Last night I popped and decanted a bottle of the 07 Caymus Cab per suggestions on this board. Great wine, evolved in the glass and I will definitely purchase again.
On the nose, I pulled something that I have never experienced before: sugared jelly donut.
This got me thinking - what's the most random or weirdest thing you've ever pulled?
Dill pickles. I was at a tasting a couple of years ago and a pourer was talking up some Oregon Pinot. Everyone was going crazy over it. To me the odor was unmistakable and foul. It even tasted like it. Not my bag.
Posts: 1609 | Location: NC | Registered: May 01, 2007
Poop, I thought it was just a Vaynerchuckism (to be sensational and attention drawing), but no. I have had two wines that actually did smell like poop. A white Penedes and a Kabinett. I did not notice this till I had drunk much of the bottle and they had warmed up a bit. That said, I considered both wines to be 90+ pointers. They were delicious.
The deodorant they use in port-a-pots (not the excrement, just the blue stuff).
I just smelled and tasted it in a bottle of Pine Ridge cabernet sauvignon Rutherford 2005, opened last week. In fact, the smell was so overwhelming, I couldn't get past the first sip. My two friends with whom I was sharing the bottle didn't seem to be bothered by it, though.
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Originally posted by TBird: happens to me every now and then too.
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Originally posted by winetarelli: pot
What wine was that? I'm always looking for a good pairing.
someone once told me that you cannot taste anything out of a wine after smoking pot.
That being said, Bernard Levet Cote Rotie Le Chavaroche in a typical year can smell of pot. (Not the smoke, but the herb itself.)
(FWIW: While I support the legalization and taxing of it, I don't actually smoke pot, I just happen to know what it smells like from my high school and college days.)
"What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?" -- W.C. Fields
