Todays review will be one of those very short ones which is reserved for those wines that really warrant not much being said about them. With that established we move on. Here is another wine that has a very nice looking label. If you knew nothing about the wine and were looking to try something different to drink you would be drawn to the wine by simply looking at the label. This would probably result in you doing what I did .....buying it. Well that would be a BIG mistake (and it was) as you will see as you read on. Lets get started here by first talking about the establishment of Trader Joes themselves.
For those of you who don't know what Trader Joe's
http://www.traderjoes.com/ is. Trader Joe's is basically a higher end grocery store that actually is a wonderful place to shop. Trader joe's carries many different lines of food that aren't commonly seen in the major grocery stores. While their stores are not usually big they pack a lot in them. They carry a small but decent line of organic food, have a nice produce section and have a fairly decent wine section which is of course divided nicely into sections by varietal. Trader Joe's also has a variety of their own wine labels that appear on the outside to be professionally done and enticing. They also , by the way carry the Charles Shaw (2 Buck Chuck) line of wines. They also carry a "Trader Joe's Coastal" line as well as "Vintjs", "Trader Joe's Petit Reserve", "Trader Joe's Reserve" and "Trader Joe's Grand Reserve" (this particular review wine). It should be pretty obvious that they take wine seriously. Today's wine review is the first wine I have had from Trader Joe's so I won't condemn the whole lineup at this time, I will however follow up by doing a review on one of their other labels.
O.k on to the tasting now. The bouquet to this wine is filled with Black Pepper, Licorice & Blackberry. The bouquet was nice and seemed to promise a decent wine. The bouquet was obvious from the very opening of the bottle also.
The wine when poured in the glass was a deep Burgundy. That is about all I can say about it since it was so dark.
The taste of this wine is the deal killer here. The wine had a burnt, peppery taste. Plain & simple, that is all. All I tasted was Pepper from beginning to end, Pepper. It started with pepper on the tongue and it's finish was of Pepper. There was also a sort of burnt taste to it.
Final note - The wine is not good and I strongly recommend you stay far, far away from it.
On the Desert Wine Guy rating scale I give it 74 points.
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