Year: 2012
Location: California
Price: $6.79 from the Smoke shop/booze palace down the road from my in-laws' house.
My general impression was....less than delightful.
Fancy wine people have a whole list of steps to go through in order to rate wine. I found a step-by-step guide here but skipped a few steps because they seemed stupid.
Step 1: Look at the wine. The wine looked very light. It was a rather unappealing pale yellow, clear, with no sediment except for what was already present in my not-very-well washed glass.
Step 2: Swirl the wine, note the viscosity. Um, medium viscosity? Maybe? I don't have much to base this on. More viscous than water. Less viscous than pancake syrup.
Step 3: Sniff the wine. From a few inches away, this wine smells like nothing. Closer, it smells like sour grapes. This should not be shocking. Closer still, it smells deceptively good. There are nice fruity tones. I am cautiously optimistic.
Step 4: Taste the damned wine already. My optimism evaporates in a cloud of disappointment, probably akin to parent whose child gets into college and chooses to major in philosophy. There had been hope, and then it was dashed to pieces. To be very honest, this wine simply doesn't taste good. Any fruity or floral notes that it may have boasted on the bottle are thin and watery, completely taken over by a biting burn of alcohol. There was, however, a lingering pungency that I did not anticipate.
Step 5: Drink a bunch more. After two liberal glasses, the wine did not taste any better. Indeed, I ended up pouring out half of the second glass. I was really a bit tipsy, though, so this selection did indeed get me good and boozy.
Overall, this was a thin and very alcoholic-tasting wine with a nasty afterburn that seemed like it would never go away, even when paired with a block of cheddar cheese from BJs, and a handful of croutons. I was out of crackers. Perhaps one could use this wine to cook with? I wouldn't do much else with it. Maybe mix it with sprite and a dash of grenadine and call it a spritzer. In a pinch, though, it will get you wasted if you can just choke it down.
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