Wine: "EastDell" Black Cab 2010, by Diamond Estates
Origin: Ontario (VQA, Niagara region)
Price: $12.95
CC score: 3 of 5 = MEH
Welp, I tried the EastDell Black Cab last night. The experience prompted me to alter my rating template. It didn't meet any of the categories, really, and I didn't want to over-complicate this sham-of-a-blog with a do-over, or anything that would take logic, or effort, so I've enhanced the middle score to reflect what I truly feel by MEH - that is; I don't regret opening you per se, but I wouldn't bring you to a party where friends who 'know' wine might taste you. Also, I don't feel totally comfortable putting you in stemware, so I hope you're ok with me drinking you from a juice-glass or coffee mug, you dig? It's like dating someone you're mildly embarrassed of, and don't want your best friend to find out about, they serve a primitive purpose and you won't feel at all bad dumping them. But you might call them in a dry spell.
Maybe I'm being too hard on this blend. After all, it is from Ontario and it will not (should not) taste like those ballsy new-world bastards I love so much. It does have some things going for it - it's plummy, slightly spicy, dry, and its not over-bearing - this is a nice dinner accompaniment, less of a stand-alone sipper. Perhaps it's the blend itself I don't love. The company's website states the Black Cab blend ratio is 42% Baco Noir, 27% Cab Franc, 31% Cab Sauvignon, so perhaps it's too much Baco Noir. I guess I like you, but I don't love you. I'll might still buy you, though.
Addendum: I frequently drink wine from tea cups, coffee mugs, rock glasses, tumblers, plastic cups in a pinch, whatever. It's not the vessel that matters, so long as the wine is delivered to the body! The inside of a coffee mug is no different than a Riedel bordeaux glass. Anyone who says otherwise is a twat, tell them to fuck their hat.
The newly enhanced CC Score:
1 of 5 = LOS (leave on shelf)
2 of 5 = GTI (give to in-laws)
3 of 5 = MEH (meh, drink it in a coffee mug)*
4 of 5 = PFG (pretty fuckin good)

So I guess size DOESN'T matter if there's no hutzpah to back it up! -E
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