This wine would normally fall under my “Grocery Store Grabs”
postings, but the $10 price point and drinkability earned it a place in this
blog.
I’m a little OCD about a few things. One of them is my wine rack. I want it to be full. I don’t like empty spaces on the rack. It drives my sense of balance wacky. The result is that sometimes I pick up
bottles I wouldn’t normally buy just to keep the rack full. If I can’t make it to my usual wine
store? Then the grocery store, it is.
It’s thanks to this fun personality trait that the 14 Hands
Merlot ended up on my shelf. I needed 4
bottles of wine after a weekend get together and my budget declared they needed
to be lesser expensive bottles. I
happened to be at the grocery store, so I stopped in the wine aisle and did
some searching.
I picked up this one, a well-known grocery store brand,
thinking I could drink it for the Grocery Store Grabs. It turns out the wine was reasonably good and
something I might pick up again if I need a decent red in a pinch.
In my first taste, it felt overproduced. Let it get some air (a good bit of air, not a
few minutes) and it opens up. It has a
nice heaviness to it, some oak, some blackberry and plum, tannins are
reasonably balanced. It’s a nice glass
of wine for a steak, burgers, or a meat sauce on pasta.
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