Aquila D'Oro Chianti 2007

Vineyard: Aquila D'Oro
Location: Tuscany, Italy
Type: Chianti
Vintage: 2007
Alcohol Content: 12.5%

Purchased: 12/17/08 - Trader Joe's, Mountain View, CA
Cost: $4.99
Rating: 3.5/10

There is something wrong with this wine. I choose the word "wrong" carefully here; I didn't say "bad." However, there are certain things that you don't want to taste like something else. This wine is a good example of that. If you told me I was about to drink a new Gusher's fruit juice, I would have told you that it tastes great. Drinking a wine, however, this flavor is not what I was hoping for.

This idea makes me think about the whole expensive v. cheap wine paradox. Studies have shown that people can't tell (or in fact prefer) cheap wine to expensive wine when the label is covered, but at the same time prefer the expensive label to the cheap label when the same wine is in both bottles. When you are expecting great and you have a positive result, you might respond "great". Whereas if you were expecting good, and you have the same positive result, you might just respond "good". In this case, were I expecting something tart, I would have responded "great", but with wine, I'm gonna just have to go with "tart".

Maybe there should just be a "Drink By" date on the label....