Cimarone Estate Cilla’s Blend (6)

Friday, August 10, 2012

Yes, thank you, Roger, it WOULD be very nice if you’d step back a little from my six bottles of 2010 Cilla’s Blend, as your body heat might be changing the room’s ambient temperature, and thus ruining my tasting experience. Are you sure you assigned your meeting to Room DC5.0098.4? Because I know for a FACT I have had this planned for at least the past six weeks.

No, Vivianne, you can’t have a little corner of my cheese. I need it all, because otherwise I won’t be able to fully enjoy the rich flavors of this chic designer wine. It’s a blend of Cab and Syrah, and I brought it specifically so I could enjoy a quiet hour during my lunch break, an hour you’re now WASTING, by the way, enjoying the rich flavors of my Cilla’s Blend. No, I DON’T actually know what it tastes like, and I WON’T as long as you keep wasting my time talking about your silly… what is that, a stack of finance reports? Yeah, like anyone in a company ever needs to look at THOSE. I know I never even open them over in Accounting, I just stamp them complete and throw them in the shredder. You guys could learn a lesson from me. It would really save you time.

Well, Donald, I appreciate that you “appreciate my needs” but face it, I’m not giving up the break room until I’ve finished my tasting here. See? I’ve got a nice tablecloth and everything. I even baked that bread myself. Yes, Paul, YOU can have a slice, because YOU let me cut in front of you at the copier that once. See how it works, Vivianne? Maybe you’ll remember that the next time I ask to borrow your scissors.

All right, all right, now I’ll have to insist: you all have to find a different room to have your quarterly manager’s meeting. Might I suggest the lunchroom? Because I know for a fact there’s at least one table free, since it’s the one I normally sit at, and no one ever joins me. I can’t imagine why, because I’m so friendly and sociable.

Tsk! Donald! Don’t close the blinds! My scones need indirect sunlight at all times!

• Alcohol: 14.5%
• Winemaker: Doug Margerum

The wine is made from exceptional estate grown Happy Canyon AVA hillside hand-sorted fruit. Fermentation is performed in open-top barriques using classic manual punchdown.  The wine is then brought up for twenty months in a combination of new and neutral French Oak barrels in the cold Cimarone cellar.  The full bodied and classically structured wine made from the Cabernet is blended with the ripe savage Syrah to yield a wine of beauty and elegance – just like Cilla.

Woot