"Dry" doesn't mean "Tart"

Late. Late. Late. It's just been crazy. This past weekend was... well, just wow. But that's for this week's post. 

Lil' Sweetheart

Last week, let's see... The kids were over, and we forgot to carve pumpkins... oops. It was busy with preparations for last weekend (next post). As was the week, really. Everything for the past month had been leading up to last weekend. 

Celebrating our anniversary
with a glass of wine

Except Monday. Tyson and I had our 7th anniversary together on Monday. I find it hard to believe that we've been together for 7 years. We've come a long way (both literally and figuratively). And a lot has happened. One of my goals for this year is to find all his little puppy pictures... I'm not sure where they've gone, but I've only got a few left on Facebook. They must be saved on an external hard drive somewhere, it's just a matter of finding them... Now that I've put it out there (here), I'll have to do it! Right? Accountability? Or something like that... 

 Anyways, enough chit chat. Onto the good stuff. 

October 27, 2016

This week we splurged. We saw a Megalomaniac bottle that we had tried in May on our tour, and loved it, but it seemed so pricey at the time... Anyways, it's now available at the LCBO, and didn't seem quite so pricey, so we got it. Megalomaniac's Bubblehead. Its bottle is so sparkling and beautiful that Tyson felt he had to get dressed up. Fancy-pants. (I tried to link directly to the Bubblehead's page, but it kept coming up at "not found" so... you're SOL.)

Handsome devil.

Anyways, on popping the top, I got a bread-dough scent. Shane said it was a little yeasty, but also sweet and tart... In the glass it has a sugary start, but with a nice and smooth finish. Shane thought that after its sweet start, it quickly moved to a tart after taste. 

There was a fruit flavour going on in there that wasn't of the normal varieties we quote (apple, raspberry, pears, etc.). This one, after a bit of thinking, I decided was plums. Shane jumped in with "Sugar plums", I asked him what that was, and he very confidently, and a little mockingly said "sweet plums". After a bit of research, we discovered this was not true at all. Sugar plums are expensive old candy treats that - depending on the size - could take days to prepare. Apparently very tedious, time consuming and finicky... Moving on. 

After a glass, I noted that I didn't really get sour, nor tart like Shane, but I got dry. Sometimes we're not great at differentiating but, obviously, dry doesn't always mean tart. This was one of those times. Shane later amended his "tart" to "liquor-y": It goes from sweet to almost like drinking a liqueur. 

We quite like this one. We'll probably get it again sometime. We have yet to decide if it's $10 better than our normal stuff.  

~S

• Brand: Megalomaniac
• Type of Grape: Pinot Noir
• Sweetness: 13g/L
• Price: $29.95
• Tasting Notes: Sweet plums at start, very smooth finish. Nicely dry and balanced. Would pair nicely with a Christmas-y baked brie with a cranberry chutney.