Marqués de Riscal - Rueda

Origin: Spain
Price: $12.25
Vintage: 2008
Date drunk: February 18th, 2010

d.: *HORRIFIED FACE*

g.: Oh my god, it smells like a garbage can.

d.: It smells like a garbage can lined with a rotten meat bag.

g.: WHAT HAVE WE DONE.

d.: It can't taste any worse than it smells, at least.

g.: This is seriously the worst smelling beverage I have ever encountered. It smells like a litter box.

d.: It's like the worst smelling thing I've ever encountered (and I've buried rotten skunk roadkill).

g.: I don't even want to try it. I'm worried someone in Spain has poisoned this bottle out of random malice like the Tylenol tampering in the 1980s. I don't want to die from a $13 bottle of wine. That's a shitty story.

d.: We're brave. We deserve medals.

g.: I just smelled it again. It smells like Victoria Park swimming pool in August. AND THAT IS AWFUL.

It tastes like a fish tank that hasn't been cleaned in five years. Maybe that's somebody's bag--I don't know. But it's not mine.

Angel's Gate - Gewürztraminer

Origin: Ontario
Price: $13.95
Vintage: 2007
Date drunk: February 18th, 2010

d.: It tastes like water at first.

g.: The first sip was a little rough, but the second was really magical. It tastes like flowers and cayenne pepper, if that makes any sense. And fairy dust, probably. Either way, it's going to take a hell of a wine to get me through Star Trek V.

d.: I think this might be a hell of a wine. It has a warm comforting blannng to it. Not a bad blannng, like so many others, but a good blannng.

g.: If only it were about.... 40% stronger. Then I feel Shatner's directorial efforts would seem much more magnificent. HOWEVER, this is really good. I'm a fan. It's a well-balanced Gewürztraminer, as far as I can tell. Just enough spicy and sweet to make all the floral flavours stand out. Why do I like drinking flowers so much? Because I do.

d.: A time when all you could drink was perfume?

g.: There's alcohol in that, right? Then probably.