Blowout purchase at Costco over the holidays: Erath Pinot.
I think it’s wine, I am not sure based on the flavor. I have one bottle left and will try and leave it open on a picnic table at a summer BBQ and hope someone drinks it by mistake.
Taking chances on buying old bottles, I recently found two out of eight burgs still showing cloudy after 14 days standing up. It looks terrible when pointing a flashlight contact-close to the bottle… Sure enough the 1962 Clouturier, Aloxe-Corton, -and a 1978 Lancart-L’ainée, Vosne-R village, were very very dead when popped.
I got them in some mixed lots online, and so cheap, that the eventual refunds and My return-costs will be equal.
No problem here. If only a few sings, then I’m happy.
My last bad new bottle, was a 2003 Louis Latour, Corton Grancey. Weird flat raisin sweet, -others drank the rest without complaining !
I feel for you but not sure if corked wines should count here (unless perhaps there’s evidence it’s prevalent in a particular winery).
To me this should be about really bad winemaking.
2016 19 Crimes ‘The Banished’. Was part of a three pack of Aussie reds given to my wife by a co-worker for Christmas. The regular 19 Crimes Red Wine is bad; this is hideous. Tastes like it was manufactured in a middle school chemistry lab, with lots of residual sugar and coconuty oak, and sporting a hue that can best be described as liquid purple marker. Just gross.