Archive for May, 2006
How do you spell Syrah?
This one is spelled, cheaply and quickly. Don’t waste your time asking for a definition or using spell check. It’s not worth it.
This is another find at Trader Joe’s which, in the past, has proven very positive. This find is a real disappointment, nothing special about this wine.
Overly fruity smell, with a confusing body. The inital taste is flat, with a quick boring ending. The fruit is left in the mouth, with a sweet dullness.
This wine is bad.
May 8th, 2006
I went to bat for this wine, swam oceans, and compromised like a good marriage, but was still disappointed. I chilled it, I warmed it, I even sweet talked it, and yet nothing. The end result, dry dry dry.
At $9.99, I had a little hope that this would be something to talk about. But what was really the seller was the fancy graph on the back that displayed the correct drinking age of the wine (3-7 years after vintage). Boy do I feel like a dummy. Put fancy labeling on your wines and they will sell like cheap land in California (no such thing). Ok, the wine did have a slight aroma of blackberries, but you have to use your imagination. The texture had a lot of acidity but no real character to back it up with like in a Cabernet. Whats with the tannin overload. I got to go rinse my mouth out with beer.
May 4th, 2006
Yellow Tail, the Ford or Chevy of Australian wines so it is allowed to disappoint once in a while.
At $4.99, I did not have high expectations and this wine did not give me any surprises. The nose was rather weak but did display peachy vanilla and coconut aromas, as claimed on the bottle. I just would not use the phrase “leaps from the glass”. This wine was easy to drink, I guess, because I forgot about the whole experience after the bottle was gone. Don’t get me wrong, It is not a horrible wine, I have just had better chardonnays (Pepperwood Grove). Probably good with chicken or pasta but no need to rush out and get this baby.
May 3rd, 2006