2005 ZarafaJulie says:
Wine and bandaids. Undrinkable.
Jeremy says:
I know what you mean with the bandaids, but my more immediate association is liquid smoke, so that this is somehow both the first and the last thing you taste, with an indifferent wine somewhere in the middle. I kept trying to drink it, but no, it really is undrinkable. May return it to Trader Joe's.
2005 Toad Hollow
Julie says:
Light, dry, tart. The reds are much better. Disappointing for such nice graphics.
Jeremy says:
There has to be some connection between these different wines with line-drawn frogs on the label (OK, so apparently they're the same distributers), but where Le Faux Frog's Chardonnay is rich and tasty this is thin and, you know, wrong. It tastes heavily of oak in the way that makes you feel like you're sucking on wood at the finish. What have we done to earn such horrible cheap wine karma this week??
2 comments:
Band aid is a classic descriptor of a high level of 'brett'. Brettanomyces is a yeast or mould that results from unclean cellars or barrels. Often present in small quantities where it can enhance a wines complexity, in larger amounts is definitely a fault (tho' at some wine competitions any sign of brett disqualifies a wine). Suggest you stick back the cork and return the bottle to the retailer for a refund/exchange.
I am puzzled by your ref to Toad Hollow as French as the image you use is of the California Chardonnay. Toad Hollow do sell an imported French Chardonnay but it has a different name and label from the illustration.
Peter,
Thanks for the info on brett. I've run into that before and wondered what the hell that was.
As for the "French", that was clearly just my sloppiness and I'll fix it in the post. It does say something about the fact that labels are not vinyards or even wineries, and that what they put out may have nothing to do with oneanother varietal to varietal, and only be generally related bottle to bottle. Sigh.
--Jeremy
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