"It sort of like runs through your mouth like a stream of very sour red smooth lemons."
SOBER
This wine was on sale, so I actually got it for only $6! However, the cheapness of the wine was immediately apparent when I got home and tried to uncork the bottle: the cork split and crumbled. It took the herculean efforts of not one, but two of my housemates, to help me wrestle out this evil obstacle to my thrifty happiness. Also, my corkscrew sucks.
FIRST GLASS
It's... a lot. A lot of flavor. For maybe the first five sips, I found myself saying "Oh!" involuntarily each time. It was like a powerful wave of lemons. It was like a powerful wave of smooth lemons.
I asked my housemates what they thought.
"It's like juice... and then a little bit of cigarette," said S.
"It smells," said D. "...It smells." He took another sip. "It's like, weirdly bitter. I don't know. Hint of cranberry? So. And it, it doesn't like... it doesn't taste..." he said, "you know, like cranberries, but I kind of -- I kind of think of them when I drink it." He added, "I'm gonna make myself a gin and tonic."
SECOND GLASS
I jotted down on a piece of paper, "It sort of like runs through your mouth like a stream of very sour red smooth lemons."
A third housemate, M, offered another perspective. "This bottle would be very easy to drink. So that's a pro! Like, you could definitely just drink that whole bottle."
I agree.
THIRD GLASS
it tastes very... open
FOURTH GLASS
Isn't like, doesn't like the name of the wine mean like the kind of grape or something? The label says "Petite Sirah." Hmm.
Wikipedia redirects this to "durif." Durif is a kind of grape! So that's what "Petite Sirah" means (it's the American name for it). Crane Lake is, I guess, like, the place that made it or something. Follow this blog, and you'll be a wine expert in no time!
FIFTH GLASS
i am pouring it into a flask and going ouuuuuuut
VERDICT: Very forceful.
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