We always want to find nice, cheap wines. Sometimes, though, that quest leads only to sadness and disaster. Especially when Rachel Ray is involved.
A few weeks ago at Harris Teeter, there was a display of mediocre-looking wines listed at 3/$10. That's a steal! These were Trader Joe prices at the Teeter. The Lost Vineyards collection features wines from Portugal, Brazil, and Argentina. They're all blends - two reds and a white - and I think the thought behind it is that these growers took all their left-over grapes and blended them together to create these three.
The radical blending worried me, I think that Trader Joe's delicious wines follow a similar protocol for blending excess grapes from California, so that put me at ease a bit. Plus, there was a sign above the shoddily put-together display case showing how Rachel Ray endorsed them. Why would she lead us astray? After all, her reputation is on the line, right? She makes a living by telling people what's delicious. Clearly, this was delicious.
Rachel Ray was wrong, and so was I to believe her. The white has all the character of that creepy guy you don't want to sit next to on the bus. The one red I did open - the one from Argentina - was bad on day one, not awful on day two after a little air had hit it, and on day four had turned to vinegar and left me sprinting to the sink to spit it out.
Recommendation: do not buy Lost Vineyards, and don't believe anything Rachel Ray says.
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Lost Vineyards showed up in Marietta more than a year ago at Kroger. It was, of course, cheap, but had a following.
The red wine was a decent blend, but the Chardonnay could strip paint off a wall at 10 yards.
Of course, it probably depends on the vintage. One year's wine is another year's goat spit.
Don't drink Lost Vineyards/Argentina. It is a great taste of nail polish remover, it's disgusting, nasty -- stay away. Rachel Ray, I will never take her advice seriously ever again. Gross, don't waste your $ on it....nasty!
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