A friend was nice enough to bring this bottle of Brooks' Oregon pinot noir over but after seeing a picture of Trotsky on the label, I immediately became suspect. Such marketing techniques are often used to mask shitty contents and, of course, this was no exception. "Hey! I like bottles with pictures of dead guys whose politics I am totally unfamiliar with yet admire, like that guy Che." Case in point. You are the reason fancy labels exist. If it were up to me every label would be black and white text only. Although the wine was definitely a nice table wine, it was not for pure solitary enjoyment, certainly not for $18 a bottle. 3 out of 5. Don't drink it.
2 comments:
After drinking many terrible bottles of wine, with very beautiful labels, I have to agree with you. Also don't buy anything with animals on the label. It will most certainly be a shitty bottle of wine.
on a serious note...I work next to a german wine importer and I have been buying some german pinot noir and pinot meunier from him and its incredible, I never had german reds before.
I like laughing when people buy those stupid machines that look like industrial equipment to open their bottle of sutter home or yellow tail. Or watching them try to open their stupid carlo rossi screwcap with a corkscrew!
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