Taste it Again / Lost & Found
Taste it Again / Lost & Found: Red Tractor 2008 Red Tractor + Two Others
08 Nov 2014- Details
- Category: Lost & Found / Taste it Again
(August 23, 2014) ... My weekend of older Ontario wines continued with a tasting of a trio of diverse wines from different years, starting with this Sideroad Twenty 2008 Red Tractor Reserve Merlot which seems to have lost its will to live in bottle, or even outside of the bottle, it's tired and lacks any fruit character and in fact the only distinguishing character it does have is one of wood, which it maintained for about 10 minutes before it became blah (I know, a real informative descriptor).
The next two wines did not fare much better, in fact, of the three wines, the Red Tractor was the best (watch that be taken out of context for marketing purposes). A bottle of Hernder 2002 Reserve Cabernet Franc Reserve, unfiltered, was, quite simply put, just foul ... And a Fielding 2005 Cabernet Franc, unfiltered, had a corked nose, which had a glimmer of dried fruit on the palate before the corkiness slipped in on the palate as well ... Damn.
I have reviewed the Red Tractor in its youth, to read the original review from October 2012 - click here.
The other two wines were previously unreviewed, therefore they fall into the Lost & Found category, and in that case they receive a Lost & Found Rating ... Both get TRASH, but the Fielding one is a reluctant rating due to the wine being corked.
