 I like the wrist link a lot. Hello, hello, welcome back to Exotic Wine Travel. I am your host, Matthew Horkey. Hi, I'm Shereen Tan. Welcome back to the show, everybody. We just spent a crazy week in the Northeast. We get, and we're gonna talk a little bit about and taste some of the wines. You know, we were invited by the Croatian Chamber of Commerce to give a presentation on Croatian wines in New York City, which went great. And since we're going to New York, we contacted a bunch of people. We met up face to face, and we had a crazy 10 days of tasting. What did you say? Yeah, it was maybe seven straight days of full-fledged tasting every single day. And create an awesome stuff like Old Barolo, 1970s Dapa Cab, 70s Bordeaux, 90s Bordeaux, quirky stuff from all over California, which we're gonna taste today. So this video is all about tasting wines, but also a shout out to a friend that we knew in the virtual space, but now we know in real life Drew de Mateo, right? Shareen actually connected with him the first time, I think, somewhere. Yeah, I can't remember how we met. It was probably over Instagram while one of the Facebook girls, yeah. I'll put his handle up there. So anyways, it was so cool. He invited us, we stayed a few days with him in Jersey. We went tasting a few different places in New Jersey where he showed us some of our favorite food places. He knew Shareen was a big foodie. Then we tasted all these wines. We had then a crazy night with him and some other collectors in Eastchester, New Jersey where we were tasting Old Barolo, Old Napa Cab, crazy night with him in New York, and then a crazy couple of days in Philadelphia. We had a beautiful cornasse in Philadelphia at a wine bar, remember that? One at Street Cafe. Which was wonderful. And then we also tasted some beautiful wines at a get-together in New Jersey. And say anything about those experiences? I think it's very interesting for us because we do know the classic wine regions but we focus on the less known wine regions. To be honest, we are, well, quite weak in California wine as a whole overall. So to meet people who are based in the US and New York, New Jersey and to meet Drew, it really is a good crash course for us, for many regions that, many classic wine regions and we learned a lot in the past couple of days. It's always good to exchange geekiness with each other. Everyone is geeky about something, right? And it was awesome. Drew really was really hardcore about the minimal intervention wines in Sonoma County which will taste one of them today. So thanks a lot Drew. You really made our experience awesome. I think that's what's the cool thing about the wine world. You meet so many people in forums online and it's so fun when you meet in person and you get to share experiences. I mean, literally, when we were doing that first couple of days, that one lunch we had at a Thai place we dated 15 wines, right? And we would share 12 of our wines. He would share 12 of ours. We had, it was made possible. Thanks to our core event right here. Awesome experience, right? Also you kind of get a cultural immersion as well because wherever you go like a New Jersey there's a BYOB culture. So you get to taste different kind of food with the wines that you bring. And also in New York, we attended a BYOB session as well. Again, you meet the people who are in the community and look at the kind of wines they like. We talk about what kind of trend is going on in the different states. That was awesome. So we're going to taste through. These are one of Drew's favorite producers. This is Jolie Lade which actually means beautiful ugly. Like Che Jolie, I remember when I was in France and it means you're beautiful or something. Somebody's that's like the only phrase I love. I love the phrase. Anyways, Scott Schultz is the winemaker. Learned under Pax Malay, I think, right? Those wines from, these wines are hot, mailing lists only unless you're in New York, some markets, minimal intervention wines. We have a cut, we have three here. Thanks to Drew, he gave them to us. We're only going to taste one. First we have the one that we're not going to taste with the Jolie Lade 2000. Is that 15 or 16? 15. 15 Rosé from the North Coast. I believe this is Saran Karinyan. Rosé, yeah? Oh, you got excited? Yeah, I'm really excited about this Rosé. We have the 2014 Jolie Lade Grenache. It's called Rosé, I believe. Beautiful label. Grenache, Saravigny and Muscat of Alexandria, co-fermented. I am excited to try that. I will try that with some age. But what we are going to try today is the Jolie Lade 2015 Truceau Gris. The Truceau, of course, a French grape. This is macerated. I have to give a disclaimer. We did taste a little bit of this at lunch, our Thai lunch. But we had 15 wines a day and the food was so good it was hard to focus. So let's retaste this properly. The Truceau Gris from Jolie Lade 2015. Let's get started. Beautiful pink salmon, Pinot Grigio macerated-esque color. Yeah, not quite copper yet, more dark tangerine. This is awesome. This is exactly like, what are you picking up on this? It has a very strong, like a dry apricot and sweet peach note to it. Strawberries? Strawberries and orange peel? I get mango as well, I get a lot of mangoes. That's what's cool about these macerated wines, you get so many of these unique flavors. Juicy, right? Just really, really juicy wine. I remember tasting, you said 15 wines, we tasted at Thai lunch. And this was one of the two wines that I really wanted to go back to and I didn't, to save myself for this moment. 12-6 alcohol, let's give this a little bit of a go, shall we? Tell me what's in. What's your thing? It has a little bit of tea notes now, today. Still juicy, more medium-bodied. There isn't a lot of tannins in this Truceau Gris at all. Is it, you're not enjoying it as much? No, I don't remember it been like that, but yeah, it developed this, I wouldn't say it's oxidized, but it has this quite interesting floral tea notes to it on the finish. Plus a little bit of tannins. The tannins are very small, refined, they're not grippy at all. I find this exit to be very delicious. What are you thinking with the tea note leaves developing? Well, it has a juiciness and a freshness on the front palette. I find that it just acts to the complexity. I think actually a lot of blinded, a lot of people would think this is kind of a big meaty rosé. You think so? Because of the color, that's some of the flavors. I get a lot of the strawberries still. Strawberry and mango. And I think, this is such a unique orange wine. It's so clean, no mousiness, nothing like that. It almost has like this, you remember the powdered drink Tang? No, I don't. In America we had a Tang, it's a powdered drink, kind of be like orange juice or high C. That's what I get on this a little bit. I think that's why I find this so delicious. For me, I'm still pretty much, I still about, I would have to put this on Vavino. I think about 4.2, I think it's very delicious. Anything else you wanna add on the Jolie leg? I think I'm a little bit off with this wine today because I find it a little bit too cold and all of that. But this is definitely one of the wines that I really like. And if a wine really encourages you to learn more and dream more from a producer, I think that's the stem of a good wine. And I still would love to explore more of their wines. Yeah, and we will. Stay tuned to our Facebook page, we'll be posting more about this. I wanna say thank you once again to Drew. We had just a phenomenal time jumping down, not only wine, but a lot of food. Got your first real Philly cheesesteak. Oh yeah. You got to mock, mock. Bucket list. Talked about the bucket list and introducing us to some wonderful producers like Pax Miley and Jolie Lade. So anything else that you wanna add on these wines, our trip in general? I think it's so important for wine lovers to connect with each other wherever you go. Really put yourself out there and even meet strangers or just get in touch with the community. You get to learn a lot. It's so much fun too because there's automatically something to talk about when people are passionate about wine and no awkward moments. You can taste and have a lot of fun. So I think that's all. Thanks a lot, Drew. Guys, if you like this video, please subscribe to our YouTube channel, Exotic Wine Travel. I will see you at the next episode. Bye.