Rhone Red blends from Cotes du Roussillon, Roussillon, South of France, France
Syrah 70%. Grenache 30%.
Purchase price: $13.99
Rankings: Robert Parker 91. ElsBob 91-93.
ABV: 14.5%
A pale to medium purple, full-bodied, with aromas of black fruit and pepper, high tannins and a very nice long finish. A great sipping red wine for your wine-thirty affair or pair with anything spicy, gamey, or blue and pecorino cheeses.
An excellent wine at a very good price. Buy a case, or two, and hold.
This week in 1968, San Diego psychedelic, hard rock band, Iron Butterfly released their second album, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” which sold a record, at the time, 8 million copies in its first year and a reputed 30 million, to date, worldwide. The song was voted the 24th greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1 in 2009 and also contained the 10th greatest drum solo of all time, as voted WatchMojo.
“In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” was planned as a love song to Adam and Eve tentatively titled “In the Garden of Eden” but when vocalist and song writer Doug Ingle, sang the song after drinking a whole freaking gallon of Red Mountain wine, he slurred the words so badly that drummer, Ron Bushy, transcribing the lyrics, mis-interpreted “In the Garden of Eden” as what became one of the great rock songs, ever.
In the 1995 episode “The Simpsons – Bart Sells His Soul”, Bart pranks his church into singing “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” for the opening hymn which he labeled as “In the Garden of Eden” by I. Ron Butterfly in the sheet music handout.
Source: Simpson Wiki. Watch Mojo. Graphic: Album cover, Atco Records.
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