Provenance: a little pink house about to be demolished, found on a bar cart and purchased for 3 big ones.
Appearance: Medium amber color, unused motor oil.
On the nose: extremely sweet and musty, raisin, mango, papaya, overripe plum.
Tastes: surprisingly bright and sour, lemon, grapefruit, medium body and mellow sweet aftertaste with a hint of turnip.
Definitely the oldest wine I’ve drunk. Not stored properly and pretty sure it’s corked. Couldn’t find anything about the bottle or the maker online so fairly sure it’s worthless, and if I had purchased for any more than 3$ I might be a little uspet at the experience.
by SmokeDetectorJoe
3 Comments
I love that you gave it a crack.
Oh it’s definitely was not worth anything as you say, but A. This is pretty awesome that you actually opened it and gave us notes instead of asking us about it, and B. If it actually still had some sweet fruit left, there is a chance it might not be corked, as you describe (if corked, at this point that would probably just smell like damp old cardboard or basement), and instead it could just be oxidized, really like bruised old apples. Do you think one of those two descriptors is more accurate?
None of your notes indicate a corked bottle. I’d go back and buy the rest.