Just plain awful. Smelled corked when I opened. Waited 30 minutes and then tasted. Tasted like corked, carbonated juice and poured down drain. Opened second bottle a few days later and not corked but still poured it out after one glass. It's carbonated and awful wine. Not sure what to do with last two bottles I purchased....won't even take to a bad party.
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For the first hour or so, unpleasantly like Coca Cola (carbonated, cola, terrible). After the carbonation leaves, it has a cola and dark berry flavor. Not bad (but there are better values for $11/bottle).
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Heavily reduced. Smells pretty terrible...so much so, I don't particularly want to taste it...but palate is better: a mix of blue and black fruit with some licorice freshness on the finish. Eager to impress but lacks focus (to quote one of my early school reports).
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Disappointing. Very tannic at the moment, with dense but characterless fruits. The finish tastes exactly like bacon frazzles (imitation bacon flavoured chips). Or smokey bacon pot noodle, either one. Definitely a miss.
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Definitely cola / carbonated beverage at the beginning, but with 30 minutes it settled and was very interesting. Cola, bark, then blueberries and dark fruits.
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I bought this wine as a case blow out, for $60/case. It was vastly overpriced. This wine was not bad in the insipid Two buck chuck or even gallon of Carlo Rossi Paisano manner. No, the wine is bold in your face OMG what did they do to it bad. The wine is basically undrinkable. I guess the best way to describe it is that this wine tasted like a$$. Now this may be a bit of speculation, as I have never actually tasted a$$, but if in my mind, this is what it must taste like. It almost had a slight frizzante to it, had a strong aroma of poop which carried over onto the palate. There was little to no fruit.
I honestly have no idea what to do with the other 11 bottles of the case. Again, this is not "break it out at the end of a long party bad", I could not force anybody that was in a festive mood to lose their happy feeling tasting this. I don't think I can even bring myself to give it to a friend, co-worker or even service person as a gift, as that kind of flies in the face of the word gift. I'm actually even a little bit afraid of what it might do to my pipes if I opened it and poured it down my drain.
Mrs. Coupe took a couple of sips and poured it out. I totally agreed with her assessment, but gave it some air, which only slightly helped.
Edited: The National Association of things that taste like A$$ (NAoTTTLA), read my note and has complained that its members DO NOT want to be associated or affiliated with this particular wine under any circumstances, claiming that any such association would cause things that truly do taste like a$$ to be looked at in a bad light...
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Interesting wine. Looking at the tasting notes from the previous vintage I'd have to agree with several things that others have noted, there is a carbonic similarity to both a cru beaujolais and some loire pinots, but there is also something like grenache showing. Overall not bad, and a decent value.
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3/1/2014 - seckhart wrote: 69 Points
Just plain awful. Smelled corked when I opened. Waited 30 minutes and then tasted. Tasted like corked, carbonated juice and poured down drain. Opened second bottle a few days later and not corked but still poured it out after one glass. It's carbonated and awful wine. Not sure what to do with last two bottles I purchased....won't even take to a bad party.
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8/4/2013 - Templet wrote: 87 Points
For the first hour or so, unpleasantly like Coca Cola (carbonated, cola, terrible). After the carbonation leaves, it has a cola and dark berry flavor. Not bad (but there are better values for $11/bottle).
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4/10/2013 - davestenton wrote:
Heavily reduced. Smells pretty terrible...so much so, I don't particularly want to taste it...but palate is better: a mix of blue and black fruit with some licorice freshness on the finish. Eager to impress but lacks focus (to quote one of my early school reports).
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3/28/2013 - 99tollap wrote: 73 Points
Disappointing. Very tannic at the moment, with dense but characterless fruits. The finish tastes exactly like bacon frazzles (imitation bacon flavoured chips). Or smokey bacon pot noodle, either one. Definitely a miss.
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12/15/2012 - sofarsolar wrote: 88 Points
Definitely cola / carbonated beverage at the beginning, but with 30 minutes it settled and was very interesting. Cola, bark, then blueberries and dark fruits.
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12/1/2012 - StaredAt wrote: 69 Points
Tasted like a carbonated beverage with some wine added.
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11/23/2012 - Coupe 60 Does not like this wine: 60 Points
I bought this wine as a case blow out, for $60/case. It was vastly overpriced. This wine was not bad in the insipid Two buck chuck or even gallon of Carlo Rossi Paisano manner. No, the wine is bold in your face OMG what did they do to it bad. The wine is basically undrinkable. I guess the best way to describe it is that this wine tasted like a$$. Now this may be a bit of speculation, as I have never actually tasted a$$, but if in my mind, this is what it must taste like. It almost had a slight frizzante to it, had a strong aroma of poop which carried over onto the palate. There was little to no fruit.
I honestly have no idea what to do with the other 11 bottles of the case. Again, this is not "break it out at the end of a long party bad", I could not force anybody that was in a festive mood to lose their happy feeling tasting this. I don't think I can even bring myself to give it to a friend, co-worker or even service person as a gift, as that kind of flies in the face of the word gift. I'm actually even a little bit afraid of what it might do to my pipes if I opened it and poured it down my drain.
Mrs. Coupe took a couple of sips and poured it out. I totally agreed with her assessment, but gave it some air, which only slightly helped.
Edited: The National Association of things that taste like A$$ (NAoTTTLA), read my note and has complained that its members DO NOT want to be associated or affiliated with this particular wine under any circumstances, claiming that any such association would cause things that truly do taste like a$$ to be looked at in a bad light...
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10/14/2012 - tirmi Likes this wine: 89 Points
Очень нетипичное полное вино. Сорт bobal. Похоже на zinfandel. Спайси
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10/14/2012 - sleepyhaus wrote:
Interesting wine. Looking at the tasting notes from the previous vintage I'd have to agree with several things that others have noted, there is a carbonic similarity to both a cru beaujolais and some loire pinots, but there is also something like grenache showing. Overall not bad, and a decent value.
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