(Feb 19, 2021)The bottle is aluminum! That's cute. It doesn't have a year but don't worry - it's not Boone's Farm or anything.
This is a Pink Nasty but not for the Boone's Farm reasons. It's a Rose, which I imagine means that grapes are involved (not strawberries or apples or - I dunno - fermented oranges or anything).
The wine itself is kinda sweet and kinda dry. I know, that doesn't make any sense. Us Wine Snobs can be like that. It's a Zen thing, you know? Like - what is both light and dark?
Except this wine isn't a Zen thing.
Okay. It's only half a bottle which is a blessing. I know that aluminum isn't supposed to be reactive, so maybe it's just that the wine has a bit of a metallic taste. The taste isn't 'bad'. I want to leave those quotes there and you can do what you will with them.
The worst part is the plastic bit at the top that holds the screw-top in place. It has this smell - a bad plasticky kind of smell. A bit like skunk and a bit like a diaper and a bit like a tire fire. Not horrible but none of those make me think 'oh yum! I am looking forward to pouring THIS in my face!'
Perhaps if I poured this into a glass I wouldn't get that initial thing. Let me find a glass here....
Well it might be different if I had rinsed my coffee cup out but, honestly, the slight bit of coffee flavor was the best part about that sip. The diaper taste is still there too.
Your mileage may vary - I've made wine from my fucked up grape arbor before that my wife and her brewmaster friend both like, but it's always tasted like bandaids to me. Maybe it's a guy thing? Tasting bandaids?
This wine is bad and I feel bad for drinking it. I've had worse - significantly worse! - but I used to be a dumbass who intentionally chose White Grenache so that's nothing to speak of.
I give it a full sad.
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