Wine review/PSA
I got a gift certificate to Spec’s for Christmas, which was of course all kinds of exciting. Even more exciting, when I went to use it I discovered that a Nautico wine I’d been wanting to try was on sale. Score!
This one is a 2006 blend of semillon (93%) and sauvignon blanc (7%). Now, I love sauvignon blancs but hadn’t ever tried a semillon before. And I’m not likely to try one again.
Ladies, you know how it smells when you get a perm? That horribly noxious ammonia smell? Yeah. That’s exactly how this wine smells when you first open the bottle. And let me tell you, it’s awfully hard to get past that odor. I’ve never tasted that perm solution stuff, but I imagine that this wine was pretty damn close.
Maybe I’m unfairly blaming the semillon and it was actually the “tropical infusion” – whatever the hell that is – that made this wine nasty. Either way, I won’t be going back for seconds. (A second bottle, that is. Because of course I managed to finish this one off. Otherwise it would have been wasteful, and that will never do.)
February 21st, 2010 at 4:34 pm
EWW gross!!! I was wondering if you finished it. But thats my girl!!
I would have of course done the same thing!! I put DOWN a bottle of wine I wanted at Target last night then seriously regretted it when I got home and The Notebook was on TV. Must have wine to cry your eyes out to that IMO. So I had to improvise with ginger ale (from Bear being sick) and little itty bitty bottles of crown royal I had in the liquor cabinet. Wasn’t too bad actually.
February 22nd, 2010 at 6:04 pm
I can personally vouch for the skunkiness of that wine. It smelled horrible.
February 23rd, 2010 at 8:44 am
I too have that “this is awful, but I can’t waste it” mentality. It sucks.