Korta Petit Verdot Rose 2009

OK. Confession time: I hate pink wine. God knows I've tried, but I just cannot love the pink wine. I don't care if you call it white zinfandel, blush, or rose. It brings me back to the days of my early 20s, when my folks & I used to have dinner at their country club & kill a bottle of Blossom Hill white zin. Don't shoot me. I was in school at the time & had no free time to learn about wines.

But I digress. I was in CT Beverage Mart with the hubby, looking at wine while he was buying beer for a Wii party (note to my readers: I don't care how calorie- or carb-conscious you are, do NOT, under any circumstances, purchase Budweiser's Select 55, the light beer with 55 calories. It tastes terrible, and this is coming from the girl who used to spend her free money on Bud Light in grad school. This might bring me to review beer on this blog too, but that's just a thought). That's when I saw this bottle. Hell, I adore Korta's straight-up PV, as you can tell from a previous blog of mine. And it's just $7.99. I figured, if Korta can't make pink wine taste great, nobody can.

Readers, I want to tell you that I overcame my distaste of pink wine. God, I want to tell you that Korta pulled out a trump card and made pink wine fabulous. But I can't. They didn't. I opened the bottle, poured some into a wineglass for myself, and smelled...nothing. It was as disappointing as sniffing the Bud 55. Only worse, because I have a hell of a lot more love for Korta than I do for Budweiser.

The taste of this wine was sweet. Maybe not sweet like DiGrazia Vineyard (a local CT vineyard) Anastasia's Blush or Nashoba Valley Winery (a local MA vineyard) Maiden's Blush, but sweet. I couldn't taste anything but sweet and perfume. Perfume like the old vintage Grandma used to wear. Sweet perfume. Now there's one for the records.

Despite the fact that I should've immediately performed alcohol abuse & dumped the rest of the bottle down the drain, I actually drank this entire bottle. Why? you might ask. Well, I'm a very loyal person, and I'm very loyal to Korta Vineyard in Chile. Maybe I was just drinking it because I kept hoping it would get better, but I am loyal to Korta, and even more loyal to PV. In my house, PV ain't ever going down the drain.

Cheers!
Kate