Friday, April 10, 2015

Is it just me or is the wine really bad?

I have been getting a lot of bad wine this year. It makes me think maybe I am just imagining it, but I don't think so. I think the place where I usually get my wine (the closest store) may not be storing their wine well. But then again, I knew I should not have gotten this wine! I think the last time I had it, it was bad. Today it is drinkable, but not enjoyably so. The finish is really what's bad. Even on the nose this is so. At first it is like a pleasant bottle of wine, and then there is a musty finish, though it is not really strong. Taste wise it better when I swish it, but it is still sour with a musty finish. Hopefully, it will open up and the bad will go away. I decided to let it breathe. We'll see how it does in a couple hours. I really knew I should have gotten that other bottle, but it was more, and I was able to get two of these with a twenty. A year or two ago this was  very nice wine. To be fair to the store, it may be a mistake or chance with the maker. After all:





 So it may be nobody but God's fault. But still....I knew I should not have gotten it! Why didn't I listen to my judgment. Don't you just hate when you do that? It makes you want to beat yourself in the head:


Sunday, April 5, 2015

2011 Gabbinao Chiatni Classico


 I got this wine for a good deal, about $15 marked down at my local Kroger wine shop. One the nose I do not get much, mostly berries, pepper, and even some vanilla interestingly. Tongue wise I get a very pleasant finish, and the finish is really what seems to make this wine pleasant. It is pepper with a sweet leather, if that makes any sense. The finish is long. You get the leather and pepper drinking it, too. I also get on the finish a stoney taste, which is likely the dryness mixed with the tannins. That lasts the longest taste wise. I really like it. I think I cannot be the only weird kid who used to eat all sorts of stuff, like rocks. Well, I did not swallow them, but I'd put them in my mouth. In any case, this was a pleasant wine, especially once it opened up. I suggest that--open it up for at least an hour. Right of the bottle it was not that great, though it was decent. Of course temperature matters. My house is about 70 degrees, so throwing in the fridge could have helped. As for score, I would give this an 87. Medium to full dryness.