2019 Mo Yeah! Mourvèdre blend: below is not the CT review, which you can look up if you care. Spoiler: I liked it.
In the old days - in living memory - Christmas cake was not a sort of dry brick with radioactively colorful fruit bits studding the dark flesh of cake under 3 inches of white hard sauce to make it sickly and sweetly “palatable”. Nor was it an architectural monstrosity shown on the Food Network to confuse people into thinking this was what food is supposed to look like.
No, in the old days - in living memory - Christmas cake was a delightful balance, with currants and cranberries and candied plums with just a touch of orange zest and just enough rum to bring it all together.
This is the old kind of Christmas cake. It’s kindness in a bottle. Some great wines go down like silk. This does not go down like silk. If you’ve been raking leaves or shoveling snow all day, silk does you no good. You want cotton and flannel. This goes down like your favorite old cotton pyjamas, or like your favorite herbal tea (if you like those - but I’d much rather have this!).
I need to mention that this was very different (in my experience) from the 2022 Marvelous Mourvèdre. This was nominally closer to what I would expect from a Mourvèdre but that’s not really the point: this was also delicious in a very different way from the almost electric 2022 MM. I love the surprises: EWCY! wines are always something new.