Chardonnay: Liberty Creek ($7.99)

This is a momentous occasion. Joe, my former blog partner, is back from his year-long government-mandated exile in Latin America, and we are about to write a review together. We are sitting on my porch in West Philadelphia, watching the cars noisily race by. A perfect May afternoon. Earlier, we saw a horse!

It tastes like a floral pattern on a sofa.

FIRST GLASS

"How long do you have to let the wine breathe?"

"I don't know. I don't care, really."

"I like your general approach."

(Joe here, taking a turn narrating: This is a NICE wine drinking set up.  Sitting on the balcony, beautiful weather, glorious friendship restored, hunky men playing volleyball...but it is possible this wine is really bad.  It is definitely too warm.  So we have placed it in the refrigerator.)

Joe's right -- the wine is either very bad, or too warm, or possibly both. I guess we'll have to wait until the second glass to find out!



SECOND GLASS

Our friend JG has arrived! He says, "Very pleasant, goes down smoothly." (He is drinking out of the martini glass.)

Okay, my second glass. In my opinion, it's a little too fruity, a little too sweet, but then again, I don't really like sweet wine.

It tastes, I think, like a floral pattern on a sofa.

"This wine," Joe says, "is like the green light in the Great Gatsby. Semicolon. Let's... What does the green light stand for? It's kind of like Daisy. No, don't -- don't -- no, don't type -- it... Brings out a sense of longing. You see an ideal, so in the Great Gatsby that is Daisy, but in here it is a good fruity wine--"

"-- the platonic form of a good fruity wine --" says JG.

"Yeah!" says Joe.



THIRD GLASS

It's still not very good.



FOURTH GLASS

Maia" I would rather raise children with you than Alex."






VERDICT: Do not buy!