Extra-curricular drinking

Seeing as this blog is intended to serve an 'Amazon Wish List' style function, so I can look back and see what wines I enjoyed in order that I can find them and drink them again in future, the occasional extra-curricular wine drinking needs to be recorded.

I had a fantastic bottle of wine last night at the BOA Steakhouse on Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood in LA - Mollydooker 2008 Two Left Feet.



It was a delicious, thick, sweet, tangy, aromatic red; warm and spicy and complex, and only got better as the caraffe sat on the table.


The Sommelier also explained the "Mollydooker shake" to us.  Mollydooker use Nitrogen during the bottling process as a perservative - which means they use much fewer sulphites (which some people are allergic to).  According to Mollydooker's website, the Nitrogen gas "tends to flatten the back end of the round ball of fruit flavour in the wine."  So by giving the bottle a good "Mollydooker shake" before opening it, you release the nitrogen and the flavour becomes big and round again.  


So yet another fantastic McLaren Vale red - I think I really need to get myself over there and tour some vineyards!