink is *really* ugly, acidey, did I say ugly, errk. However, it softens up after that. Next morning effects, NEGLIGIBLE.

#2: It doesn't yield a severe, fast buzz, sort of creeps up in a THUD BRAIN kind of way. I think the frontal lobe is affected. What does the frontal lobe control and affect?

***END of scientific experiment. For other insights, see my Oscar commentary elsewhere in Lounge.

[dweller]

1. lol

next up... Pinot noir for your analysis... might I rec the moderately priced boxed
Pinot Evil ...

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[UTUSN]

2. Hah!1 Thanks for your tolerance. I was told the Pino & merlot are the same?

And I, who am a gentleman, shrink from "boxes"? However, in a final ditch might lower myself to that, although I've been known to use a Dremel tool on a recalcitrant cork!1

But really, is pinot different in taste from this merlot? Be specific, is it sweeter, smoother, more buzzy?!1 I am naturally loopy but enjoy an even more fling to the loop!1 Not hard liquor 'cause that's dangerous in details not to be documented here.

[irresistable]

5. In the movie Sideways, this lover of pinot noir had this to say...

[UTUSN]

6. HAH, I like it, but without the *reasons* don't get the upshot. However,

I will take this (thank you) as a referral for me to next experiment with Pinot. I mean it. I have a scientific curiosity about things and FOLLOW THROUGH when I say so.

[irresistable]

11. the backstory from "Sideways"

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/07/05/535038513/the-sideways-effect-how-a-wine-obsessed-film-reshaped-the-industry

[dweller]

3. a Pinot

may be a bit lighter, spicier, fruitier too...

I enjoyed a few boxes of the Pinot Evil when I could find it, was a mark down, and I'm not a red wine fan mostly, found it fun
ymmv...

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[UTUSN]

4. Ah, well, the "lighter/spicier/fruiter" makes me wary. I'm really a BEER barbarian. AND

again with the BOXES, but I have known myself to drop all elegant pretenses under certain circumstaNces. But I appreciatively bow to your insight!1

***Wait a minut --- "lighter" than MERLOT? Is that the reference? Not so acidey as my findings of merlot document (above)? Thanks again. (No financial recompense is implied in this exchange.)

[dweller]

7. you know Rose?

the pink wine? a Pinot is not that... lighter as in more fruit flavored, less tannin
quaffable... a Zinfandel is similar but imo heavier, chewier, more to the cab side

ever had a Nouveau Beoujolais? the 1st vino of the season, fresh pressed and bottled, non aged, like an alcholic grape juice?
Pinot is not that either... it's just a lighter, less tannin red, actually refreshing slightly chilled below room temp...

again, just my 2 cents, and a box is the way many vinters are looking at for cost saving/shipping savings... after all the plastic bag within the box, when empty can be blown up and serve as a pillow for your head when you pass out 😁

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[UTUSN]

9. Ah, "pillow for your head" I like your humor. But to the subject: As I said not a connoisseur (sp)

I am a crude beer guzzler. Let's get down to it, like to BE DRUNK and don't excuse myself by having been a drunken sailor!1

But responding as I always do to what is posed to me: Do all of those "pink .... lighter ... fruit flavored ... less tannin ... quaffable ... grape juice ... refreshing ..." ----------------------- are all of those quoted words actually CODE for NOT-DRUNK qualities/properties?

Bottom line question, what's the buzz quotient of whatever that we're talking about, if we're talking about the same thing?!1

By this stage of the discussion, "box" is not an issue. Yes, functionality as a pillow might be. By the bye, "tannin" (word) gives me the creeps from Rosemary's Baby.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Cheap merlot can be rather awful, but a better one is, to me at least,

soft and plummy with overtones that are kind of buttery (for lack of a better description). I'm not crazy about most reds but I like merlot and nouveau Beaujolais if I have to drink a red. They aren't as heavy as some.

[mercuryblues]

10. merlot is best when served with a meal

preferably (IMO) a rare steak.