http://decanterberrytales.com/blog/tags/romania/ Decanterberry Tales - A Willamette Valley Wine Blog ... wine, pinot noir, etc en Decanterberrytales.com Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:19:00 GMT Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net) http://backend.userland.com/rss http://decanterberrytales.com/blog/2008/11/14/1226693295660.html <img width="154" height="205" alt="" src="http://dnj.netx.net/view/0179/p_17945.jpg" /><br /> <br /> Yikes! This wine is indeed scary. Okay, it was Halloween, and these places put these funny labels on their wine. And we're suckers enough to fall for the label. Halloween + Dracula ... how you can you not buy such a bottle of red? But, then there's what's inside.<br /> <br /> The nose, in a word: turpentine. If you can get past the singed nose hairs, there's some strawberry, currant -- oh, and the smell of Jolly Rancher. Not sure the flavor of that JR, but it definitely smelled like candy.<br /> <br /> The best way to describe the taste was that it was like a thin Chianti. If I had tasted this blindly, I would have sworn it to be a Sangiovese, not a Cab! But that's label says. The flavor was also infected with a metallic taste, and sardines! It was just not good, and sour.<br /> <br /> ...<br /> <br /> That was the first day. So I sucked all the air out of the bottle and sealed it. Then, I drank it the next night, and it wasn't terrible. It still tasted like a (thin) Chianti -- that remained. However, that strong turpentine smell was gone, leaving it drinkable enough. <br /> <strong><br /> Cost:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <img align="absmiddle" alt="" src="/images/2dollars.png" /><br /> <br /> Rating:&nbsp;<img align="absmiddle" alt="" src="/images/45stars.png" />&nbsp;&nbsp; 4.5</strong> http://decanterberrytales.com/blog/2008/11/14/1226693295660.html#comments http://decanterberrytales.com/blog/2008/11/14/1226693295660.html Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:08:15 GMT