20 Sep, 2006
Mirassou 2002 Merlot California
Hmmmm...
Home-made pizza this evening for dinner. Marjorie used HUGE hunks of onion and peppers. My eyes are STILL stinging almost two hours later! Not knowing how the pizza would turn out, I didn't want to burn an expensive bottle of merlot, so this Mirassou 2002 did the trick. I bought two bottles several months ago for $6.99 each on CLEARANCE at Target. ? ! Our first bottle was not pretty. The review is below; we gave it a 5 out of 10. Tonight, I thought Marjorie would LOVE this...bright red berry with hints of raspberry, hardly any oak or spice. I was wrong...she didn't care for it (what???) I'm about through trying to figure her out!!! She said she liked the Cycles Gladiator merlot we had last night better (although it had a hefty hunk of oak.) I found the Mirassou 2002 severly lacking in complexity, but really enjoyed the super fresh fruit-forward ride!
Rating: 7.75 out of 10
Mirassou California Merlot 2002
Live from the Smoky Mountains...
Purchased for $6 on clearance at Target then transported to Townsend, Tennessee (in a Comfort Inn, no less) this merlot was bright berry with a hint of mint on the nose. Flavour was bland, bland, bland. Bright plum - nothing else. Very ONE dimensional. Or was it, perhaps, the small plastic tumblers we sipped it from? Whatever the reason, this was not good, satisfying merlot. For 99 cents more, we could've had some nice Little Penguin merlot that we KNOW we like! And, gee, ain't free wireless internet service swell? :)
Pros: Cheap.
Cons: Cheap.
Rating: 5 out of 10