Welcome back to cheap wine, cheap reviews! My enterprise got interrupted by a cross country trip in an RV and settling into my new home. During that time, I drank Moderately Priced Beer instead of cheap wine because it just went a lot better with food cooked over a fire or a propane stove.
This bottle of Jacob's Creek can probably be found anywhere - we happened to pick it up in a Costco in Henrico County, Virginia to stock up for our trip. It's a 2004 vintage, which probably makes it the oldest wine on this list, not to mention one of the few that actually cares to boast its birth year on the label! Let's see how it stacks up to our previous contestants.
The first impression I get is sweetness, and it's not necessarily a good thing. I'm not a huge fan of overly dry wines, and I like to get a hint of the fruit that once existed before it was pulverized and left to rot in a barrel for months. But this tastes like grape juice with a little rubbing alcohol poured into it, and I am not pleased. The sweetness is supposed to linger at the end of the sip, not assault me at the beginning. Ugh, ugh, ugh!
Now, if I take pains to position the glass so that the wine hits the dead center of my tongue and skips the beginning, the assault is brunted, but I should not need to pinch my nose and tip wine down my throat. That is what vodka is for, and that spirit is usually enjoyed for its efficiency in inebriation, not for the way it tickles one's palette. (If you drink the kinds of vodka that are meant to be savored, you are probably reading the wrong blog.) I think that this wine is going to return to the back of the shelf and be used as Second or Third Glass wine, when the happy memories of better tasting glasses make me forget that this one is so bad.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
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