The third night of our challenge is brought to you by Nicolas Laloux's Chardonnay. This whimsical bottle featured a bicyclist and a lovely peachy colour. Declared to be the wine for "the Travelling Gentleman," this wine was chosen by bottle alone. It cost $8.95 a bottle and was the middle-priced wine of the three. Overall, I would say this challenge was what we expected in some ways, in terms of an experiment in random wine picking. One wine was good, one was ok, and one was awful, which I think is perhaps only a bit worse than most people's experiences. I don't think anyone has ever had a 100% success rate from random wine buying. It certainly got us to try wines we may not otherwise have bought. It also taught us that price isn't everything, as our most expensive was easily the worst.
A - The wine smelled promising, kind of lemony and buttery. Alas, smell did not meet taste in this case. I thought it tasted like bananas to start with but I got a dusty, flowery aftertaste, similar to rose petals or potpourri. I would not buy this wine and usually have better success at this price point.
K - It tasted like water to start with and alcohol to finish. It smelled light but good, but I'm not in love with the taste of it, which was like citrus and beer. I would not turn it down but would not buy it either, especially not at this price point.
L - I thought that it smelled delicate. It had a fresh taste at the start but I was left with a funny, lingering taste in my mouth.
M - To cap off a review of a wine none of us were mad for I think that this wine has a strong lemon taste to start and a metallic, coppery penny taste to finish. I would not buy it, and definitely would not do so at this price.
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