Scooter Wine Looks Awesome Taste Horrible

So, like many of you this holiday season we cracked open a few bottles of various libations to enhance our ‘Tis the Season’ spirit. This MOD bottle, was a special gift given to us by our great friends Tom and Sarah on our clubs one year anniversary, which we’d been saving for a special occasion.

That special occasion was this years Hanuka dinner.

When I first met my wife waiting for the METRA train I had no idea the cultural bliss I was about to enter by falling in love with a member of the tribe. At my first Passover Seder (what my wife, her friends, and family call Haggadah-Palooza) I was given two challenges; first was the horseradish dare, and the second was the Manischewitz. I made all around me bow before me with my iron pallet as I heaped on the largest amounts of horseradish they’d ever seen fit on matzo.  However, when given a VERY large glass of Manischewitz and told to “Down it”, I was ill prepared for the concord grape jelly current of flat sweet danger and vinegar.

Anyway, my point is, that awful experience of downing that huge glass of the mighty Manischewitz was instantly brought back to me when tasting this Mod wine.  Even Tom and Sarah thought it tasted of “Prison Wine“, but I had to take their word on that one.

The fact sheet from R Wines, describes the Mod Gamay as:

NOSE: Bright, lifted dark cherry, blueberry, and spice. Some carbonic maceration character with a little bit of stalky complexity from the whole bunch fermentation. PALATE: Rich and full with lots of bright, sweet fruit. Unusually powerful for a Gamay. A hint of supportive tannin and acid definition, but the wine is still soft and refreshing.

Bullshit has never sounded so delicious.

You can’t judge a book by it’s cover, nor a wine by it’s label

There is a certain trend or marketing witchcraft that most people purchase books based on their covers, this is also true with wines. Much design goes into both to get you to take a chance on the contents.

Nevertheless, this bottle will, like many books I didn’t like – have a place in my office.  If you would like to taste this for yourself it may still be at places like Treasure Island or Benny’s here in Chicago. Here’s the web site, apparently they have a Bacon Club too. The Grateful Palate Imports