The Wine: 2008 Pinot Noir
The Price: $9.99 at Costco
Kris is an Italian winemaker. This wine is made from 100% Pinot Noir grapes. The grapes were grown in Oltrepò Pavese in Pavia Province, Lombardy.
The wine bottle was stopped with a screw cap and decanted 1 1/2 hours before tasting. The wine is a fairly deep ruby in color, with just a hint of a prune-brownish tone.
The wine has aromas of blackberries and cherries, and really nothing else is coming through.
This is a pretty harsh Pinot Noir. It has a forceful cherry flavor, backed by blackberry with a pronounced metalic note. It's fairly sour and has, really, no redeeming qualities. Well, that's not quite true - the label is kind of interesting. But even for a $10 bottle of Pinot Noir, this is pretty awful. The just may be the worst Pinot Noir I've ever tasted. The folks at Cloudline may be pleased to learn that they've been unseated as the worst Pinot Noir I've ever encountered.
1 comment:
Brutally honest he is!
Thanks, though. It's too bad, really - it may have had great potential.
:-)
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