Our Honeymoon Love Child

One of the biggest concerns for a wine importer is the condition of their bottles after they make the long journey from winery to warehouse. Of course there are precautions to minimize the risk (proper packaging, thermal wrappers, insurance), but when the wine importers are newlyweds that give as much love and attention to their business as they would a honeymoon love child, they tend to be a bit nervous.

Did many of the bottles break? Did the red wine of broken bottles dribble onto the pristine labels of the other bottles? Did the container sit in the scorching heat for too long? My nightmare was a container full of broken bottles with red wine cooked from the sun flowing out of every crack. For those who don’t know, wine can go bad in the bottle if it sits in too much heat or too much cold. And our baby sat in a Mexican port for two weeks…

Luckily my nightmare did not come true. Our love child was delivered with only three broken bottles out of 12,000 (anyone want to buy some wine?). And last night we tasted our first bottle: Domados (name of the wine) Bonarda (grape type)…and it was perfect. It was an interesting, complex, mineraly, fruity, smokey and downright damn fine wine (that will retail for about $11…a total steal).

The wine is good! Thank the Lord Above! The Wine is Good!