Since this week is the time of the year that this sub sees the most spectacular bottles ever getting posted, I decided to go against the grain and share some of my most disappointing experiences 🙂 Please find below my 5 tasting notes on the worst wines of the year. These are only the wines that a) I have written tasting notes on, b) are technically sound. So, there is neither Black Girl Magic Bubbly Riesling that I had in a movie theatre, nor a bretty Swiss Pinot Noir that smelled like floor mop. I hope at least someone will find this fun 😉
**5. Josh Cellars “Legacy” Red Blend 2022**
Smells of plum, blackberry, and, surprisingly, peach. Jam, chocolate, and smoke. I don’t find this pleasant: it’s ripe and disharmonious.
On the palate, there is a touch of RS yet it’s very tart with medium+ acidity and bruised fruit notes. Wood, bruised blackberry and blueberry. Bay leaf maybe.
5/18 I really don’t like this. It keeps reminding me of fruit that has spent too much in the fridge.
**4. Barefoot Moscato NV**
Damn, 85 on CellarTracker is a really high score! Given the $4.19 price tag, this sounds like the best QOR imaginable 🙂 I definitely disagree with the score, though.
Very faint smell with hints of white table grapes, honeysuckle, and maybe acacia flower. Really weak, even if the notes are nice.
On the palate, there is hardly any CO2. Just a bunch of sugar and medium acidity. Then, unlike on the nose, very artificial tasting flavours of lemon drop and agave syrup.
It’s everything you would except it to do and nothing more.
5/18
**3. Original House Wine “Brut Bubbles” NV**
Very large soda-like bubbles. I’m sure it had CO2 injection.
It smells like a slightly sweet Pinot Grigio. I get pear and a little bit of apple notes. Not much going on.
In the mouth, it really has that soda like consistency and a little sweetness. Medium acidity and quite a bit of bitterness. Pear and slight honeysuckle. Because of the lightness of everything, I also get alcohol burn.
It’s whatever. Kinda fun. 5/18
**2. Colli Ripani Offida Passerina 2022**
Really not a fan. Very underwhelming.
At first, smells of cottage cheese strongly. Then, maybe some lemon curd and apple. Meh.
On the palate, it’s really like juice. A little apple and lemon.
Dead right away on the finish.
4+/18
**1. Meiomi Pinot Noir 2022**
I am super excited to finally write a note on Meiomi and grateful I didn’t have to waste my own money. First things first, y’all are mad with the 88 points average on CellarTracker. Just no.
Looks like the wine was dyed (or smth like Petit Sirah added): it’s deep purple and stains the glass a lot.
On the nose, it does have characteristics of Pinot but also of Cab and even Southern Rhône. So, you can see that it’s made from Pinot but probably only if you know that. Grass, strawberry jam, blackcurrant. Dried herbs. Distant earthiness. A lot of clove and vanilla.
The palate is dominated by sweetness. LCBO reports 21 g/L of residual sugar and the wine has NO acidity to back that up. It drinks more like Port than a dry red, left alone Pinot. Medium- tannin, medium+ body. What the hell? Stewed raspberries and strawberries, vanilla, and spice. Do people imagine this is how a good wine should be? Just no. It’s not a good wine but its worst sin is of course, being Pinot Noir. Because just no. Idk why would you want any wine to taste like this, but it’s actually infuriating that someone wanted Pinot Noir to taste like this.
4/18. Just because it’s technically not faulty and nose is somewhat nice. If it were a Ruby Port…
Sea_Dog1969
Barefoot is never really a good choice. Except for cooking wine… because it comes in those convenient little plastic airline bottles.
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Ok-Depth6073
Use it to make Sangria or cook lamb with it with rosemary.
chettyoubetcha
Someone brought that Meiomi to Christmas dinner and I literally winced after sipping it. Shit is gross.
Artfan1024
Had a glass of Meiomi Pinot Noir and it’s the worst wine I ever tasted. Woof
Out of curiosity why do you rate out of 18?
fartwisely
I don’t even bother taking my favorites to Holiday dinner with family. They prefer Meiomi PN or Red Blend. But I did see a red from Portugal in the fridge seemingly uncorked earlier during the day. It was a winner.
I’ll save my good bottles for the left over fare plates the next night or the weekend, all for myself.
Otherwise-Block-4890
And meiomi REDUCED the rs by 10g/l last year. It WAS 30+ at one point (LCBO here wuddup)
_rewrapt
i thought josh was a bad gas station cab, but then i had menage a trois. Straight cough syrup. I never miss a chance to talk shit about it lol
Rodster9
Moscato from Barefoot does what its supposed to do, easy drink at an affordable price, unlike Meiomi it is not pretending.
Repulsive_Mark_5343
The Meomi used to be pretty damned good, but now it’s overly sweet and undrinkable in my opinion. A real shame.
cultfourtyfive
Those House bubbles are GROSS. I grabbed a can of that crap because I was going a place where I couldn’t have glass and wanted a single serving. Went in with low expectations and even those weren’t met.
brohio_
Tonight, let’s let the Josh do the talking.
sofakingsideways
Cupcake did not make the list? 😂
snowballer918
I was gifted a Meiomi Cab yesterday, still trying to figure out if they were trying to send a message or if it was an honest mistake.
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Since this week is the time of the year that this sub sees the most spectacular bottles ever getting posted, I decided to go against the grain and share some of my most disappointing experiences 🙂 Please find below my 5 tasting notes on the worst wines of the year. These are only the wines that a) I have written tasting notes on, b) are technically sound. So, there is neither Black Girl Magic Bubbly Riesling that I had in a movie theatre, nor a bretty Swiss Pinot Noir that smelled like floor mop. I hope at least someone will find this fun 😉
**5. Josh Cellars “Legacy” Red Blend 2022**
Smells of plum, blackberry, and, surprisingly, peach. Jam, chocolate, and smoke. I don’t find this pleasant: it’s ripe and disharmonious.
On the palate, there is a touch of RS yet it’s very tart with medium+ acidity and bruised fruit notes. Wood, bruised blackberry and blueberry. Bay leaf maybe.
5/18 I really don’t like this. It keeps reminding me of fruit that has spent too much in the fridge.
**4. Barefoot Moscato NV**
Damn, 85 on CellarTracker is a really high score! Given the $4.19 price tag, this sounds like the best QOR imaginable 🙂 I definitely disagree with the score, though.
Very faint smell with hints of white table grapes, honeysuckle, and maybe acacia flower. Really weak, even if the notes are nice.
On the palate, there is hardly any CO2. Just a bunch of sugar and medium acidity. Then, unlike on the nose, very artificial tasting flavours of lemon drop and agave syrup.
It’s everything you would except it to do and nothing more.
5/18
**3. Original House Wine “Brut Bubbles” NV**
Very large soda-like bubbles. I’m sure it had CO2 injection.
It smells like a slightly sweet Pinot Grigio. I get pear and a little bit of apple notes. Not much going on.
In the mouth, it really has that soda like consistency and a little sweetness. Medium acidity and quite a bit of bitterness. Pear and slight honeysuckle. Because of the lightness of everything, I also get alcohol burn.
It’s whatever. Kinda fun.
5/18
**2. Colli Ripani Offida Passerina 2022**
Really not a fan. Very underwhelming.
At first, smells of cottage cheese strongly. Then, maybe some lemon curd and apple. Meh.
On the palate, it’s really like juice. A little apple and lemon.
Dead right away on the finish.
4+/18
**1. Meiomi Pinot Noir 2022**
I am super excited to finally write a note on Meiomi and grateful I didn’t have to waste my own money. First things first, y’all are mad with the 88 points average on CellarTracker. Just no.
Looks like the wine was dyed (or smth like Petit Sirah added): it’s deep purple and stains the glass a lot.
On the nose, it does have characteristics of Pinot but also of Cab and even Southern Rhône. So, you can see that it’s made from Pinot but probably only if you know that. Grass, strawberry jam, blackcurrant. Dried herbs. Distant earthiness. A lot of clove and vanilla.
The palate is dominated by sweetness. LCBO reports 21 g/L of residual sugar and the wine has NO acidity to back that up. It drinks more like Port than a dry red, left alone Pinot. Medium- tannin, medium+ body. What the hell? Stewed raspberries and strawberries, vanilla, and spice. Do people imagine this is how a good wine should be?
Just no. It’s not a good wine but its worst sin is of course, being Pinot Noir. Because just no. Idk why would you want any wine to taste like this, but it’s actually infuriating that someone wanted Pinot Noir to taste like this.
4/18. Just because it’s technically not faulty and nose is somewhat nice. If it were a Ruby Port…
Barefoot is never really a good choice. Except for cooking wine… because it comes in those convenient little plastic airline bottles.
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Use it to make Sangria or cook lamb with it with rosemary.
Someone brought that Meiomi to Christmas dinner and I literally winced after sipping it. Shit is gross.
Had a glass of Meiomi Pinot Noir and it’s the worst wine I ever tasted. Woof
Out of curiosity why do you rate out of 18?
I don’t even bother taking my favorites to Holiday dinner with family. They prefer Meiomi PN or Red Blend. But I did see a red from Portugal in the fridge seemingly uncorked earlier during the day. It was a winner.
I’ll save my good bottles for the left over fare plates the next night or the weekend, all for myself.
And meiomi REDUCED the rs by 10g/l last year. It WAS 30+ at one point (LCBO here wuddup)
i thought josh was a bad gas station cab, but then i had menage a trois. Straight cough syrup. I never miss a chance to talk shit about it lol
Moscato from Barefoot does what its supposed to do, easy drink at an affordable price, unlike Meiomi it is not pretending.
The Meomi used to be pretty damned good, but now it’s overly sweet and undrinkable in my opinion. A real shame.
Those House bubbles are GROSS. I grabbed a can of that crap because I was going a place where I couldn’t have glass and wanted a single serving. Went in with low expectations and even those weren’t met.
Tonight, let’s let the Josh do the talking.
Cupcake did not make the list? 😂
I was gifted a Meiomi Cab yesterday, still trying to figure out if they were trying to send a message or if it was an honest mistake.