2018 Cloeta Vox Vineyards
Each grape varietal has its own personality characteristic. For example, the Chardonnay gape generally has a clean, crisp nutty apple taste; its light-yellow color hue varies. The basics change because of geographic location as well as a wine maker’s application. As expected, a Chardonnay wine’s character has lots of moving parts. In real life, things often get quirky. For example, I had an aunt & uncle whose nick manes were “Scissor & Lizzy”, which probably attached from childhood. Then, there was a man in town who asked hunters to bring him squirrel heads. He skinned these, roasted each, and then cracked each head to eat the squirrel’s brain. Quirky things happen all the time; hoarders have their PHD = “pile it higher and deeper”. Or the professor, who pushes his glasses on his forehead, and spends the morning wandering in searching for them. Some people chew & pop their gum as they concentrate on their task. My grandmother used to sit in front of her Philco radio talking to studio actors, but now folks talk to a TV as game shows play on the screen. Quirky stuff. Vox vineyards in Western Missouri is introducing several different varietals by Texas Horticulturist, T.V. Munson. This bottle of wine is Cloeta, a grape doesn’t appear on best known varietal charts, quirky. It is a one of the wild western grapes he tamed as a new variety. The grape is the best of American black grape, and grows a thin skin. Supposedly, Cloeta is better than the average table wine. It is an inquiring wine with secrets to tell. Vox vineyards produced the wine that is too young to show mature characteristics: • the nose is fruity: currant. • the color is deep, dark crimson. • tasting was different in that it began as tobacco, but became dark coffee. • Then its finish fell off into shallow, thin tannin. We can’t predict how Cloeta wine will mature as it enters the market. There certainly is room for growth. And has been a fun experience is tasting one of those historic wines, which impacted & rescued the French wine industry.
