Variety: Sangiovese
Region: Puglia
Country: Italy
Year: 2010
Price: $2.50- Recommended to me by a seemingly homeless man in Trader Joe's. Thought it would be a good story if it was good. It wasn't.
Shop: Trader Joe's
Review: This wine was terrible. It has a 13% alcohol content, and that is first and last thing you taste. It definitely burns like a shot, there is a faint resemblance to wine but only in the finish. And you can barely appreciate it due to the fact that you are wondering if your throat will ever grow that layer of skin back. I followed the steps provided by Gary on Wine TV. I swirled it first and smelled the wine immediately afterwards. The first bad sign was that all I could smell on the first try was vinegar. It reminded me of salad and cheap balsamic (my family is Italian and I am a vinegar snob). I swirled it again and I was able to detect a faint fruity smell, closest to berries. There was also a distinct bread smell. I thought this must be the yeast. It turned me off a little, although I do not know yet if I should have been excited by this smell. It might be a good thing in other wines. Then I tasted it, and I am sorry but I only had the endurance to do this once due to my low pain tolerance. It burned all the way down. I think the reason it was such a bad experience was because I was not expecting it to resemble hard liquor so closely. I did taste a red wine, not particularly dry, then the burn hit and I was too taken aback to register much more beyond the thought, "I am never taking the advice of a homeless man ever again." There is also a sort of apple after taste. Again, I was trying really hard to discern anything beyond the burn so I am not certain. The end was not so bad after the alcoholic burn went away. After a while longer it just felt like I had swallowed rubbing alcohol, all flavor was gone.
I tasted it two hours later like Drink This Now suggested. There was no change.
Leaving it out overnight was not effective either.
I plan on using this wine to clean my pipes if they ever get clogged with hair, but not ever again for drinking.
I'm sorry you don't have a taste for this wine, but it is in fact a delicious version of Sangiovese red wine. Even comprable to more expensive brandings of Sangiovese. The only thing that bothers me about your blog was your snobbish approach. Suggesting the man might as well be compared to a homeless man shows poor judge of character on your end, and like I said: you came off as a snob. Poor blog. Very bad assessment of this wine too.
ReplyDeleteI agree w/ previous comment on every count.
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