I'll start off the wine review with this ... winner. At $3.99 a bottle when I walked into West Ridge Liquor I knew I wasn't going to find a strong winner, but I had hoped it might be a little flashy, perhaps a bit strong in one characteristic.Boy was I wrong.
The shopping carts full of this wine should have been the hint, but I just didn't take it.
Scores: modified from the beer tasting, first number is 0-3 and is appearance, aroma/smell, etc. Second number is 0-9, and is taste taste taste. Third number is 0-9, and is 'finish', which could entail pretty much everything else after that. A wine too chilled might fair poorly on aroma, but then be re-tried later (which is what I do with beers as well).
Aroma: 0
Taste: 2
Finish: 2
No aroma, varietal or otherwise, to speak of. Color was lackluster in the glass.
The taste was not unpleasant but just lacked, like every other aspect, anything. It tasted as if it were a 'thin' wine- one that had had water to fineness it's fermentation (say, recover from a stuck, etc). There were no tannins to speak of.
Finish: Nothing doing. No spreading flavour, not a single smidge of varietal pepper left on the back of your tongue.
As a mulled wine this might work- but even at that price you're better off grabbing jug wines.
Opinion: Skip it.
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