Sitting down in the warm afternoon SoCal weather helps to abate the disappointment here.
Normally a big fan of the Woodstock Collection, today I was disappointed.
A very pleasant nose of fresh, ripe, red fruit, but followed by a slight taste of sour cherries (using the venturi made it taste worse). Ironically, it smells and tastes like a GSM, though it claims to be a Cabernet-based wine (100% Cabernet from Alexander Valley).
Drinkable, but not spectacular.
Wine-searcher has it for $19.99 Ironically from Wade's…
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Updated: We tried the wine after storing half the bottle in a hand-vacuum pump. Ironically, it got much better. It took on structure and tasted more like a complex blend from Tuscany or Bordeaux. Now the trick is to figure out how to "oxidize it, just right" consistently.
Updated: We tried the wine after storing half the bottle in a hand-vacuum pump. Ironically, it got much better. It took on structure and tasted more like a complex blend from Tuscany or Bordeaux. Now the trick is to figure out how to "oxidize it, just right" consistently.
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