Community Tasting Note
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Fractalage Likes this wine: 93 points
November 7, 2017 - Let stand for a month before opening.
Initial pour had color of translucent blood. Slight brown edges.
It's bouquet had big fruit of plum and musty grassy leaves soaked in an old wooden barrel.
On the palate I was expecting big fruit but to my pleasure had no sweetness: It was bone dry, salty savory. As it opened up and the rare ribeye consumed the flavor of tobacco and tar emerged. Crushed rocks and asphalt were a joy to imbibe. The finish was spicey with a carribean type bite of island heat. I counted 40 seconds of interesting evolution of finish taking a dry mineral spice into a touch of banana peel end.
Excellent real wine.
8/10
With wines like this to be imported at such a low price, why ever try a Cali wine and roll the dice on manipulated tastes? I swear, almost EVERY time I buy Cali I'm disappointed and feel ill at imbibing deleterious chemicals. (I'm talking about the supposedly good $50+ wholesale types, such as Mondavi) Wine should NEVER make you feel sick or give hangover!
Real wine will uplift and give vitality. The next day make you feel refreshed and energized. Real wine is medicine: good for your health!
USA - clean up your act! Quit poisoning your consumers!5 people found this helpful 4,289 views
2 Comments
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pdxpinotlover commented:
12/30/17, 8:22 PM - I hope your tinfoil hat isn't on too tight. If you prefer old world that is fine. Perhaps branch out into OR and WA. Not that most CA producers aren't using sound winemaking practices. Way to say an entire state's winemaking industry is poisoning consumers. Bravo!
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Fractalage commented:
12/15/19, 9:00 PM - Ha, yes, California wine industry IS poisoning us!
Wake up.
Tin foil hat? That won't protect you from Glyphosate.
What, you don't know that this chemical is in every American wine tested? And that it causes cancer?
Look it up.
Maybe Oregon is cleaner and more true to source, but not California. Manipulation is the norm. There are, however many exceptions, but they comprise less than .1% of the CA wine produced.
Facts are facts.
Your ignorance of the facts doesn't eliminate the fact that the vast majority of CA wine is poison.