John Glas wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 19, 2019 12:02 am
Prisoner wine company comes to mind. Low 80s for me. I have even convinced people who thought they liked it to hate it!
Oh dear. There is a bottle in the cellar, we were given it last Christmas. I wasn’t sure what to do with it. Regifting brings moral quandaries plus the risk of an awful mishap if I forget who the donor was.
Do a blind tasting with some none wine geeks. Make sure everyone does the proper tasting process and all of those non wine geeks will hate the wine. Did this with a bunch of Prisoner fans and they hated the over ripe, high alcohol mess the wine is.
Some of you have never been on a trip through the Northwest Missouri wine trail and it shows.
At one stop the 6 wines were organized by sweetness - least to most. The first wine was a Marechal Foch aged in Jack barrels, $35/btl. The second wine tasted like a 50/50 blend of Welch’s and Hershey’s chocolate syrup. We didn’t stick around for wine #3.
In the last year, 2016 Borne of Fire Cabernet Sauvignon The Burn. Absolutely god awful. I would have used it for cooking, but I didn’t want to ruin dinner.
More sorghum/millet IIRC, and really the perfect thing for peasant food and harsh winters. It made sense to me once I visited Guizhou (its birthplace) during the winter and got shitfaced with my parents. To be honest, I can think of many things worse