Bernardus Winery
1997 Marinus Reserve
Carmel Valley
This weekend we celebrated our 24th anniversary at Morton's in San Jose. Since we can usually handle a bottle of wlne with a big meal like that, we raided our cellar for something special to take with us. This is the last bottle of three we purchased some time ago.
We had taken a nice trip to the Monterey/Carmel Valley area for some time out and wine tasting. Bernardus was probably the nicest wine we had that trip. The Marinus Reserve was already tasting quite good, and we ended up purchasing the last three bottles in stock. I can recall the previous bottle, fruity and ripe, also served with a steak. This one was, again, clearly past it's prime, but still presenting well. A bit light when tasted by itself. Still fruity, but soft, with nearly no tannins left. A bit of caramel on the side. Mark's nose said oak still, but aged and vanilla. When drunk with the steak however, the fats and carmelized fond smoothed it even further, and made the wine taste just fabulous.
I'm sad to see it gone, as it no longer will be around to bring back memories of a great trip to Carmel, however, it was time to go.
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