Mango wine
Three things about me: 1) I love mangoes; 2) I love wine; and 3) I love trying out new food products on the market. I was so excited when my husband came home last night with this bottle of mango wine. We love fruity wines and that’s probably why we’re such fans of Boone’s Farm wines.
So, anyway (there is no such word as anyways), we agreed to open the bottle of mango wine after dinner and enjoy it as we relaxed before bed time. He was watching TV in the living room and I was finishing my third reading of Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent (such a great book) in the bedroom when he decided it was time. He came into the bedroom with the wine, corkscrew and two glasses.
The mango wine did not taste like wine. Or, at least, not the kind of fruit wines we know. It tasted like bad tuba (native wine made from sugar cane)–raw, very potent and smelling strongly of alcohol. My first impression was that I was drinking rubbing alcohol laced with rust. Shucks, it was terrible. Indescribably terrible. The strawberry wines of yesteryears from Baguio, at a time when strawberry wine-making was new in the Philippines, was much better even if they contained all those particles at the bottom of the bottle.
Now, I’m no wine maker. I don’t know if the problem was improper fermentation, too short time to age the wine or a simple case of bad wine formula. I don’t know. I do know however that a good wine has body, a pleasant aroma (not of rubbing alcohol) and is smooth in the mouth and throat. Whereas, the mango wine had no discernible flavor nor aroma to speak of and I can’t quite describe the sensation in the mouth. Rusty seems to be the only appropriate word.
If you think I’m just being mean, go try the mango wine yourself and throw two hundred plus pesos to the wind.
Tags: mango wine, wine, Food and Drink,
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Ack, ano ba yan.
alcohol na may kalawang.
THERE is a word “anyways”. it’s a slang word.
A grammatically incorrent slang. Great. So let’s all propagate it then, huh?