You’re browsing the wine aisle in your local supermarket or wine shop and see a bottle that looks interesting. And the back label carries purple prose about how superb the wine’s fruit is.
But not all wine label text is accurate. What if the “dramatic fruit” the label says really refers to prunes? We all have bought wines that don’t appeal to us. What then?
Buying wines that fail to deliver what we want is a sad scenario. It happened to me not long ago with a $30 bottle of syrah. Although it wasn’t very good, I resorted to an old trick, which saved the day and the wine….