2013 Wölffer Estate Sagaponack

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 76.5 points

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  9/2/2016 - jamesdlandis Does not like this wine: 71 Points

  Worst wine I ever spent nearly $20 on.
  
  I can't tell from the label whether this is the same wine as the Classic Red Blend, which is from Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. This wine is not on the Wolffer website.
  
  In any case, it seems almost certainly a blend and they might have told us, in all the space they take up on the back label with generalizations and self-praise, just what we're drinking here. Or perhaps they thought that the sort of people who would drink this dreck wouldn't care what grapes are in it. (And would buy it for its nice label--you don't even have to like horses to find it attractive--and its slim tall heavyish bottle.)
  
  The wine is insipid, undistinguished, suitable for no food (I've tried it over four days with all sorts of cuisines, looking for a place for its sorry self).
  
  I used to live in Sagaponack (a bit before Hargraves was founded on Long Island's North Fork (I don't believe there were any wineries on the South Fork, the location of Wolffer). I enjoyed my wedding dinner at The American Hotel in Sag Harbor; we took in, in 1983, magnums of 1966 Leoville Barton and some 1963 Sandeman's Port for dessert, and lest this trigger me as a wine snob, I'll just say that I had with my lunch today a $5 rosé from Argentina and will have for dinner a Zinfandel in a box from Bota (which is pretty bad but better than this Wolffer Estate wine).
  
  I was planning an off-season trip to Long Island to visit wineries. Not so sure now. A bad bottle of wine is very bad for tourism!

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  12/8/2015 - pdev wrote: 82 Points

  showing sulfur on first pour, bit of a rough ride, funky, bit out of balance, was hoping for more from 2013.

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