IT SHOULD be a wine buff's nirvana - tasting a wine that has everyone talking.
Err, perhaps not.
We refer to Grape Expectations, the two-litre bottle of "Medium Dry White" wine that was selling for $1 in Griffith last week until the wine industry bought all the stock from the Billabong Bottle Shop, the same wine that featured on Page 1 of The Weekly Times under the rather unflattering headline "One buck chuck".
Back Paddock managed to get our grubby hands on a bottle, so we invited The Weekly Times' resident wine expert Paul Sellars (pictured with the wine and yes, we know, his surname sounds a lot like cellars) to give his verdict.
Paul said: "Not exactly a glowing endorsement for the Argentine wine industry. The colour is more reminiscent of apple juice than white wine and the unpleasant, resinous aromas instantly scream hangover.
"In the mouth it's intensely bitter and mono-dimensional and enough to turn anyone off wine for life.
"A trip to the dentist for root-canal treatment would be a pleasurable experience compared to drinking this wine. There is a wide range of industrial uses for which it is far more suited than as an alcohol beverage."
As the Monty Python skit once said of a bad wine: it's one for laying down - and leaving well alone.
