After the fox and the partridge, our zoo of the wine-dico expands with the peacock ! This time, it’s about a wine of “Alain Delon” vintage ! And as all this kind of wine, he has to do the “peacock tail” !

He arrives with his haughtines, self-assured, looking up and down the others wines on his way: he is here, it’s him, the peacock Alain Delon and declares: “That the Alain Delon vintage be uncorcked !” (so yes, this wine also speaks of himself with the third person 😉 ) Softly, the corkscrew Jules César (you need also a special one) pulls out the cap of protection and then, turns the screw perfectly centred in the cork…So, in a subtle withdrawal, this one slides until the aromas smell the air. This divine nectar is poured in a Baccarat’s crystal glass (it’s a minimum) then, we give way to the star !It’s not the wine who comes to the mouth, but the mouth who comes to Alain Delon. Then, the peacock can start to fan its tail… In the mouth, we start to detect one aroma, then a second, then a third, … Impossible to spit out, it should be stupid ! This wine may be pretentious but he takes his responsability and spread all his aromas like the peacock does with its tail… But it’s not enough, the diversity of his aromas continues to be developed many seconds after, and some others appears ! At that moment, we can say that this “Alain Delon” wine does the “peacock tail”: when the range of all his aromas is present in the mouth and let you completly amazed in front of such talent ! But be careful, as Michel Tournier wrote in his book The meteors (1975): “Because it spreads its tails, the peacock has a reputation of vanity. It’s false, twice. The peacock doesn’t spread its tail. It’s not vain, it’s exhibitionnist. Because when it spreads its tail, the peacock takes off itself’s trousers and shows its ass”. A wine could be exhibitionnist ? Or perhaps Alain Delon ?