Love him, or hate him, one thing is for sure, Jon Rimmerman has created a cult-like online wine buying experience with his
Garagiste website and "exclusive" email list. Once you subscribe to the Garagiste email list you will begin receiving some of the most over the top wine missives you have ever read. If you are anything like me, you will find these offers hard to resist. Then, one day you will wake up with a cellar full of French wines that all taste like you are licking minerals from rocks strewn on a pathway running with streamlettes of acid rain.
If that isn't enough to make you question your will power, Rimmerman introduced his Mystery Wine series a few years back. I repeatedly confirm P.T. Barnum's observation that there is a sucker born every minute by succumbing to far too many Mystery Wine offers that appear in my inbox. Luckily, I have probably enjoyed about a 90% success rate with my Mystery Wine purchases. The 10% failures? They are failure like you could never imagine! Search for
Garagiste Mystery Wine on Google and you will see what I mean about failure, love and most of all hate.
This week's matchup features two Washington Syrahs that were Garagiste Mystery Wines. Both of these wines fall into my mystery wine addiction success bucket. They are also excellent Washington Wine representatives for this month's
Monthly Wine Writing Challenge. The
Drunken Cyclist won last month's challenge and earned the honor of picking this month's theme - Mystery.
On to the matchup!
