Vineland Estates Baco Noir 2002

We subscribe to the monthly wine service of the Niagara Peninsula's Vineland Estates, which means we get two bottles of wine a month from them, plus a recipe that the wine should complement.

This Baco Noir had a nice nose--the tasting notes that came with it suggested leather and tobacco, but while Ed will grant them leather, he didn't get any tobacco. Margaret Anne felt the wine tasted "young," which may be the same thing Ed called "a certain tartness, almost sourness." The aftertaste "lingers for a little while, then goes flat," says our tasting notes. (We tasted this way back in October--we've been a bit remiss in blogging-so we have to go by what we wrote down then.)

Alice (Margaret Anne's mother, not our four-year-old daughter of the same name) said she'd only rate this 5/10. That sounds about right to Ed, but Margaret Anne may have liked it a bit more.

The Vineland Estates wine club charges $35 a month, so this bottle cost us $17.50--of course, that included delivery to Saskatchewan.