TN: Arrowwood Merlot 1998 Sonoma County

[Carema]

This sucks. Thin and weedy. Dead. Sips are like necrophelia. I will cook tomorrow, a tomato sauce. This wine will certainly be part of that sauce. Although I did read once never to cook with wine that is undrinkable. Quandry. Dump? Perhaps a dump is the only thingt to do.

["T"]

Dump. Why take the chance and ruin your sauce.

I hate it when I buy bummer wines. It's as though little wine gremlins are laughing at me for choosing a particular bottle at the store.

[Beachfan]

Bad wine makes for a bad ingredient.

(This is different from good wine that has broken down, IMO. That can still make good ingedients, like wine vinegar).

[tommy]

if it's got some acidity, and some fruit (which may or may not make it "good" or "bad"), i'd still use it for some cooking applications. if it just plain tastes like shit, however, dump it.

[redwinegulper]

What a shame, I used to like Arrowood. I still have a couple bottles of the '94 Cab, but have not tasted any of there wines for a couple years.