Found July 2010
One bad wine deserves another. This is my second wine tonight, as I am trying a few wines from the '02 vintage, that strike me as 'need to try now'. I guess I have to admit I have not picked the best wines to give this a go with, but I have to open each and every bottle in its turn (and as i am packing up there are certain wines that strike me as either drink now or ditch wines). Tonight this bottle had its turn and in truth I wish I had left it lost. This wine had sweet fruit at some point in its life, though I am not sure whether it was designed as an off-dry red or just a juicy sweet thing - the name suggests an off-dry red to chill and enjoy in the summertime, like maybe the summer of 2003. This wine is now 8 years from vintage date and the smell is faintly sweet, yet with oxidative notes. The cork was like a sponge, the corkscrew sunk deep and quick and actually pushed the cork deeper into the bottle. Once in, the cork did not take any effort to come out, it slipped out without the use of the lever on the corkscrew, just a simple pull up and out. This wine tasted like a Manechevitz sacramental wine that had gone bad - odd and unappealing. Lost & Found Rating: Trash
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