Region: Barsac, Bordeaux, France

Price: $24.99 at Total Wine

Sight: Versailles gold

Smell: butterscotch, apricot, guava, almond

Taste: sweet, apricot, honey, butterscotch candy, orange, almond

Overall: Glorious.  This dessert wine has a perfume of sweet apricots and buttery almonds.  The texture of the wine is like a luxurious blanket over the palate, and the apricot notes are amplified all the way to the nutty almond finish.  A hit of orange lightly strikes the glands, bringing in some acidity to balance out the filled-out honey sweetness.  The core of the flavor of this entire experience is something like butterscotch candy.  I bought this for my dad for Father’s Day, and when he tasted it, he said, “It’s my grandmother’s house!” and I said, “…What?”  and he said, “Butterscotch candies!”  Something about this wine brought back the memory of his grandmother’s ever-present bowl of Brach’s butterscotch hard candies.  And that’s why wine is so awesome.  It really can take you anywhere.