As frequent visitors will note, I usually buy $10 and under bottles of wine.  This one was $15.99 after QFC club card discount.  I felt I owe something to Sokol Blosser for putting up with us.  Some time ago I was part of a Clown Wine Tour – that is to say – two limos full of people dressed as clowns “tasting” wine.  They knew two limos were coming.  They didn’t know two limos of clowns were coming.

On the whole, the were good sports about the invasion and I believe everyone had fun, though we didn’t buy much wine on that tour.

Good news – this bottle here deserves a good review on it’s own merits.  It’s what I like in a red wine.  Strong meaty flavor.  Some heft, like it would hold it’s own in a bar fight with a salami and olive plate.  A single sip fills your mouth with tasty stuff.  This is wine, not red-colored tap water.  Yep, this is how I like it.

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Thank gawd that wines as unpleasant as the last one we opened are pretty rare.  God, Thank you! This one here is quite nice.  Mountain Estate, perhaps that’s what gives it the slight flavor of rich blueberry juice.  A taste from my childhood, the juice on your fingers after picking every little berry off the bushes you can possibly reach.

I like the flavor of this wine.  Just slightly sweet, dense and powerful like high mountain berries. A velvety smooth mouthfeel.

The bottle also comes with a practical screw-top cap.  That’s bad news for the cork forests of southern Europe, but good news for lazy wine drinkers.

$10 @ the QFC with their “frequent boozer” discount.

Well, I usually find most wines are perfectly good in most ways, or certainly “good enough”.  Not this time.  I’m afraid a more accurate description of this wine’s varietal would be “half-empty juice box found in the minivan”.  I guess there is a reason why this bottle is on extra-special make-it-go-away sale at the QFC.

Even though it’s attractively priced, don’t buy this unless you’re fond of half-fermented corn syrup.  This is a great wine buy if you’re looking to give up drinking.