Dan Aykroyd - Discovery Series - Riesling

Origin: Ontario
Date Drunk: January 31st, 2009

g.: We seriously bought the Dan Aykroyd wine. I was kind of embarrassed about the liquor store clerk seeing us buy it, but Daniel took that bullet for me.

d.: He was in Ghostbusters.

g.: Dude's gotta have good taste in... stuff, right? On the back of the bottle it says he was buds with a guy who knew about wine. Credentials.

So:

d.: It tastes like a Granny Smith apple—one of the small, crunchy, juicy, sour ones.

g.: This is really, really sugary, but not sickeningly so. It's kind of like someone poured a few shots of booze into a bowl of green kool-aid at a school dance. It has a really consistent, warm taste. Really warm. It's the only word I can really come up with. Or maybe I'm just confusing it with that warm alcohol feeling as it goes down my throat.

(Dear people I know,
I am not an alcoholic.)

d. is pretty confident about that Granny Smith apples flavour. I probably would be too, if I didn't hate apple skins so much. Apple alternative? I THINK SO.

d.: Even the feeling in my mouth is the same as after eating a Granny Smith apple (the dry feeling on my teeth, too. It's the same).

g.: My mouth is shrivelling up.

Do we like this?

g.: The flavour is a bit too... bold for me, unlike a mild Pinot Grigio (apparently I like my wine like I like my water—TASTELESS), but I think this is entirely drinkable.

d.: I like the overall appleness of it, but there is an undercurrent of unsavoriness there; a soupçon of shivery bitterness.

NOTES:
- We didn't refrigerate it for long enough, possibly.
- There is a microphone on the bottle (and on the cork).
- It's like $15.00, and you could probably find a really similar bottle for $9.95 (IN ONTARIO).
- DAN AYKROYD