List THREE WORDS in a TN of a wine you're gonna dislike

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extracted
stunning(ly)
and the ever popular hedonistic

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In any nonpejorative review thin is a word I don’t like to read, soft and round are others.

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Tobacco - am allergic so it is a flavor I just do not “get” if it is heavily present such as in Rioja
Any or all green vegetables - just not a fan
Highly extracted - I guess another way to say hedonistic

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I guess these all kind of run together, but the first that came to me:
Ripe
Hot
Sweet

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Does “pain grille” count as one word or two for the purposes of discussion?

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Vanilla
Dill
Raisin

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Sine

Qua

Non

Just joking.

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“Really needs food.”

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Ripe
Chocolate
Blueberry

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Banana
Creamy
Piney

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Agree with those who observer that we should assume you mean words intended to describe positive attributes. Absent that qualification, I’ll go with “robitussin”; “vodka”; and “drank”. With the qualification - “melted asphalt” (one phrase, and different from Nebbiolo ‘tar’); “mouth-coating”; “buttery”.

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Green
Graphite
Lead Pencil

I don’t want my red wine to be green. I don’t want it to smell like 3rd grade detention either.

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Barnyard
Leather
Balsamic and its variants (eucalyptus, menthol, cedar…)

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I

HATE

THIS

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40th

Anniversary

Parker

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Smooth
Legs
Grapey

Actually those things all say more about the taster than the wine.

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+1

could not have found three better words.

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Excerpts of a professional TN from a wine email offer today (which I won’t be ordering):

Full-bodied, viscous … blast of fruit, glycerin and heady alcohol …rich … for pleasure seekers

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Had to be you or Michael being difficult. Obviously I didn’t mean 0% new oak. But you knew that.

As for the note on geek wines with a cult following, I have no doubt you’re right. Fortunately I haven’t seen those geek wines in my daily blasts, so ignorance is bliss in this case.

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I don’t think of eucalyptus, menthol and cedar as in any way related to balsamic. In fact, while I don’t generaly care for balsamic (which I sometimes note in older wines), eucalyptus/menthol is a note that I genuinely like and seek out.