Kay Bixler
Kay Bixler
It actually happened. Someone gave me free wine and all that was asked in return was my honest opinion. Looks like the old blog is really paying off. So with two bottles of inexpensive Spanish wine in hand I went home to make pizza and begin a new career as a professional wine blogger.
The wines, a tempranillo from La Mancha and a Priorat red (50/50 garnacha and carinena), both from 2008 were not very good at all. Friends were called in for the occasion and encouraged to comment on the sample bottles. I mean fuck actually doing any work for this project, let them talk and I'll just write down the consensus opinion. Easy as blog. And the consensus opinion was both wines tasted pretty much identical and that taste was flat Dr. Brown's cream soda. Neither had much aroma or acidity and both had this vanilla scented smoothness that was kind of creepy. Gripless, vanilla ghost tannin is the best way to describe it. This has to be spoof induced so I poked around and sure enough there is a product available to give any wine vanilla flavored false tannin:
To put the world right again we opened another '99 Les Picasses from Pierre Breton and enjoyed it even more than the last, especially after visiting the dark side.
And now, with a clear head and the vanilla flavor washed from my mouth, it is becoming clear that free wine does indeed have a price and the shop owner who provided the wine was just dodging a bullet by pawning the bottles off on me so I could confirm what he most certainly already knew. I feel dirty. Used. And I want my money back.
Best,
Kay
The wines, a tempranillo from La Mancha and a Priorat red (50/50 garnacha and carinena), both from 2008 were not very good at all. Friends were called in for the occasion and encouraged to comment on the sample bottles. I mean fuck actually doing any work for this project, let them talk and I'll just write down the consensus opinion. Easy as blog. And the consensus opinion was both wines tasted pretty much identical and that taste was flat Dr. Brown's cream soda. Neither had much aroma or acidity and both had this vanilla scented smoothness that was kind of creepy. Gripless, vanilla ghost tannin is the best way to describe it. This has to be spoof induced so I poked around and sure enough there is a product available to give any wine vanilla flavored false tannin:
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To put the world right again we opened another '99 Les Picasses from Pierre Breton and enjoyed it even more than the last, especially after visiting the dark side.
And now, with a clear head and the vanilla flavor washed from my mouth, it is becoming clear that free wine does indeed have a price and the shop owner who provided the wine was just dodging a bullet by pawning the bottles off on me so I could confirm what he most certainly already knew. I feel dirty. Used. And I want my money back.
Best,
Kay