2017 Suite Petite Chronic Cellars
I bought this bottle for Halloween. The label targeted seasonal shoppers like me. The label is the hook to have you snatch it up. Being curious, I bit the winemaker’s bait. Here we have a reclining, skeletonized woman with boobs and eyelashes. The debonair holds her glass of red wine in one boney fingered hand. A boney foot fits into a CFM shoe. Plus, she resides at the “Suite Petite” place. Then, the back label offers suggestions: “Wishes in one hand and Chronic in the other”, etc. Is this ’17 Petite Shirah red wine blend a trick or treat? It seemed to try to sucking blood from seasonal shoppers. The wine has 85% Petite Sirah with another 15% Syrah. The wine maker is from Sonoma, CA. But there isn’t any reference where these grapes were harvested. Well, way back in the stone-age of the 1950’s, there was a song “Que Sera, Sera, whatever will be will be.” That’s where my pallet was in drinking Chronic Cellars’ Suite Petite. I didn’t care for this red blend. The nose was very earthy. First taste was burned rubber. After I got through the first boneyard, the wine got better. Even so, I was haunted by its darkness and heaviness. That cute skeletonized woman with her flashing eyelashes and toothy smile is a “trick”, not a treat. Rest assured, she is one “trick” I will not pay for again.
