...a bottle of wine and thou

Red Dust Shiraz 2002

Price: $10 bottle
Type: Shiraz
Cork: plain Jane natural
Rating: 6

This tastes like wine. That's it. No more, no less. I don't detect any cherry or asphalt or coffee or any of the other little flavors one is supposed to ferret out sip by sip. Instead, this is a plain, unpretentious red wine which tastes like nothing more than wine. If you're looking for an average shiraz, this will do fine. I've drunk far worse.

I picked this one up because I liked the name. I'm all over the new commercial space programs, so a Mars themed wine tickled my fancy. Okay, they were probably referring to the red dust of the Australian outback, but I am free to interpret it my own way. Regardless, the exciting name makes its unexciting cork and uninspiring flavor a bit of a disappointment. I'll finish the bottle, and I certainly won't turn it down if anyone offers me a glass, but it's not one I'll actively seek out again.

posted by Chris Rachael Oseland at 9:34 PM