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Dune The Golden Retriever Reviews 2002 Brunello

2002 La Velona Brunello Di Montalcino

Review by Dune the Golden Retriever

DUNE 006Hi, I’m Dune.  I know what you’re thinking…nice looking dog…I mean, is a dog actually reviewing a wine?  YES.  So get used to the idea.  I’m sure I’ll do more in the future.  Now on to my review.

Last Friday night, my owners went out to dinner and came home with a movie and a bottle of wine (the movie was on a DVD, by the way). Ruby, my dogmate in crime, and I laid on the floor.  There were no dogs or other animals in the movie so “boring” would be putting it mildly.  My owners shut off the movie and went to bed.  They also left their full wine glasses sitting on the table (thank you sleep deprivation).  The wine looked really deep red and thick and smelled like cherries and a cedar tree (among other things).  Quite honestly, it could have smelled like a cat’s litter box and I probably would have slurped it anyway.  I took a quick slurp and could taste the cherries and other red fruit.  I know those tastes because I used to raid the fridge at night before my owners finally figured out what I was doing and started locking it.  It took them two years to figure that out.  “Wow, honey, why do the raspberries keep disappearing?”  It was tasty so I slurped up the whole glass and Ruby slurped up the other glass.  I heard my owners say that 2002 wasn’t supposed to be the best year for Brunello but for us dogs it was still good (okay, Mike wrote that in. In fact, he wrote all of this in but that’s another story).  People get anxious to drink their wine sometimes and probably could have waited another couple years to drink this one.  But after our slurping, we jumped up on the couch, where we’re not supposed to be, tucked our paws and went to sleep.  I woke up the next morning fresh and ready to wreak more havoc on the world.