Here’s my recollection a recently samples bottle of cheap red wine:
" exquisite overtones of skunk, rotten garlic, and rancid butter fortify the bouquet…hints of gasoline and lubricating oil enhace the bite…a full nose of scents reminiscent of spoilage, mildew, and damp cardboard titillate the nose…body: deep and full, with hints of reddi-whip and a buttery finish, slides down the palate like day-old bread… truly a vintage to be savored…serve chilled, with pig’s feet or overdone canbbage". How’s that. oenologists? Can ya guess the vintage?
Well, I know you’re (I mean, I HOPE you’re) not being serious, because if you were, I’d say you had the misfortune of finding the worst/unluckiest bottle of wine in the WORLD.
And your descriptors are actually very good ones for a seriously flawed wine. They are all terms used by professional wine judges.
I wouldn’t be able to tell you the vintage date, but I *could *use my fancy college book learnin’ and tell you what is causing the characteristics you described and what during the winemaking process put them in there. Ooooooh! I knew they’d come in handy!
Sulfide Flaws - Mercaptans
Diethyl Disulphide – garlic, onion, burnt rubber, kerosene
1,1-Dimethylethanethiol – Skunk
Usually the result of a reaction between ethanol and hydrogen sulfide. (Poor winemaking, a good vintner should be able to monitor and prevent this early on.)
Diacetyl – It’s a by-product of malolactic (a secondary) fermention.
In many chards a small amount is positive, (buttery), in large amounts it is a flaw (rancid butter), and it’s usually not a characteristic associated with red wines. (Again, poor winemaking.)
2,4,6 Trichloroanisole – Cork taint – Wet cardboard/newspaper, musty, moldy, wet basement. It’s the reaction of a growth found naturally in cork with the chlorine used to treat it. It’s the number one reason most winemakers would prefer not to use natural cork on their wines. It is not something they can control, and it’s not detected until after the bottle is opened by an unfortunate consumer.
If you really did experience a wine this bad, I’d recommend returning it, but I don’t think I’d be willing to chance another bottle from the same winery, I’d ask for my money back!
Wine is great, it has some trouble with different windows apps though.
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Nice! Clever with a hint of geeky!
Check out Wineass (caution, strong language on the site and in the clips, but otherwise OK) for some interesting and different reviews.
Some of the reviews are pretty funny, some annoying, some silly, but overall it’s a fun, down to earth site.
I have noticed that there are links to purchase every wine reviewed at BevMo, so I’m not entirely unconvinced that there is a larger marketing scheme or group behind the site, but it’s fun nonetheless.
And to be fair, these folks could truly only buy their wines at BevMo, or have only bought wines from there so far, or are just trying to make it easy for their readers to find the wine they review, that’s just me being skeptical I guess.
And crud, I rescind that statement. I emailed the guy and he replied saying they buy from all over but BevMo has a good supply and is easy to link to. I’ll buy that. And I like the site even more now.
Quit yer wining.
Off to Cafe Society.