I’m no wine snob but I like to try different varietals and brands occasionally. I’m wondering if anyone has tasted wine from one of Trumps wineries and whether or not they enjoyed it.
Please refrain from bringing politics into this thread as I’m just curious about the wine itself and not interested regarding opinions about the owners.
Thanks,
It’s TRUMP wine, because that’s what is on the bottle, using the same font as US currency. I haven’t had it, but I’ve read that the sparkling wine is pretty good, but the rest range from okay to mediocre. At $20-$50 a bottle, there’s better stuff for your money.
That reminds me, my wine rack is getting a little low on not-so-fancy wine…
I found a review of four Trump wines by a website called Vinepair , which is apparently all about alcohol:
At VinePair, drinking is culture. We’re a group of people obsessed with experiences centered around drinking and connecting them to everything else in their lives from news, to politics, to arts, to sports and culture. We hold a firm belief in the distinct difference between covering drinking in a thought provoking way, and covering drinking in a way that is disrespectful and celebrates overindulgence. Our content fuels the conversations people have over a drink.
They had help from the wine director of a NYC restaurant and they reviewed 4 wines; I selected brief quoted from each mini-review:
Blanc de Blancs
Victoria: This isn’t bad. It was probably acidified. As if it’s been toyed with.
VinePair: How do you identify that?
Victoria: It’s kind of Botox-y, it doesn’t feel completely natural. I do think it’s pretty delicious, and refreshing. But there’s a juxtaposition there—because it’s traditional method, you get that lees-y, Champagne quality, but then it’s not rich enough, and the acidity is disjointed. So it’s kind of trying to be a Prosecco, kind of trying to be a Champagne. $24 isn’t bad, but you could get some other great things for that price.
Viognier
VP: I actively dislike this wine. You know when you walk through the department store and they’re spraying perfume and you accidentally walk through it?
Victoria: Pungent. Like cheap perfume. I actually love the sparkling now, compared to this.
Meritage
Victoria: This could actually be much more offensive. There’s not a ton of new oak, there’s not crazy high alcohol. The nose is true to the varieties—you get those black fruits and red fruits. It’s not great, nor is it terrible.
VP: I would probably think this was just cheap Bordeaux if someone blinded me on this.
Victoria: It tastes super cheap. But, it’s correct. It’s also just really boring. Like painfully boring.
New World Reserve
Victoria: Well, the new oak softens it out. But it’s still disjointed.
VP: What do you mean by that?
Victoria: It just feels played with. For example if you’re making lemonade, you’re mixing the water, lemon juice, and sugar, and you want it to be balanced. Let’s say you want to make a diet version, so you use Splenda instead—and it’s no longer balanced, the natural acidity is overpowered by that weird sweetness, and it just feels off. They might be using artificial tannins, perhaps.
VP: How do you actually add tannin?
Victoria: It’s like a big bag of white stuff, and it’s just artificial tannin. I don’t think they are adding oak chips, though. You can tell money went into this wine. It tastes expensive but it has no soul.
I wonder how sales are doing? It would have been cool if they did this (double/single) blind, though.
Probably going to be next CA governor and Patrick Bateman lookalike Gavin Newsom is also a wine guy. It’s hardly swill.