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This is a Cabernet Sauvignon from Australia I’d never seen before, it was recommended to me by my buddy Dave in Michigan – if you look close enough at the picture you can see the orange price tag and maybe even the price. I asked Dave what he thought the wine would be like today: “Should be great upon opening, falling off after an hour.” – he’s only partially right<\/p>\n
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Full disclosure, I did have this in the fridge so it was a little too cold when it emerged. I waited 30 minutes before opening and trying it, to give it a better chance of survival. It was under screwcap, so no worries there. But when poured into the glass it was extremely cloudy (unfiltered?).<\/p>\n
Aromas … <\/strong>Oh God, this smells terrible – full on pruney and not in a good way (can there be a pruney good way?).<\/p>\n Taste …<\/strong> Poorly made port … It was nasty just sweet and unexciting – I was ready to dump and try something else, but I persevered, and gave it some more time.<\/p>\n 30 mins open …<\/strong> Ok, now we are starting to see signs of life: Eucalyptus, sweet black cherry, still has a pruney-ness about it, but it isn’t as god-awful as I had feared from the beginning – cloudiness is still there.<\/p>\n 1 hr open …<\/strong> Hmmm … Developing a sweet raspberry jam quality – interesting.<\/p>\n 2 hrs open …<\/strong> Yeah, it’s totally pruney, it never lost that aspect, but it did also develop notes of sweet dried fruits like raspberry and strawberry. It’s old-sweet-fruit here – it’s good but not great; tasty but not fresh; there were port\/sherry-like nuances that detracted, but did not fully take me out of the experience.<\/p>\n Bottom Line …<\/strong> Can’t say either way- it’s not the best old screwcap find I’ve had, but it certainly isn’t the worst old wine I’ve had either. It’s a middling wine that is past it’s prime, but still held my interest for a few hours. It’s gone from “really good” (youth) to “I guess I’ll drink it”(now). Not sure it was built for 14 years, but it was decent fun for a Saturday night.<\/p>\n *Every wine is an education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a Cabernet Sauvignon from Australia I’d never seen before, it was recommended to me by my buddy Dave in Michigan – if you look close enough at the picture you can see the orange price tag and maybe even the price. I asked Dave what he thought the wine would be like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-drinking-tonight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}