pen to help finish it off upon their return. The theory was that it might need to be decanted a bit - when we all met back up at the house it had been decanted an hour. Unfortunately, the decanting didn't have sufficient effect. We were collectively dissapointed. Josh and I both agreed that it sort of felt like we had a cold and couldn't really taste this one. Neither of us actually do. Becky put it perhaps most eloquently when she said it felt like we were tasting the wine through a ball of gauze. In an attempt to improve out tasting experience, Becky dimmed the lights...this is apparently a technique that has worked from her on past occasions....not this time beck-o. This juice really seemed to not hold it's structure - seemed to die on the front end - as Josh put it much more alliteratively, the finish falls flat. Becky's rather belligerent final assesment was simply "Fuck this, fuck it, not worth 30 bucks." well put Beckster. A more G-rated sentimet was expressed by Josh, who lamented "it’s not like you are drinking bad wine, but is just kind of like a sophisticated dud. It’s like a C student at Yale, and we all know where that has gotten us." Overall this group was not impressed. On to the next one. C+ tasting wine - demoted to a C for the price inflation/lack of value factor.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Stag's Leap Petite Sirah 2005: C
Beck-o, Josh and I gathered at chez hale-wilson to do a little petite-sirah comparison tasting. We started with the Stag's leap, purchased at Trader Joe's in Alexandria for, what Josh recalls to be "around 30 bucks". Josh and Becky started this wine out with their houseguest for the weekend, Annie Z, then realized they had to zip her to the airport so I was called in from the bull
pen to help finish it off upon their return. The theory was that it might need to be decanted a bit - when we all met back up at the house it had been decanted an hour. Unfortunately, the decanting didn't have sufficient effect. We were collectively dissapointed. Josh and I both agreed that it sort of felt like we had a cold and couldn't really taste this one. Neither of us actually do. Becky put it perhaps most eloquently when she said it felt like we were tasting the wine through a ball of gauze. In an attempt to improve out tasting experience, Becky dimmed the lights...this is apparently a technique that has worked from her on past occasions....not this time beck-o. This juice really seemed to not hold it's structure - seemed to die on the front end - as Josh put it much more alliteratively, the finish falls flat. Becky's rather belligerent final assesment was simply "Fuck this, fuck it, not worth 30 bucks." well put Beckster. A more G-rated sentimet was expressed by Josh, who lamented "it’s not like you are drinking bad wine, but is just kind of like a sophisticated dud. It’s like a C student at Yale, and we all know where that has gotten us." Overall this group was not impressed. On to the next one. C+ tasting wine - demoted to a C for the price inflation/lack of value factor.
pen to help finish it off upon their return. The theory was that it might need to be decanted a bit - when we all met back up at the house it had been decanted an hour. Unfortunately, the decanting didn't have sufficient effect. We were collectively dissapointed. Josh and I both agreed that it sort of felt like we had a cold and couldn't really taste this one. Neither of us actually do. Becky put it perhaps most eloquently when she said it felt like we were tasting the wine through a ball of gauze. In an attempt to improve out tasting experience, Becky dimmed the lights...this is apparently a technique that has worked from her on past occasions....not this time beck-o. This juice really seemed to not hold it's structure - seemed to die on the front end - as Josh put it much more alliteratively, the finish falls flat. Becky's rather belligerent final assesment was simply "Fuck this, fuck it, not worth 30 bucks." well put Beckster. A more G-rated sentimet was expressed by Josh, who lamented "it’s not like you are drinking bad wine, but is just kind of like a sophisticated dud. It’s like a C student at Yale, and we all know where that has gotten us." Overall this group was not impressed. On to the next one. C+ tasting wine - demoted to a C for the price inflation/lack of value factor.
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