Kobalt "Port Styled Wine" 2010

They don't use the word Port because of the laws, and that's right, but man if this isn't Port, i don't know what is.  I can't remember when my lips and teeth have been so comically purple.  Blueberry pie in a crust of salt and cracked black pepper, booze, sweetness, tight tannin, baking spices, geez.  This stuff is expensive, but it should be.  This is why people are rich.  To have things like this.  Man.  Made in traditional Portugese methods, but using very fancy viognier brandy as the fortifying agent.  So good.  I am reminded of Bunting on Pound's cantos but am too much in the voluptuary mode to remember the words or care.  This is why the Portugese are so confusing.  Dour, Catholic Seattle of Europe making wine that makes the most liscentious California Zin look like a mormon sex educator.  And here is Kevin Carriker doing it in California with CAB.  This would be the cured meats equivalent of some hippie in Virginia making Iberico that was actually as good.  Here a rare point on the post-modern side of the board.  I want a cigar.