I don't know if I want to admit this, but I did buy some wine on my recent-ish visit to
Raymond Nightmares, I mean, Vineyards. I came home with a single bottle of JCB No. 69 - for Jean-Charles Boisset, not the construction equipment people - a sparkling rosé made in the saignée method from 100% Pinot noir. This bubbly hails from the Boisset Family's vineyards in Burgundy. I didn't taste it at the winery, but seeing as I like Pinot noir based bubblies I didn't think I could go wrong. No. 69 seems to be a strange name for a wine, but according to the JCB website all the JCB wines are known by a number. Apparently, the flamboyant Jean-Charles was born in 1969. Ho-hum.
As for the wine, it wasn't bad - aromatic and crisp, but with the weight of Pinot noir - it's just that it simply tasted red to me. Yes,
red! The colour. On tasting this wine I think I experienced a phenomenon that is known as synaesthesia and my senses got all discombobulated. First time that's ever happened. It seems the absurdism at Raymond Vineyards has had a deleterious effect on me. Bizarre!
