Found July 2012
As you can see it was a big tasting day at my house in July (see two previous posts - Caroline and Riverview) ... I actually had a former employee of Kacaba over for a small tasting and we opened a few bottles of older Ontario wines to see how they were aging. He was very excited to break into this bottle because he was working for the company at the time and was "quite familiar" with this bottle. Upon opening the wine was just loaded with VA (volatile acidity = nail polish remover), and this did not seem to blow off as we had hoped. In the spirit of tasting every wine, even the ones that show poorly on the nose, we took a few sips. We found the wine to be too heavy in the oak department and very heavily spiced but it also lacked any kind of fruit characteristics what-so-ever ... it was all barrel all the time. I did a few experiments to see if it was just time in bottle that had closed it up but it never did seem to open up ... what I did find was that a quick sip of the wine followed by a quick swallow made the wine almost palatable, but if you held it in your mouth for any length of time, or tried to aerate it it just ruined any pleasure you would derive from the wine. Over the course of half an hour the wine turned sour and nasty, especially on the finish. In the end the wine lacked depth beyond its dry and woody flavours. Hate to say it, but if you have this wine sitting around the house it's a mess, with no hope of getting better. Lost & Found Rating: Trash
2 comments:
Was the former employee another Michael? Just wondering.
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