booze review: Robert Mondavi Moscato d'Oro 2003

[solipsistnation]

Imagine the most perfect and beautiful pear ever. (If you don't like pears, imagine that you like pears.) It's been hanging in the sun for days, and is perfectly ripe, sweet and bursting with juice.

Now imagine that the best person ever, the most perfect and beautiful person of the appropriate sex who could ever possibly exist in your wildest dreams of love and joy, whoever that might be, has taken a bite of it. (For the sake of brevity, I will describe this person using only female pronouns.) She's been eating honey, too, and honey and the pear are mingling on her breath and lingering, faintly moist, on her lips.

Now kiss her. A lot.

That's what this is, except moreso. And chilled and just a little effervescent.

Highly recommended. As highly recommended as it gets, in fact.

Comments

[bluegargantua]

Desert wine?

Readily found in most liquor stores?

This I must try. And possibly secure before the weekend.

Tom

[stophittinyrslf.livejournal.com]

this one may or may not be super-available... we had it in a restaurant in philadelphia and then had a hard time finding it again. but that was mostly because we couldn't remember the name of it. now i can't remember if we saw it at other stores and just didn't recognize it at them.

in any case, i think that we found this bottle at austin liquors on route 9.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was ~$20 for a half-bottle at Austin Liquors in White City. If you look for it, it'd be in with the dessert wines, and since it's Mondavi, yeah, it's probably not hard to find.

I should go stock up on a few bottles for special occasions...

um, so you liked it?? :)

[fidgetmonster.livejournal.com]

well THAT's the most interesting wine review i've read in a long while!!

Re: um, so you liked it?? :)

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Yep. I had a glass at a restaurant in Philly a couple of months ago (Rouge, also recommended), and didn't write down what it was. "Moscato something..." So I've been looking for it since, without much hope of finding it. Luckily, this was it. 8)

[quaintance.livejournal.com]

MMM, moscato... A wine review that actually caught my attention and has me scribbling down the info. One of the most delicious plums I ever had was a nice ripe one that was full of juice, and a significant amount of that juice (and some pulp, I think?) ended up on the shoulder of my handsome, rugged, sexy mountain-man date while we lunched along a remote ridge in the Maroon Bells Wilderness, so I can easily extropolate that to the pear.

Must fine someone to enjoy a bottle of this moscato with immediamente!

[faceninja.livejournal.com]

I don't think a grosser write-up of an alcoholic beverage is humanly possible, but please don't consider that a challenge.

[brainiac69.livejournal.com]

Neat...I didn't know Mondavi was working with moscato. By the sound of it, this is probably very similar to Moscato d'Asti, an Italian dessert wine that is sweet, slightly fizzy, and generally amazingly good. It can also be found in many liquor stores...often in the $15-20/bottle range.

Moscato is the grape. Asti is the place they make it (of Asti Spumante fame, but don't villify them just for that).

For a similar good time, hunt around for Brachetto d'Acqui. It's the red counterpart to the white moscato, to my taste.

[motomuffin.livejournal.com]

Oh. Ooooh. Oh, my.

Off to the packie, I am.