Crane Lake

[Georgie]

I went to make a recipe from Cook's Illustrated that was supposedly Chicken Cacciatore. It had lots of portobello mushrooms, nice herbs that I had in my garden only one can of diced tomatoes, onions, etc. I'd nrver had this dish, believe it or not, so I gave it a whirl. The recipe called for 1 1/2 cups of dry red wine. I found a bottle of Crane Lake Merlot on sale for $5.99 so I used that. The wine wasn't bad considering what I'd paid. By itself in a glass was fine. But when I used it in the recipe it turned everything a creepy shade of purple, as you might expect. Actually it didn't taste bad, but the color was so off-putting we couldn't eat it. The dinner, along with the receipe went in the garbage.