2013 Trump Winery Meritage
Community Tasting Note
Jay Hack wrote:
Monday, July 20, 2015 - Poured at the Trump Golf Course in Briarcliff Manor at the Mariano Rivera Foundation charity fundraiser.
The best thing I can say about this wine is that it was inoffensive. When someone asked me what it tasted like, I said it pretty much had no flavor at all. That's saying quite a bit for a five grape Bordeaux blend. How you can blend so many grapes and get so little flavor it a mystery. It didn't have any bad flavors, but didn't have any good ones either. Marginally acceptable as an alcohol delivery system, but it wasn't even very good at that, coming in at a solidly mediocre 13% ABV.
One of the people at my table asked me if I thought John McCain would like it. I said that if they served it at the Hanoi Hilton, I'm sure the "guests" would have loved it. But a free man would have so many better choices.
PS - No criticism of Rivera for the location of the event. I'm sure it was scheduled a very long time ago and they raised a boatload of money for his foundation, which does some really great work. He is a very admirable guy who has left baseball to pursue what may be an even greater passion for him - helping others. His wife is a local minister in New Rochelle and I think he may be a minister as well.
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