“Bad wines, bad wines, Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they’re served to you?” Write tasting notes, that’s what!<\/p>\n
Culbertson NV Cuvee Rouge Sparkling Pinot<\/strong>: Brett, decayed strawberries, palate follows the nose. Nice start.<\/p>\n Royal Malgreb NV red<\/strong>: At least this has the color of wine. The best aspect was the TCA.<\/p>\n Vendange NV Pinot Noir<\/strong>: Nothing special, but it didn’t hurt us like the last two. All flavor scientifically removed.<\/p>\n ’85 Ridge Park-Muscatine zin<\/strong>: Classic example of a wine where the fruit has sacrificed itself to protect the acid and tannin.<\/p>\n ’90 Santa Rita Riserva Cabernet Sauvignon<\/strong> (Wine Spectator Critic’s Choice award): Musty, stemmy, not even vaguely resembling a fruit product. With a few years in the bottle now, the TCA has fully integrated.<\/p>\n ’85 La Tour Carnet (Bordeaux)<\/strong>: See, even the French are capable of putting vegetable juice in a wine bottle. And I coulda had a V-8!<\/p>\n ’87 Firestone Cabernet Sauvignon<\/strong>: What up wid dat? My face hurts.<\/p>\n ’85 Girard Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve<\/strong>: Excellent complexity, consisting of equal parts burning rubber and vegetables.<\/p>\n ’94 Buena Vista Merlot<\/strong>: Finally a wine we can swallow. For anything else, see “Vendange”.<\/p>\n ’86 William Hill Cabernet Sauvignon Gold Label<\/strong>: Crisp and vibrant, in the sense that battery acid is crisp and vibrant.<\/p>\n ’87 William Hill Cabernet Sauvignon Gold Label<\/strong>: The hallmark of a great winery is consistency year to year.<\/p>\n ’84 Sutter Home White Zin<\/strong>: The year is not a misprint. The aftertaste is similar to the taste in your mouth after a good vomit.<\/p>\n ’85 Sutter Home White Zin<\/strong>: Fortunately, this was horrendously corked.<\/p>\n ’86 Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon York Creek<\/strong>: Where have I smelled this before? Ah, got it! When I was about 14, a classmate sold me a baggie of a green leafy substance for $10, assuring me it was “really great shit!” It never occurred to my 14 year old hormone-addled brain that I should be suspicious of someone selling me “great shit” at half the going price. Quote of that week: “I don’t feel anything yet. Is that what it’s supposed to do?”<\/p>\n SY<\/p>\n “Bad wines, bad wines, Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they’re served to you?” Write tasting notes, that’s what! Culbertson NV Cuvee Rouge Sparkling Pinot: Brett, decayed strawberries, palate follows the nose. Nice start. Royal Malgreb NV red: At least this has the color of wine. The best aspect was the TCA. Vendange NV […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,129],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greatest-hits","category-wine-articles","tag-duds","has-post-title","no-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2blXF-yu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-stupids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-stupids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-stupids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-stupids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-stupids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-stupids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2738,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-stupids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/2738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-stupids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-stupids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-stupids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}