2003 MacMurray Ranch Pinot Noir

[wdonovan]

Had a distributor trick me with this stuff at a tasting last year. Whatever it is that he poured was quite tasty, closer to a Burgundy taste than most pinots that I've had (don't beat me up on this, I don't drink Cali wines). On this tasting, I bought a case of 03, what I was told I tasted. It was the most awful wine ever. Still green and slightly effervescent. It shouldn't have been released. My wife liked it and wouldn't let me return it. I opened it for her when I was drinking something else, not in the mood for wine, or if I needed to rinse out the Insinkerator. It was true garbage and the last bottle, opened 8 months after buying it, was just losing the greenness and effervescence. The distributor admitted to me at the next tasting that they had a "problem" with this wine. "You should try the current vintage". But... they sold it anyway and I paid for their problem. Why should I ever again buy crap from Gallo? Easy, I shouldn't. I should've known better. Now I do. When I want something that tastes like a Burgundy, I pay the price and get a Burgundy.