Kristen and I are relatively new on the wine scene. We really enjoy wine, but I wanted to start a blog to begin documenting our tasting notes. I'm hoping this will teach us to appreciate the wine more by attempting to document our feelings. Secondly, it should serve as a reference for wines that we enjoy and wines we do not.
So, here goes. The first bottle we are going to try is Root:1, a 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon from Chile. I paid $9.99 for this wine, on sale from an original price of $14.99. This wine tastes thick on the palate, but it has very interesting notes of plum and dark cherry (not atypical of Cabs). The heat of this wine seems pretty mellow compared to other cheaper Cabs that I've had, but it has a very distinct oak flavor. This wine also has a fair amount of tannins, which I enjoy. Overall, I'm very impressed by this wine for a $10 bottle. It tastes a whole lot better than a Columbia Crest or another cheaper wine that can sometimes taste very sweet and undefined. I give this wine an 88.
Kristen thinks the wine smells like cherry cough syrup. She says it looks watery, but it has a very robust taste. She finds the wine "hot" going down. Very drinkable. Kristen thinks it's not as smooth as other $10 wines we've had, but notes that it might be due to her sore throat tonight. Kristen scores this wine an 86.
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