Friday marked the return of A and K's dinner party club and our friends learned the hard way that wine from A comes with a price. We started the night while our friends cooked with a red, deciding to leave a white for causal after dinner drinking. Our red was Canada Red 2010, a Merlot-Zweigelt blend from Konzelmann's winery in Niagara on the lake. This winery takes its inspiration from the German wine business and their Canada Red rings in at a very reasonable $12.95 a bottle and right this second it is on sale for $11.95 at the LCBO. Reactions for this wine were both fun and varied. Let's just start off by saying this wine was not for people who don't like dry reds.
K - EUGHHHHH. K stuck her tongue out immediately after trying this wine. She says: It touches the wrong part of my tongue. It is dry with a bit of bitterness to it. it was like licking the rind of a grapefruit. I would never buy it again and dumped my glass out into A's instead.
P - I get the opposite of sweetness in this wine. It is quite dry and I thought it was like licking an ashtray. That said, I still liked it.
A - This wine is dry but still thick. It has a fruity dry taste to it, like raisins or currants, or other dried red fruits. It had quite a tart taste to it and a really fruity smell. There is an earthiness to the scent that also carries through to the taste for me. I would buy it again, being as I was the one who brough it.
K2 - This wine smells fine, but I do mind the taste of it. It has a fizzy taste in the middle of the tongue and an awful taste at the end of it. It tastes like garlic and ashtrays.
G - This wine was way too dry, especially because I am a non-wine-drinker.
As an aside one of our other friends tried this later, not knowing it was the wine that had recieved split reviews, and she said she quite liked it as well.
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